Shooting assessment that consists of two parts: a handling exercise and a shooting exercise. The assessment is conducted under the responsibility of the MS’s firearms instructor and supervised by an AMS instructor. The AMS instructor will disqualify any candidate who fails to comply with the safety rules of the shooting range or otherwise fails to handle the weapon safely.
1. Firearms Handling Exercise
The candidate has to demonstrate his or her ability to handle firearms safely to continue to the shooting exercise. The candidate should safely clean the cylinder of a revolver within one (1) minute. Alternatively, the candidate should safely disassemble and reassemble a pistol within three (3) minutes.
2. Shooting Exercise is carried out in two steps:
Step One
The candidate has to shoot in standing position a total of five (5) rounds on a target of 45x45 cm from a distance of five (5) meters. The weapon, must be holstered prior to and after each round is fired. There is a five (5) second time limit for each round from the shooting command to firing the round.
The AMS instructor counts the hits after step one. A candidate has to hit the target in four (4) out of the five (5) rounds to proceed to step two of the shooting exercise.
Step Two
The candidate has to shoot in standing position a total of five (5) rounds on a target of 45x45 cm from a distance of seven (7) meters. The weapon will be in the low-ready position prior to and after each round is fired. There is a five (5) second time limit for each round from the low-ready position to the firing of the round. During the exercise the candidate should bring the weapon to the shooting position on the command of the MS firearms instructor.
- To pass the shooting exercise, the candidate must hit the target in at least nine (9) rounds out of the total of ten (10) rounds and demonstrate safe handling of the weapon throughout the process. Only in case of failure due to technical reasons beyond the candidate’s control will he or she be given a second chance to pass the firearms handling and shooting assessment.
- Candidates who fail the firearms handling and shooting assessment can only be deployed to non-armed PKOs and/or SPMs.
