so yesterday we qualified with machine guns for those of us assigned to a machine gun. As a driver, I am assigned the 249 saw ( i think ive mentioned this before but if not see the dictionary). to qualify on the saw we had to zero the weapon (making sure the sights are actually alligned with the barrel and with your eye), qualify on a paper target, and then qualify with popup targets. To move off the paper target you had to hit the targets 35 times with 52 rounds. since its a machine gun you were expected to hit each target 3 times so a lot of the shooting had to do with trigger control and getting off a 3 round burst instead of 2 or 4. you could only score 3 points per target no matter how many rounds you had in it so it was important. i shot a 37 which was actually the highest score out of our 16 people firing line ( kinda not impressive as a whole). out of the 16 only 4 of us actually qualified on the paper target. Once you qualified on the paper yuo went over to the field fire with popup targets. you had 66 rounds for 11 targets. i got sharpshooter, theres marksman, sharpshoote, and then expert. most people couldnt qual first time go and a couple still couldnt qual at all but its all good.