USAMU Soldiers win shooting matches
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:56 pm
FORT BENNING, Ga. - The world class rifle shooters of the U.S.
Army Marksmanship Unit competed in the Creedmoor Cup and conducted a high power rifle marksmanship clinic for match participants Oct. 24 to
28 at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility in Phoenix, Ariz.
Army Marksmanship Unit's Service Rifle Team members Sgt. 1st Class Lance D. Dement, Staff Sgt. William T. Pace, Sgt. Brandon K. Green and Spc. Matthew T. Sigrist conducted the clinic Oct. 24, which included safety, aiming, trigger control and positions.
The Creedmoor Cup competition started with an Excellence in Competition Match, in which Green tied for first but ended up in second by one X (an X is a bull's eye used in tie breaking.) Dement took third place.
Green was victorious over 132 other competitors and was the overall winner of the Creedmoor Cup Matches; Dement took second place in the overall 800-point aggregate. Dement won the 200-Yard Standing Slow Fire Match and Pace won the 600-Yard Slow Fire Prone Service Rifle Match. Green and Sigrist took first and second in the 200-Yard Rapid Fire Match.
The USAMU Service Rifle Team won the Creedmoor Cup Team Championship.
Sheri Jo Hurd, a future USAMU Soldier who will start Basic Training Feb.
8 and join the unit June 2, placed third overall in the Standing Match.
After the competition at the awards ceremony, the Soldiers presented a 50th USAMU anniversary commemorative hat and Army Strong shirt to Arizona local Army veteran Ben Wanamaker and Clela, his wife of
61 years, who were there watching the competition.
The matches were sponsored by the Civilian Marksmanship Program
of Camp Perry, Ohio.
(Formed in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to raise the standards of marksmanship throughout the U.S. Army, the Army Marksmanship Unit is assigned to the Accessions Support Brigade of the U.S. Army Accessions Command. The Marksmanship Unit trains its Soldiers to win competitions and enhances combat readiness through train-the-trainer clinics, research and development. For more information on the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, contact the Public Affairs Office at (706) 545-5436, paula.j.randall@us.army.mil or www.usamu.com. The Civilian Marksmanship Program is a federally-chartered, non-profit corporation dedicated to firearm safety and marksmanship training and to the promotion of marksmanship competition for citizens of the United States. For more information on the CMP and its programs, contact Christine Elder, (419) 635-2141, ext.
1111 or celder@odcmp.com.)
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Army Marksmanship Unit competed in the Creedmoor Cup and conducted a high power rifle marksmanship clinic for match participants Oct. 24 to
28 at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility in Phoenix, Ariz.
Army Marksmanship Unit's Service Rifle Team members Sgt. 1st Class Lance D. Dement, Staff Sgt. William T. Pace, Sgt. Brandon K. Green and Spc. Matthew T. Sigrist conducted the clinic Oct. 24, which included safety, aiming, trigger control and positions.
The Creedmoor Cup competition started with an Excellence in Competition Match, in which Green tied for first but ended up in second by one X (an X is a bull's eye used in tie breaking.) Dement took third place.
Green was victorious over 132 other competitors and was the overall winner of the Creedmoor Cup Matches; Dement took second place in the overall 800-point aggregate. Dement won the 200-Yard Standing Slow Fire Match and Pace won the 600-Yard Slow Fire Prone Service Rifle Match. Green and Sigrist took first and second in the 200-Yard Rapid Fire Match.
The USAMU Service Rifle Team won the Creedmoor Cup Team Championship.
Sheri Jo Hurd, a future USAMU Soldier who will start Basic Training Feb.
8 and join the unit June 2, placed third overall in the Standing Match.
After the competition at the awards ceremony, the Soldiers presented a 50th USAMU anniversary commemorative hat and Army Strong shirt to Arizona local Army veteran Ben Wanamaker and Clela, his wife of
61 years, who were there watching the competition.
The matches were sponsored by the Civilian Marksmanship Program
of Camp Perry, Ohio.
(Formed in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to raise the standards of marksmanship throughout the U.S. Army, the Army Marksmanship Unit is assigned to the Accessions Support Brigade of the U.S. Army Accessions Command. The Marksmanship Unit trains its Soldiers to win competitions and enhances combat readiness through train-the-trainer clinics, research and development. For more information on the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, contact the Public Affairs Office at (706) 545-5436, paula.j.randall@us.army.mil or www.usamu.com. The Civilian Marksmanship Program is a federally-chartered, non-profit corporation dedicated to firearm safety and marksmanship training and to the promotion of marksmanship competition for citizens of the United States. For more information on the CMP and its programs, contact Christine Elder, (419) 635-2141, ext.
1111 or celder@odcmp.com.)
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