TC 3-22.9 — M4/M16 Series Weapons
Training Circular 3-22.9 is the authoritative guide for the M4 carbine and M16 rifle series — covering characteristics, operation, maintenance, and the marksmanship fundamentals every soldier must master.
Current edition: 28 May 2010
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M4 and M16 characteristics and specifications, eight cycles of functioning (feeding, chambering, locking, firing, unlocking, extracting, ejecting, cocking), immediate action (SPORTS), four fundamentals of marksmanship, preventive maintenance, zeroing procedures, and remedial action.
Weapons knowledge is tested at every board because every soldier is a rifleman first. Boards ask about the eight cycles of functioning, SPORTS, and the four fundamentals of marksmanship. Getting the cycles in order — and knowing what happens at each one — is a standard board question that separates prepared candidates.
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