{"id":13190,"date":"2011-09-13T01:37:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T06:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13190"},"modified":"2011-09-13T01:37:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T06:37:41","slug":"trijicon-sights-increase-number-of-expert-marksman-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/trijicon-sights-increase-number-of-expert-marksman-marines\/","title":{"rendered":"Trijicon Sights Increase Number of Expert Marksman Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though at one point it was maligned for <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/trijicon-offers-to-remove-bible-verses-from-sights\/\">publicizing\u00a0its Christianity<\/a>, optical sight maker Trijicon has <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/trijicon-gunsight-maker-sales-grow\/\">consistently been praised<\/a> for its world-class rifle sights.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point,\u00a0a recent US Marine recruit training company graduated having qualified using only Trijicon&#8217;s AN\/PVQ-31 Rifle Combat Optics, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/76651\/rifle-scopes-produce-more-experts\">opposed to the &#8220;iron sights&#8221;<\/a> traditionally used.\u00a0 The result?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I can tell you Bravo Company had 30 percent more <!--more-->experts than all of the iron sight [shooters] last year,&#8221; said Chief Warrant Officer 3 Kenneth Kurre, officer in charge of the MTU.<\/p>\n<p>Corns said Bravo Company also had a 55 percent expert rate, which is unheard of at recruit training.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the article even attributes some of the Marines&#8217; success to growing up with\u00a0&#8220;first person shooter&#8221; video games.<\/p>\n<p>The recruits&#8217; training was an experiment, and it is still debatable right now whether the RCOs will replace iron sight training in the Marines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though at one point it was maligned for publicizing\u00a0its Christianity, optical sight maker Trijicon has consistently been praised for its world-class rifle sights. More to the point,\u00a0a recent US Marine recruit training company graduated having qualified using only Trijicon&#8217;s AN\/PVQ-31 Rifle Combat Optics, as opposed to the &#8220;iron sights&#8221; traditionally used.\u00a0 The result? &#8220;I can tell you Bravo Company had [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2210,96,149,2,2209,152],"class_list":["post-13190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-anpvq-31","tag-christian","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-rco","tag-trijicon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}