03-30-2013, 04:51 AM
That is an excellent read, Taking back the half kilometer. Before we go on, I think serious students of Infantry tactics, rifle marksmanship, and the training/environment/equipment balance should be able to answer the following questions:
1) What did the US Army Rifle Qualification Course of 1917 look like? (What 3 engagement ranges was it broken down into?)
2) What significant changes in infantry tactics took place in the Great War, and what were they?
3) What organization was formed in 1919, and what path did that organization take with regard to caliber?
4) What three calibers were tested in the post-WWI period in the US?
5) What was the effectiveness-to-range break-down of each caliber?
6) Which caliber did they conclude would be the Army's new service rifle caliber, and what was the outcome of that decision?
7) If there was one pivotal weapon system for individual infantrymen designed in the last century that changed the face of dismounted warfare forever, what would it be?
8) Which Army employed entire units with one type of weapon system during WWII, and what weapon system was that? How did it work out for them?
9) What was the Tables Of Organization & Equipment of the US Infantry Squad in WWII?
10) What development took place in the US after WWII with regard to the Rifle Qualification Course?
11) How many Tables did the 1949 Qualification Course use, and what was different about them compared to the 1917 Qualification Course?
12) How did the TO&E of the Infantry Squad change after WWII going into the Korean War? What rifle replaced the M1903A4, and what duty positions were lost?
13) What new squad was added to the Infantry Platoon?
14) What lessons were learned in WWII, forgotten institutionally, then re-learned in Korea, then forgotten again, then re-learned in Afghanistan in our day?
15) What era followed the Korean War, and what major developments took place with US service rifle requirements and the rifle training program? What was that training program's name?
16) What were the 2 stated goals of the new training program in that era, and did it achieve both of them?
17) Which US ally began a series of cartridge testing & developments based on the previous Ordnance Board tests of the 1930's, and what were those cartridges?
18) What was the US response to these developments?
19) Which cartridge was developed and adopted as a result?
20) What service rifle emerged as the new US rifle in 1957?
21) What other rifle using modernized manufacturing techniques emerged at the same time, and what was the Army Ordnance Corps' response to it?
22) What rifle was developed from that rifle, and what project laid the conceptual base for its caliber and statement of use?
1) What did the US Army Rifle Qualification Course of 1917 look like? (What 3 engagement ranges was it broken down into?)
2) What significant changes in infantry tactics took place in the Great War, and what were they?
3) What organization was formed in 1919, and what path did that organization take with regard to caliber?
4) What three calibers were tested in the post-WWI period in the US?
5) What was the effectiveness-to-range break-down of each caliber?
6) Which caliber did they conclude would be the Army's new service rifle caliber, and what was the outcome of that decision?
7) If there was one pivotal weapon system for individual infantrymen designed in the last century that changed the face of dismounted warfare forever, what would it be?
8) Which Army employed entire units with one type of weapon system during WWII, and what weapon system was that? How did it work out for them?
9) What was the Tables Of Organization & Equipment of the US Infantry Squad in WWII?
10) What development took place in the US after WWII with regard to the Rifle Qualification Course?
11) How many Tables did the 1949 Qualification Course use, and what was different about them compared to the 1917 Qualification Course?
12) How did the TO&E of the Infantry Squad change after WWII going into the Korean War? What rifle replaced the M1903A4, and what duty positions were lost?
13) What new squad was added to the Infantry Platoon?
14) What lessons were learned in WWII, forgotten institutionally, then re-learned in Korea, then forgotten again, then re-learned in Afghanistan in our day?
15) What era followed the Korean War, and what major developments took place with US service rifle requirements and the rifle training program? What was that training program's name?
16) What were the 2 stated goals of the new training program in that era, and did it achieve both of them?
17) Which US ally began a series of cartridge testing & developments based on the previous Ordnance Board tests of the 1930's, and what were those cartridges?
18) What was the US response to these developments?
19) Which cartridge was developed and adopted as a result?
20) What service rifle emerged as the new US rifle in 1957?
21) What other rifle using modernized manufacturing techniques emerged at the same time, and what was the Army Ordnance Corps' response to it?
22) What rifle was developed from that rifle, and what project laid the conceptual base for its caliber and statement of use?