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Friday, May 30, 2014
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LATHAM — New York Air National Guard's Niagara Falls-based 107 Airlift Wing will defend their four-year record this weekend at Camp Smith Training Site.
National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from across the state are gathering Camp Smith to test their marksmanship skills with the M-16 rifle, M-9 pistol and M-249 light machine gun. The 107 Airlift Wing have won the match four years in a row. This year marks their fifth year of participation in the match, which begins Saturday.
About 125 members of the New York Army and Air National Guard from across the state are expected to attend the 35th Annual "TAG (The Adjutant General) Match" Combat Rifle and Pistol Championships Match shooting competition in which participants fire for score using M-4/ M-16 rifles, M-9 pistols and M-249 light machine guns.
Marksmanship training and competition has long been a key component of National Guard training. During the 1800s Annual New York National Guard shooting competitions in New York City and at Camp Smith, then known as Peekskill Camp, were reported by the New York Times and other newspapers.
The state's armories are filled with marksmanship trophies won in local, state, and national competitions and proudly displayed.
Today the tradition continues with a 3-day training event that allows units and individual soldiers the opportunity to improve their level of marksmanship training, engage in healthy competition, and pick top contenders to represent the state in national competitions.
The modern Adjutant General's Match requires participants to employ the weapon used on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, allowing participants in the match to improve their shooting skills and take those lessons back to the other soldiers in their units as trainers.
The match consists of eight timed constraint events that include the use of a pistol, rifle and machine gun - to include close quarters combat, casualty, and nuclear biological chemical (NBC) drills.
Last year, New York Air National Guard Master Sgt. Edward Stefik, of Lewiston, was the individual champion for the combined arms match involving combat pistol and rifle. He also took first place in both the Excellence in Pistol and Combat Pistol Competitions.
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National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from across the state are gathering Camp Smith to test their marksmanship skills with the M-16 rifle, M-9 pistol and M-249 light machine gun. The 107 Airlift Wing have won the match four years in a row. This year marks their fifth year of participation in the match, which begins Saturday.
About 125 members of the New York Army and Air National Guard from across the state are expected to attend the 35th Annual "TAG (The Adjutant General) Match" Combat Rifle and Pistol Championships Match shooting competition in which participants fire for score using M-4/ M-16 rifles, M-9 pistols and M-249 light machine guns.
Marksmanship training and competition has long been a key component of National Guard training. During the 1800s Annual New York National Guard shooting competitions in New York City and at Camp Smith, then known as Peekskill Camp, were reported by the New York Times and other newspapers.
The state's armories are filled with marksmanship trophies won in local, state, and national competitions and proudly displayed.
Today the tradition continues with a 3-day training event that allows units and individual soldiers the opportunity to improve their level of marksmanship training, engage in healthy competition, and pick top contenders to represent the state in national competitions.
The modern Adjutant General's Match requires participants to employ the weapon used on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, allowing participants in the match to improve their shooting skills and take those lessons back to the other soldiers in their units as trainers.
The match consists of eight timed constraint events that include the use of a pistol, rifle and machine gun - to include close quarters combat, casualty, and nuclear biological chemical (NBC) drills.
Last year, New York Air National Guard Master Sgt. Edward Stefik, of Lewiston, was the individual champion for the combined arms match involving combat pistol and rifle. He also took first place in both the Excellence in Pistol and Combat Pistol Competitions.
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