With the 2025 Marine Corps Championships just around the corner, let’s go back in time and take a look at how and where they were held back in 1956.
This copy of the article from Leatherneck Magazine (August 1956) has come our way compliments of our own Ray Del Rio (1st Sgt. USMC Retired) — thank you, Ray!
Reading the pages of the article, it appears that at the time not only were there ONLY TWO “Division Matches,” but the “Marine Corps Match” was held at Parris Island. …Among other points, it’s interesting to read how the qualifying course at the time for the Rifle was modified for the Marine Corps Match so as to parallel the course of fire for the rifle at the matches which would be held in August of 1956 at Camp Perry, Ohio.
The Marine Corps Championships will take place 10-18 April with the Awards Ceremony occuring on 18 April at 0900 on Range 4.
Following the Awards Ceremony, there will be a live-fire event for members to fire some of the newer courses of fire and acquaint themselves with evaluations being implemented — and there will also be a BBQ in the Downrange Club.
