No. No. And no. If remembered correctly, FMFM 1 came about in the 1980s; please correct if otherwise. I was in enlisted bootcamp during the 1970s, and excerpts

No. No. And no. If remembered correctly, FMFM 1 came about in the 1980s; please correct if otherwise. I was in enlisted bootcamp during the 1970s, and excerpts from the marksmanship manual, which is the fundamental skill of a Marine, were the first manual, other the the 'red' guidebook, that I read during my enlistment. These original marksmanship manuals were truly good literature. And they were mostly written by experienced SNCOs. It is disappointing, although not surprising, to see some former officers jump into assumptions prior to completely reading and parsing the comments.