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US Army Publishes TC 3-20.40 w/Change 1 – Training and Qualification, Individual Weapons

After removing TC 3-20.40 Training and Qualification, Individual Weapons for several months to make revisions, they’ve republished it with Change 1.

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4 Responses to “US Army Publishes TC 3-20.40 w/Change 1 – Training and Qualification, Individual Weapons”

  1. AbnMedOps says:
    January 1, 2020 at 22:52

    The adaptation (in appendix C) of Jeff Cooper’s four rules for handling weapons is perhaps the single greatest small-arms related doctrinal advance in 200 years of US Army history, and is the result of DECADES of committed people fighting an obstinate and ignorant bureaucracy.

    However, this weapons-safety “color code” nonsense which someone inserted is a confusing and distracting muddle which will only serve to negate the clear message of the “four rules”.

    • Pete says:
      January 2, 2020 at 02:18

      Agreed on both points. The stupid color thing will continue to be ignored just like the last attempts at that BS. In my experience, professionals have always referred to “hot, safed, loaded-on-an-empty-chamber, or cleared” for closed bolt and “hot, locked, aircraft-loaded, and clear” for open bolt or some variation thereof and we all undertand these things intrinsically. Attempts to do this color thing iot help the stupid and/or uninformed understand the status of a weapon just muddles things and introduces confusion where it is unwelcome.

  2. thebronze says:
    January 2, 2020 at 01:19

    What substantive changes were made?