 Adrenaline rushed through shooters as they experienced the new combat pistol program here, November 7th. The CPP is slated to replace the current entry-level pistol program by November 2014 and will be the program all Marines use to qualify with the pistol. By engaging targets from the holster with a loaded weapon and shooting new courses of fire, the new qualification aims to bring out the warfighter mentality in every Marine. The big differences with the CPP is that Marines currently draw from the holster, the weapons and condition one at all times, and the drills are actually timed from the moment those Marines draw from the holster and engage the targets. Engagements function from your control pairs, hand pairs, failure stop drills, as well as the speed reloads. So it really encompasses all the fundamentals of pistol handling and differentiates from like soul flier and stuff like that that we're currently doing with the ELP. Marines have little time for mistakes during each drill, just as they would during a combat situation. Every engagement is closely related to an actual combat scenario, whether it be a threat assessment or conducting a controlled pair in a few seconds. CPP is actually geared more towards combat, so it gives that Marine the experience instead of just more or no another day at the shooting range. Compared to the ELP, it's night and day. All the ELP is the entry-level pistol program partnership and the CPP is combat, combat pistol program. So it actually gears more towards that combat mindset, that mentality. After the Marines earned their qualifications through the combat pistol program, they walked away more combat-ready, with a qualification less than 3% of the Marine Corps currently has. Reporting from Camp Pendleton, California, I'm Copel Joseph Scanlon.