He isn’t talking about being a good shot, just comfortable and intimately familiar with firearms, and, importantly, has been in charge of a squad of idiots with guns.

Also, army rifle scores go marksman > sharpshooter > expert, marksman being the lowest passing score.

Also worth noting, to qualify for sniper school you need to shoot expert on M4 qual, BUT we’ve all seen snipers bomb their M4 quals once they’ve spent a couple months on their long guns with no M4 work 😂