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This is the official page of Weapons Training Battalion Quantico. We serve as the marksmanship proponent for the Marine Corps.

03/17/2025

Marine Corps Marksmanship Competition (MCMC) East is in the books.

This was our largest MCMC to this year, with 194 competitors, who came from 42 different units.

II MEF Commanding General, LtGen Worth presided as the guest of honor in addition to a fantastic spread of multiple other GOs and O-5/O-6 level Commanders and their respective senior enlisted were in attendance to support their Marines!

- The Marine Corps Shooting Team’s SSgt Garcia earned honors as the top overall shooter.

- 3d Marine Raider Support Battalion’s Capt Hawkins, SOI-East’s Sgt Fiorucci, and VMA-223’s Capt Bailey all earned Gold in individual pistol.

- Both Capt Hawkins and Sgt Fiorucci also won Gold in individual rifle, along with 2d Intel Bn’s SSgt Beck.

- MCI-East’s Shooting Team won the Elliot Trophy, which is awarded to the top rifle team from a unit whose strength is equal to or more than 600 personnel.

- SOI-East won the Wirgman Trophy, which is awarded to the top rifle team from a unit whose strength is less than 600 personnel.

- MCI-East’s Shooting Team also won the Edson Trophy, which is awarded to the top pistol team.

- This was also the first time a MCMC held a multi-part Precision Marksmen (PM) stages to the competition. A proof-of-concept, the stages were max’d out with 30 competitors, who came from the following units: 1/8, 2/6, 2/8, 3/2, BLT 3/6, MARSOC, and MCB Camp Lejeune. MARSOC Marines earned 1st, 4th, and 5th place with a BLT 3/6 Marine earning 2d and 2/6 Marines earning 3rd and 6th places. Expect PM stages in all future MCMCs!

Bravo Zulu to all competitors and be on the look out for your official invites to Marine Corps Championship taking place next month!

02/22/2025

Marine Corps Marksmanship Competition (MCMC) - West is in the books. What an incredible turnout of warfighters from Camp Pendleton, MCAS Miramar, MCAS Yuma, and MCRD San Diego.

132 total Marines competed hailing from units such as: 1st Marine Regiment, 2/5, SOI-W, MAG-13, VMU-1, 3d MAW G4, MWSS-373, Intel Spt Bn, 3d ANGLICO, 7th ESB, 3d AAB, 1st CEB, MCAS Miramar S6, MWCS-38, MASS-3, 1st Intel Bn, 1st Recon, Reserve MTU, MCRD San Diego, Weapons and Field Training Battalion, 15th MEU, MALS-39, and I MEF Support Bn.

- MCRD San Diego won the San Diego Trophy, which is awarded to the top rifle team from a unit whose strength is more than 600 personnel.

- ITB-West won the Wharton Trophy, which is awarded to the top rifle team from a unit whose strength is less than 600 personnel.

- SOI-West won the Holcomb Trophy, which is awarded to the top pistol team.

- Sgt Stotts, from the Reserve Marksmanship Unit, won top MCMC individual rifle honors.

- Sgt Bloom, also from the Reserve Marksmanship Unit, won top MCMC individual pistol honors.

- Sgt Shaw, from 7th ESB, won the top individual night (with PVS-14) marksmanship competition.

- SSgt Glomba, from ITB-West, won the top individual night (with PVS-31) marksmanship competition.

Congratulations Marines. Up next, MCMC-East in Camp Lejeune!

USMC Shooting Team

02/05/2025

Marine Corps Marksmanship Competition - Pacific (MCMC-PAC) is in the books!

71 total competitors from across MCB Hawaii (e.g., 3d MLR, MAG-24, 3d RadBn, HQ Co, etc.) and Camp Smith (e.g., MARFORPAC HQ) participated, with a ton of enthusiasm. Additionally, nine Sailors from B Surgical Company, competed. In a true joint and civil-military operations spirit, multiple Air National Guard and Honolulu Police Department personnel competed as well.

- MARFORPAC's team won the top pistol award.

- MAG-24's team won the top rifle award.

- SSgt Cachola won best overall shooter.

Bravo Zulu to all competitors and the Marine Corps Shooting Team for putting on another great competition. Next up, MCMC-West in Camp Pendleton!

12/21/2024

Marine Corps Marksmanship Competition (MCMC) Far-East is in the books! Over the past 2 weeks the Marine Corps Shooting Team and 120 competitors from a wide variety of units competed in Okinawa.

Next up MCMC - Pacific which will take place in Hawaii, dates below:

23 JAN - Check In, Zero
24 JAN - IMA, Basic Drills, Night Training
27 JAN - Intermediate Training
28 JAN - Match Day 1
29 JAN - Match Day 2, Night Match
30 JAN - Team Matches
31 JAN - Awards Ceremony

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman!

USMC Shooting Team
Marine Corps Base Hawaii

12/06/2024

Yesterday WTBn had the absolute pleasure of hosting Senator Ted Budd (R-NC). We began with conducting M18 pistol familiarization and subsequent qualification. We ended with the Senator shooting the Infantry Marksmanship Assessment (IMA) scored with the Joint Marksmanship Assessment Package (JMAP) and presenting the Senator with with one of the volumes of the Marine Corps Competitive Marksmanship history. What an honor to host a U.S. Senator and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee so he could see first-hand all that our Corps is doing to objectively increase every Marine’s small-arms marksmanship lethality.

12/04/2024

Today WTBn hosted the Office of Naval Research - Global (ONR-Global). The team demonstrated the Infantry Marksmanship Assessment (IMA) using the Joint Marksmanship Assessment Package (JMAP), a program that was created and funded under the cognizance of ONR. They not only got to see the fruits of their labor but also got the opportunity to shoot/experience it themselves! We are the cutting edge of marksmanship lethality and have the best jobs in the Corps!

11/27/2024

It’s never “goodbye”, rather just a “see you later”. Today, WTBn bids farewell to one of the best to ever do it. Thank you to MGySgt Nick Capko for being arguably the most impactful USMC Shooting Team SNCOIC, ever. His relentless dedication to increasing the lethality of the total force is truly unmatched. Yesterday we conducted a bullseye .45 caliber vintage 1911 pistol match in his honor and presented him with the Meritorious Service Medal. Fair winds and following seas as he heads off across the highway to serve as the Provost Marshal Sergeant for Quantico Provost Marshal Office. Semper Fidelis.

11/18/2024

Over the last 2 weeks, members from the Marine Corps Shooting Team conducted a Mobile Training Team (MTT) visit to Marine Corps Security Forces stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba! During this time they sharpened their rifle and pistol marksmanship!

Bravo Zulu to the Marine Corps Shooting Team for their relentless desire to increase the marksmanship lethality of all Marines.

11/08/2024

Sweat in peacetime to bleed less in battle. Everything must be rooted in preparation for combat!

Available WTBn personnel gathered to conduct unit PT this morning, organized by the Barber Activities Center’s Tactical Strength & Conditioning Coach/HITT Coordinator. What a great way to start the day leading into the Vetern’s Day holiday weekend!

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Garand Road
Quantico, VA
22134

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https://www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Units/Northeast/Weapons-Training-Battalion/

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