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Yhanks gor pinging this post. My HS was JROTC. We had a championship rifle ream which competeted with seven other HSs in NYC that were not JROTC. Being a JROTC school every student we all had to qualify in marksmanship beginning in 10th grade. We used .22 cal match rifles on a 50’ range. The rifles were stored in school.
One amusing note, while I had scored sharpshooter in 10th and 11th, for some reason I was off target in 12th. Our new rangemaster and MilSci instructor brought me down to try again. He was a Green Beret who had been wounded as an adviser. He had placed his M16 in the range rack. It was 64 and none of us had ever seen a 16. He said “What do I have to do to get you qualified?” I looked at the rifle racks and said if I scored sharpshooter he could let me fire one round from that weapon. To my surprise he agreed. I hit 89 out of a 100. He then readied his M16, showed me how to hold and sight it , and I fired my one round. Very cool experience.