falconer
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Greetings from Fort Benning.
Collegiate Nationals are being held this week at the Army Marksmanship Unit here at Fort Benning. This is due to the close of the Wolf Creek range in Atlanta.
Tension is unusually high this year, due to the whole Iraq thing and the possibility of the base being locked down.
Today was check-in and open practice. Matches begin tomorrow with 50 meter pistol and Women's Air pistol. I'll be shooting Friday in 25 meter pistol for the team championship and individual championship. Also on Friday will be 25 meter Women's Sport pistol. The competition will end on Saturday with 10 meter air pistol and the awards ceremony.
The top ten college teams get invited and attending this year is The Ohio State University (go us!), the U.S. Military Academy, the Naval Academy, the Coast Guard Academy, the Citadel, Texas A&M, Southwest Missouri State University, M.I.T., the Merchant Marine Academy, and the RMC (Canadian military academy).
It should be an interesting week. Navy seems to be the favorate, based on their Sectionals scores with us, army, citadel and coast guard all in doing about the same.
There *should* be more THR people here (dan, chris, ian), but Purdue failed to show up at Sectionals. Shame on you guys.
Things are looking good for Ohio State. The first sign came with our flight number, DL1911. The second good sign was the 2003 nationals t-shirts were red and grey.
I'll check back in with updates throughout the week. THR member and host of American Shooter, Jim Scoutten should be here filming this week as well.
Collegiate Nationals are being held this week at the Army Marksmanship Unit here at Fort Benning. This is due to the close of the Wolf Creek range in Atlanta.
Tension is unusually high this year, due to the whole Iraq thing and the possibility of the base being locked down.
Today was check-in and open practice. Matches begin tomorrow with 50 meter pistol and Women's Air pistol. I'll be shooting Friday in 25 meter pistol for the team championship and individual championship. Also on Friday will be 25 meter Women's Sport pistol. The competition will end on Saturday with 10 meter air pistol and the awards ceremony.
The top ten college teams get invited and attending this year is The Ohio State University (go us!), the U.S. Military Academy, the Naval Academy, the Coast Guard Academy, the Citadel, Texas A&M, Southwest Missouri State University, M.I.T., the Merchant Marine Academy, and the RMC (Canadian military academy).
It should be an interesting week. Navy seems to be the favorate, based on their Sectionals scores with us, army, citadel and coast guard all in doing about the same.
There *should* be more THR people here (dan, chris, ian), but Purdue failed to show up at Sectionals. Shame on you guys.
Things are looking good for Ohio State. The first sign came with our flight number, DL1911. The second good sign was the 2003 nationals t-shirts were red and grey.
I'll check back in with updates throughout the week. THR member and host of American Shooter, Jim Scoutten should be here filming this week as well.
