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Using the laser marksmanship training system to predict rifle marksmanship qualification /

To determine the relation between simulation- (Laser Marksmanship Training System LMTS) and live-fire-based rifle marksmanship performance, 186 Reserve Component (RC) soldiers from Idaho and Oregon fired for qualification on a scaled LMTS version and live-fire version of the Army's standard pop...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Monte D.
Corporate Authors: L-3 COMMUNICATIONS CORP HERNDON VA LINK SIMULATION AND TRAINING DIV, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Reserve Component Training Research Unit
Other Authors: Hagman, Joseph D.
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Alexandria, Va. : Reserve Component Training Research Unit, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, [2003]
Series:Research report (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences) ; 1804.
Subjects:
Soldiers > Training of > United States.
Rifle practice > United States.
Rifles > United States.
Guns.
Firing tests(ordnance)
Lasers.
Rifles.
Marksmanship.
Simulation.
Skills.
Validation.
Training.
Army personnel.
Costs.
Linearity.
Qualifications.
Standards.
Military commanders.
Proficiency.
Gunnery.
Oregon.
Idaho.
LMTS(LASER MARKSMANSHIP TRAINING SYSTEM)
WU633007A
Online Access:http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA415716
https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS94151
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Summary:To determine the relation between simulation- (Laser Marksmanship Training System LMTS) and live-fire-based rifle marksmanship performance, 186 Reserve Component (RC) soldiers from Idaho and Oregon fired for qualification on a scaled LMTS version and live-fire version of the Army's standard pop-up target qualification course. LMTS was fired under either a dry-fire mode or a Blazer (i.e., sound/recoil replicator) mode. Statistically significant positive linear relations were found (and then validated) between first-run live-fire scores and both LMTS dry-fire- (r = .50) and Blazer-based (r = .55) scores. These relations were of sufficient strength to permit development of easy-to-use tools for accurately predicting soldier chances of first-run, live-fire qualification. With these tools, RC marksmanship trainers can implement a competency- based training program where soldiers most in need of remedial training (i.e., poor shooters) can be quickly identified, and the point at which sufficient training has been provided (i.e., when first-run live-fire qualification is likely) easily determined. These tools also provide RC unit commanders with empirically derived live-fire performance standards needed to support use of LMTS in place of live-fire for rifle marksmanship proficiency validation purposes when standard pop-up target course range facilities are not readily available. Although both tools will serve these purposes, that based on LMTS dry-fire is recommended because of the added expense of firing with Blazer without an accompanying statistically significant increased predictive benefit.
Item Description:Title from title screen (viewed on May 12, 2008).
"May 2003."
"Personnel, Performance and Training."
"Army Project Number 2O633007A792."
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:x, 15 pages : digital, PDF file.
Format:Mode of access: Internet from the U.S. Army Research Institute web site. Address as of 05/12/08: http://www.hqda.army.mil/ari/pdf/RR1804.pdf ; current access available via PURL.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (page 15).
Access:Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.