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All Army is hosted by the Army Marksmanship Unit at Fort Benning every year in the spring and is open to all Active, Reserve and Guard Army personnel. Even if you’re not on a team you can register in advance on your own and be able to borrow guns and get a free place to stay on post. All members of the U.S. Army Reserve are eligible to try out for and earn slots with the USAR Marksmanship Training and Competitive Program regardless of their current unit assignments.

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Joining the US Army Reserve Marksmanship Training and Competitive Program

1. Read this entire page first.

2. Host a local Postal Match. Our Team emphasis is training Soldiers and our Postal Matches are designed to teach and validate skills necessary to succeed in current Army qualifications.

3. Compete on your own in competitive shooting.

4. Complete and submit the request forms and memos. List the Postal Matches you’ve hosted along with your current competition shooting experience. Download the Rulebook, Course of Fire Book, Event Template and the forms:
https://www.usar.army.mil/Commands/Functional/ARMU/Resources/PostalMatch/

5. Soldiers with documented competitive shooting experience and that has hosted Postal Matches for others is added to the Development roster, eligible to attend USAR competitions and training events by invitation.

6. Soldier’s unit commander signs and submits a memo of understanding for events.

7. Current team/program member retains eligibility of their assigned slot based on current Roster Procedures. This includes hosting a local Postal Match each year. Development Roster members are eligible to advance to the Main Roster when vetted as per current Main Roster procedures.

Further Guidelines

“I am interested in competitive shooting. How can I get slot in a military marksmanship program?”

When first learning about military-sponsored shooting teams many troops will ask how they can get a slot. Right now, check for updates to this site and visit us on Facebook (facebook.com/USARMarksmanshipTeam)

Host a Postal Match!

Every Soldier and unit in the Army Reserve is elible to host and participate in the USAR Postal Match program. Our Team emphasis is training Soldiers. Host a local match, for your unit or otherwise, to begin. This can be done on a civilian range if your unit or command won’t support you. Make an event happen!

Go shoot!

Your next step in earning a slot on a shooting team is to start in bigger competitive shooting. The best way to start in competitive shooting is to go find events, be it military or civilian, on your own, and start attending.

Consider a player vying for a position on a pro sports team. If he doesn’t already have years of solid background with high school and/or college teams, forget it! A couch potato who was never formally participated in that type of event is not going to be offered a tryout. Why bother?

Yet, you’d be amazed how many troops with zero competition shooting experience complain that they can’t get started because no team will give them equipment or fund their travel to a match. For every 100+ troops with no previous relevant competition and instructor experience, maybe one of them is worth a look. Even if/when you earn a slot, you’ll still have to shoot and train on your own so already having places and venues to do so will help long term as well.

Find out what ranges are in your area and look into attending organized civilian events. Where To Shoot, http://wheretoshoot.org/ is a great resource. Nearly every team shooter has a civilian shooting background and the best way to get started is to simply jump in. If you approach a team having already participated in matches and earning higher-level classifications on your own, any coach will want you to try out.

Military Sponsored Events

For military sponsored events, find a National Guard sponsored event in your state. Even if you’re not the Guard, you can shoot the EIC (Excellence In Competition) events. The Arkansas Guard, at Camp Robinson, is the national headquarters for this.

All Army is hosted by the Army Marksmanship Unit at Fort Benning every year in the spring and is open to all Active, Reserve and Guard Army personnel. Even if you’re not on a team you can register in advance on your own and be able to borrow guns and get a free place to stay on post. The event is HIGHLY recommended!
http://usamu.com/

An example from All Army 2013 info, application and rules from 2013.

Service Rifle and Pistol

Two of the USAR CMP’s primary disciplines (Service Rifle and Service Pistol) are shot as civilian conventional competitions recognized by the National Rifle Association and Civilian Marksmanship Program. Shooting Sports USA a free, on-line magazine, lists events.

Shooting Sports USA
https://www.ssusa.org/

CMP Competitions
http://www.odcmp.org

Download High Power and Precision Pistol rulebooks from NRA and CMP.

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Precision Rifle/National Rifle, ConventionalShooter.org and HunterShooter.org are other suitable outlets.

Combat/Service Conditions

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Service Conditions (Combat) are NATO and Commonwealth events that don’t currently have a civilian equivalent in the United States, however, there are civilian Service Conditions matches held around the world, sometimes jointly with military-hosted events, such as in Canada under the auspices of the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association, in South Africa with the South Africa Combat Rifle Association, and in New Zealand with the New Zealand Service Rifle Association, among others.

Examples of Service Conditions matches:
http://firearmusernetwork.com/service-conditions/

MilitaryMarksman.org is an American service conditions event open to everyone.

Action/Practical

In addition to Service Rifle, Pistol, and Conditions events, action/practical competition such as PPC (Police Pistol Combat/Precision Pistol Competition), NRA Action Pistol (Bianchi Cup), IDPA, USPSA Handgun and Multigun, 3 Gun, and SensibleShooter.org are other competition disciplines. These are also the style events you’ll find as a component of AFSAM (Armed Forces Skill at Arms Meeting), All Army, and National Guard hosted events.

The bottom line is if you want to be on a military-sponsored shooting team you need to be a competition shooter. You become a competition shooter by being a competition shooter. Host a Postal Match for your fellow Soldiers, shoot events on your own whenever and wherever you can, and earn Classifications in the formal shooting events listed above first. You must begin by doing this on your own before applying for a slot. Stay in contact with the USAR Marksmanship Program through this site and you’ll eventually be able to earn a slot.

Tom note: Here is the seventh entry in our 10 Long March posts for 2018, the 4th most-read item of the year, which originally ran on April 23, 2018. These posts are selected based on what’s called ‘total engaged minutes’ (the total number of time spent reading and commenting on an article) rather than page views, which the T&P; editors see as a better reflection of Long March reader interest and community. Thanks to all of you for reading, and for commenting–which is an important part of this column.

The U.S. Army Reserve is facing a mid-grade leadership crisis. No, I don’t mean the one in which only 62% of sergeant first class and 71% of major positions are filled due to a shortage of bodies at those grades; I mean the crisis caused by a lack of commanders at all levels.

This crisis has become so bad that there was a special announcement to the field for all senior leaders to recruit officers to submit for the battalion command selection board as there were 32 fewer competitors than there were command opportunities to compete for. This does not include or account for the fact that the historical fill for Army Medical Department battalion and equivalent command billets in the Army Reserve is around 44% due to a straight up shortage of officers in those branches.

This is not a good situation, and it seems to be headed in the wrong direction.

For years, the Army Reserve has battled what I’ll call the “tyranny of the opt-in board” for flag and general officer selection, artificially limiting the pool from which boards have to select the next crop of one-stars. But we’re starting to see that trickle down to brigade and battalion command boards, which are also “opt-in” due to the travel and extra time requirements of these key positions.

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The end result of having a fixed requirement of positions to fill with a declining pool from which to fill them is not just that some go un-filled and have acting commanders installed. What we don’t necessarily see is that when the pool is slim, we end up selecting commanders who should never be selected to command and who would not if the pool were bigger.

Quite apart from the predictable command climate issues this inevitably causes (a short-term problem) is the damage done to the institution long-term due to a lack of mentorship for the few company grade officers who choose to command as well as the drop in morale and pride of association among NCOs who’re subject to sub-standard leadership.

When you think about it, it’s not all that surprising that there is such a lack of officers and NCOs at the mid grades. Most of these folks left active duty due to the damage the operational tempo of 17 years of constant combat deployments caused to their lives and when they enter the Army Reserve to complete their service obligation, they’re confronted with an increased operational tempo due to readiness demands, reduced strength, crushing mandatory training requirements, and substandard leadership at the Battalion and higher levels, so they vote with their feet once their obligation is complete.

Identifying the problem is easy. What’s hard is fixing it. Some suggestions:

First, the USAR needs to re-orient the incentives that were very effective at getting folks to Command back to that purpose. IDT Travel reimbursement is a great tool, but it loses its effectiveness when everyone gets it, regardless of their position or level of involvement. Lodging in Kind should be for all. Let’s restrict travel reimbursement to Com

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Next, we need senior leadership to support and proactively look out for those bold enough to Command. If I can get paid the same regardless, why should I put myself “at risk” for a promotion board seems to be the attitude of many in the field, and for good reason?

Finally, we need to, within the law, select folks who have their 20 years but don’t want to do what needs to be done for our Army Reserve to retire. Service to MRD is not a right – we say it, but we don’t really believe it. If we did, we’d have an early retirement board every so often that “culled the herd.”

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I offer those suggestions as I’m not sure we can fix our evaluation system, no matter what we try, but until we’re able to have candid conversations with Officers about their potential (or any conversations at all), anything we do is a Band-Aid only. Soldiers deserve great leadership, and we need to figure out how to provide it.

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Chris Govekar is an Army Reserve Logistics Colonel with 28+ years experience in the Active Army and Army Reserve. He's commanded at all levels from Company to 1-Star at home and in Combat. As a Civilian, he holds a Doctorate in Management and spends his time thinking about organizational culture and the impact of personnel decisions. Views expressed are his own and not those of the U.S. Army or Army Reserve.

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