The History of Marine Corps Competitive MarksmanshipMarksmanship Branch, G-3 Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1961 - Shooting contests - 467 pages |
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1st Lt 20 rounds American Army Bartletti Camp Perry Capt centerfire coach competitive marksmanship competitors Distinguished Marksman Division Match Eastern Division Elliott Trophy event fire match Fisher Gunnery Sergeant GySgt handgun Harry Individual Pistol Match Individual Rifle Match Infantry James John Jones Lauchheimer Lieutenant Marine Corps competition Marine Corps Cup Marine Corps Match Marine Corps Rifle Marine Corps Team Marine team McDougal medal winners Morris Fisher MSgt NAME RIFLE PISTOL National Individual Rifle National Rifle Association National Trophy Individual National Trophy Rifle Navy NRA Matches Ohio range Parris Island Pistol Match points Quantico range rapid fire record rifle and pistol Rifle Team Match riflemen San Diego Sea Girt second place service rifle shooters shooting slow fire Smith squad SSgt Staff Sergeant target team captain Technical Sergeant Thomas Trophy Match Trophy Rifle Team TSgt USMC Ret victory Wakefield Walsh Walter William William H Wimbledon yard stage
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Page 69 - ROBERT D. KING, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (FM) Mr. Chairman, gentlemen, as a member of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, and the chairman of the Budget Committee, and through my association with the Secretary of the Army, I would like to assure you that we are tremendously interested in the promotion of rifle practice in the United States Army. The view of the Department of the Army is that we are engaged in what we choose...
Page 30 - ... Disk, marking: A staff, with a disk at each end, used by the marker in the pit in signaling the results of hits on the target. Distinguished marksman: An officer or enlisted man who has won three of the authorized medals in department, departmental, division, and army rifle or carbine competitions or as a member actually firing on a prize-winning team in the national team match.
Page 195 - Walsh's shooting ability will be discussed in a later part of this chapter, it is...
Page 346 - CMC, Report ... in Annual Reports of the Navy Department for the Fiscal Year 1901 (Washington, 1901), p. 1240. Hereafter cited as CMC, Annual Report. 5. "The Sea Girt Meeting," Shooting and Fishing, XXX (September 5, 1901), p.
Page 369 - Marine must have won a medal in a Division Rifle Match and two other awards from...
Page 163 - representative of the highest development of the art of rifle manufacturing at Springfield Armory.