Paratroopers Learn Advanced Marksmanship Techniques on Fort Bragg

Department of Defense Photo Essay

  • An instructor, center, teaches advanced rifle marksmanship techniques to a paratrooper on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 9, 2013. The paratrooper is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. Th civilian instructors, who have served in the military, have the soldiers strip down to T-shirts and fighting load carriers during the first day on the range to enable them to become comfortable with the weapons, scopes and night vision devices before training in full gear. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
  • Jeff Haskell, right, an nstructor, teaches advanced rifle marksmanship techniques to paratroopers on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 9, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
  • Paratroopers practice targeting through thermal imaging scopes during a four-day, advanced rifle marksmanship course on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 9, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
  • An advanced rifle marksmanship instructor, left, cleans the barrel of a paratrooper’s M4 carbine with a bore snake before a night training exercise on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 10, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
  • Army Staff Sgt. Joseph Deuhning loads man-marker rounds into a magazine for his M4 carbine before a marksmanship training exercise on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 10, 2013. Deuhning, a squad leader, is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. The man-marker rounds allow soldiers to safely shoot at night while training to use various thermal and night-vision devices. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
  • An advanced rifle marksmanship instructor prepares a mobile target before conducting night training with paratroopers on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 10, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
  • An advanced rifle marksmanship instructor prepares targets inside a building before conducting night training with paratroopers on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 10, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
  • An advanced rifle marksmanship instructor, left, walks with a paratrooper as he learns to use a thermal imaging scope at night during a four-day course on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 10, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
  • An advanced rifle marksmanship instructor, right, walks with a paratrooper as he learns to use a thermal-imaging scope at night during a four-day course on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 10, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
  • Nate Derewecki, an advanced rifle marksmanship instructor, left, teaches a paratrooper to use a thermal-imaging scope at night during a four-day course on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 10, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod