Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Grundy, currently attached to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, receives marksmanship coaching from Ray Arredondo, a coach in the Army Marksmanship Unit International Pistol Team, at the Weapons Training Battalion’s indoor pistol range here June 20.

‘‘It’s a different type of sporting event for a different type of athlete,” said Chief Warrant Officer 3 Martin Dankanich, the chief range officer for Weapons Training Battalion. ‘‘They are so valuable, so viable as warriors,” he said.

‘‘Marksmanship has therapeutic value,” explained Ross Colquhoun, firearms training assistant at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, who helped organize the trip to Quantico for the two soldiers. ‘‘It shows ‘I can still do this.’”

‘‘I’ve liked to shoot ever since I was knee-high to a grasshopper,” explained Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Grundy, a Williamsburg, Va. native, currently attached to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and formerly of the 82nd Airborne Division.

Grundy served three tours in Iraq and was wounded in the face in the Diyala Province on his last tour, losing the use of his left eye. This wound has not, however, prevented him from enjoying his passion for marksmanship.

‘‘I like any kind of marksmanship sport, whether it be pistols, rifles, or carbines,” said Grundy, who also hunts with a crossbow.

Specialist Brian Wagner, hailing from Exeter, Calif., also attached to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and formerly of the 95th Military Police Battalion, has likewise continued his passion for marksmanship and hunting since losing his right leg below the knee in Baghdad.

‘‘I’ve shot all my life,” said Wagner, ‘‘I’ve been a hunter since I was six-years old.”

The course of fire at Weapons Training Battalion’s indoor pistol range consisted of aiming at four sets of targets from a distance of 10 meters, but instead of using the service-standard M9 handgun, the two soldiers used special compressed air pistols that expelled an hourglass shaped pellet instead of a bullet.

This different kind of firearm required adjustments in the soldiers’ firing stance as each air pistol’s handgrip was made to accommodate only one of the shooter’s hands. Keeping a steady shooting arm was therefore more challenging, but the two soldiers also noticed the weapon’s other qualities.

‘‘It’s a finely tuned pistol ... a marksmanship machine,” Grundy said.

‘‘It’s a lot different than what I am used to,” Wagner said. ‘‘There’s no recoil and it has a decent trigger pull.”

Both soldiers received pointers and instructions in improving their marksmanship by members of the AMU International Pistol Team, which is an all active-duty, all enlisted group that competes across the globe in marksmanship and has won 20 Olympic Gold Medals and 40 World Championships since 1956, according to Sgt. 1st Class Rick Merrill, the staff noncommissioned officer in charge of the team.

Merrill described the healing value of marksmanship. ‘‘Get out there, there are still athletics to do,” he said of Wounded Warriors.

‘‘Pistol marksmanship is a sporting event that can be accomplished by a person no matter their size or age,” agreed Ray Arredondo, a coach on the AMU.

Before leaving, the AMU members distributed their contact information to the two soldiers if they were ever to become interested in trying out for the AMU and competing at an Olympic level.

‘‘It would be cool, I’m interested,” said Wagner.

Dankanich described the day’s event as ‘‘Another friendship (between the Army and the Marine Corps) that will continue.”