[Austin Willard Wright]

You don't care!? Obviously, no factual information matters to you. His military record was contradictory. Heck, I'm a pretty good chess player but I have my off days too. Oswald might have too. Do you think his brother lied?

[Shooter 2.5]

Oswald was a Sharpshooter. That means that half the Marine Corps is supposed to be lousy shots.

I can hear the D.I right now:

"All of you pansies can't shoot so we're going to give you a shortened course of less than a hundred yards. Don't worry about passing. You can miss one third of your shots."

Go Army!!

[Leatherneck_MT]

Obviously you haven't followed or looked at anything I have posted before. So before you come in here and start accusing me of being oblivious to FACTS, maybe you should go back and read them.

There are NO factual contradictions in LHO's Military Record. If there are then point them out. Line and Verse please.

The man was NOT a skilled marksman. He couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with a bull fiddle on his initial Qual day.

On his brothers assertation that he was a "good shot". I PROFESSIONALLY disagree with him. I trained Marine Riflemen, I know what kind of shot Oswald was from his military record.

The man was a marginal shot at best. Period.

Did his brother Lie? I don't now, I don't care. The reason I don't care is because his record (Lee's) speaks for itself. THAT is THE fact in this case. It's on record with the Military and has never been changed. It never WILL be changed. His brother can change his testimony at any time he so chooses. The Military record will not change under any circumstances.

[Shooter 2.5]

Based on the general Marine Corps ratings, Lt. Col. A. G. Folsom, Jr., head, Records Branch, Personnel Department, Headquarters US. Marine Corps, evaluated the sharpshooter qualification as a "fairly good shot" and a low marksman rating as a "rather poor shot." When asked to explain the different scores achieved by Oswald on the two occasions when he fired for record, Major Anderson said:

...when he fired that [212] he had just completed a very intensive preliminary training period. He had the services of an experienced highly trained coach. He had high motivation. He had presumably a good to excellent rifle and good ammunition. We have nothing here to show under what conditions the B course was fired. It might well have been a bad day for firing the riflewindy, rainy, dark. There is little probability that he had a good, expert coach, and he probably didn't have as high a motivation because he was no longer in recruit training and under the care of the drill instructor. There is some possibility that the rifle he was firing might not have been as good a rifle as the rifle that he was firing in his A course firing, because [he] may well have carried this rifle for quite some time, and it got banged around in normal usage.

Major Anderson concluded:

I would say that as compared to other Marines receiving the same type of training, that Oswald was a good shot, somewhat better than or equal tobetter than the average let us say. As compared to a civilian who had not received this intensive training, he would be considered as a good to excellent shot.

When Sergeant Zahm was asked whether Oswald's Marine Corps training would have made it easier to operate a rifle with a four-power scope, he replied:

Based on that training, his basic knowledge in sight manipulation and trigger squeeze and what not, I would say that he would be capable of sighting that rifle in well, firing it, with 10 rounds.

After reviewing Oswald's marksmanship scores, Sergeant Zahm concluded:

I would say in the Marine Corps he is a good shot, slightly above average, and as compared to the average male of his age throughout the civilian, throughout the United States, that he is an excellent shot.

Ouch, now the members of the Marine Corps are not only lousy shots but they're liars too.