Posted on 04/20/2015 9:32:58 AM PDT by george76
Target shooters at the 27 1/4 Road range could find themselves with military company about four times a year.
Soldiers with Company C of 1st Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, headquartered in Grand Junction, will qualify at the range in the use of small arms, under an agreement with the Colorado National Guard and the Bureau of Land Management.
Charlie Company soldiers now qualify on arms smaller than an M 240 Bravo — a machine gun — at a range in Fort Carson.
“It’s a five-hour bus ride in good weather and a $5,000 round-trip proposition,” said Lt. Col. Brey Hopkins, commander of the 1st Battalion, 157th Regiment.
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Training in Grand Junction not only will keep troops closer to home and reduce risk and cost, it also will allow the public to become more familiar with the unit.
The first scheduled use will be in August, which will be treated as an open house, Hopkins said, with static displays and the opportunity to meet with soldiers and see the weapons systems being fired.
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We’ll be kind of like the Boy Scouts in that we’ll leave the range in much better shape than when we found it,” Hopkins said, “We’ll pick up and there will be no brass casings left on the ground.”
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I would have no problem with the National Guard, but the BLM is a deal with the devil.
Who gets the brass, sounds like a good time to show up with 5 gallon buckets.
Looks like they'll police their brass.
In the Army you have to return 90% of the brass, by weight, that you sign out.
When I was in the Guard, we ALWAYS policed our brass after shooting.
There was a time back before 1968 when anyone who wanted the brass was allowed to keep it. All other brass was turned in. I got many a case for reloading from the Master-at-arms when I was given handgun training at the Airbase.
Then Bobby Kennedy got shot and hysteria gripped the USA. From that time on the Sargent in charge was not allowed to give out free brass and all that was used at the interior range had to be accounted for.
So I started scrounging at the local military rifle range. Most of that had to be turned in, but I still found lots of 5.56MM and .30 M1 carbine brass.
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