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35. If you're not combat arms, you go once a year

Very few of the ranges on an Army base are certified for live fire and even fewer are set up the way they need to be for rifle qualification*, so it's very hard to get time on one. IIRC the infantry qualifies twice per year, once on Expert Infantryman's Badge testing day and again six months later; everyone else gets to go to the range once a year.

* The most entertaining range I ever saw was the one at Camp Humphreys, Korea. It's a 25-meter tunnel target range that lies under the approach to Desiderio Army Airfield. It has a berm you fire into, and on the other side of it is a massive rice paddy....which, of course, belongs to a Korean farmer. We bought the fifteen feet of the farmer's paddy that runs beside the berm, and turned it into a dirt road. When you go to Range Control to open that range they give you, in addition to all the normal things any range operator needs, four PRC-77 radios and eight batteries. One radio goes to the range safety officer. One goes to someone watching the road. One is operated by someone watching the end of the runway, and the fourth to someone looking 180 degrees from the runway. Those troops call cease-fire if they see any incursions into the range...and they see a LOT of incursions.