SSG Brandon Green, the 2010 Inteservice Rifle overall individual champion
10-man team champions and coaches/captains
Sportsmanship at the conclusion of the match
Posted on 08/07/2010 6:13:29 PM PDT by smokingfrog
QUANTICO, Va.: Soldiers with the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit's Service Rifle team braved the heat and stiff competition and came out on top at the 49th Interservice Rifle Championships.
With their accomplishment, the USAMU enabled the Army to complete a sweep of all interservice marksmanship championships in 2010 -Soldiers and teams from the USAMU previously won the shotgun and pistol interservice competitions, as a team and individually.
"We know that the Army expects us to be the best," said Lt. Col. Daniel Hodne, commander of the USAMU. "The USAMU's service rifle section has maintained a cumulative string of victories at the interservice rifle championships since 1995, when the USAMU custom firearms shop introduced the accurized M16A2/A4, which replaced the M14, as the USAMU service rifle for competition."
The USAMU won the coveted 10-man Interservice Rifle team championship match.
USAMU teams also won the Marine Corps Combat Development Command Commanding General Match and the 1,000-yard team match in both the service rifle and match rifle categories, setting a new match record in the service rifle category.
Individually, Staff Sgt. Brandon Green was the big winner during the week. He won six championships, including the overall individualchampionship - his second time winning the prestigious title. He also won the Coast Guard match, the Marine Corps match, the 600-yard match rifle, the 1,000-yard match rifle, and the match rifle individual long-range championship.
The importance of the USAMU's gunsmith's efforts to enhance the performance of the M16 should not be understated, said Hodne. That expertise and the lessons learned went into the unique Squad Designated Marksman Rifles designed by the USAMU to enhance the lethality of the warfighter.
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10-man team champions and coaches/captains
Sportsmanship at the conclusion of the match
I'm sure my husband (Army Reservist and former GA Tech rifle team member) will be Emailing this to USMC son.
With a neener-neener on the side . . . .
LOL
God Bless our guys, they are the best!
I’m a former U of Akron rifle team memeber!
Hold that neener-neener until after the scores are posted for the National Matches at Camp Perry, if you would. In particular, those for the 800/900/1000 yard Palma Matches on 17 august [individual] and 18 August [team]
The whole family's Army except for one g-great uncle who was with Dewey at Manila Bay, son just had to be different. So we have to get our digs in when we can.
went to school with Hodne...good guy
Neener~Neener~Nenner!!! Give em’ a shotgun!!! (marching like an Egyptian),,,BWwahahahah!,,,;0) I bet Lông Trắng is laffin’ too,,, Semper Fi from the Green Army...;0)
Alright!
Yea, but it took the Army ten guys to beat a single Marine.
Go Army, beat...everybody!
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