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Upcoming CMP Events:
Tuesday Night Open Public Shooting
Camp Perry Marksmanship Center, Port Clinton, OH
Shooters, including aspiring new shooters are invited to take advantage
of a new opportunity to do practice shooting on Tuesday evenings at the
Camp Perry Marksmanship Center air gun range. The Camp Perry 80-point,
10-meter air gun range is fully equipped with electronic targets that
accommodate air rifle, air pistol or National Match Air Rifle shooting.
Instruction and equipment are available. Visit
http://www.odcmp.com/
MarksmanshipCenters.htm for additional information.
Dixie Double
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) invites you to participate in its first annual Anniston Marksmanship Center Dixie Double. This new match offers 60-shot international air rifle standing and 60-shot air pistol events for open men and women and junior men and women. USA Shooting is sanctioning this match as a PSA/PSI match sanctions; it is also sanctioned as a PTO. Members of the National Rifle and Pistol Teams will attend. National Rifle Coach David Johnson will present a coaching clinic for all interested persons on Saturday afternoon, 14 November. The match is a two-day event where competitors will fire one 60-shot event on each of two days, 14 & 15 November 2009.
Visit http://www.odcmp.com/3P/DixieDouble.htm for additional information.
Camp Perry Marksmanship Center Monthly Match
Port Clinton, OH
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) invites you and your club rifle
team to participate in our Air Gun Monthly Matches. These monthly
matches take place at the CMP’s brand new Competition Center in Port
Clinton, OH. The competitions will feature a Junior Air Rifle
3x20, NMAR 3x20, 60 Shots Air Rifle Standing, 60 Shots Air Pistol and 30
shots Novice Prone and Benchrest. The next Camp Perry (Ohio) match is 21 November. Visit
http://www.odcmp.com/
MarksmanshipCenters.htm for more information and on-line
registration.
2009 Gary Anderson Invitational
Anniston, AL
You and your shooters are cordially invited to participate in the 2009
Gary Anderson Invitational, one of the major junior shooting
championships in the country. The invitational offers three-position air
rifle competition for middle and high school individuals and teams in
both precision and sporter class divisions. Both divisions will have
awards for competitors who fire the top individual and team scores.
There will also be special awards for the best new shooters and junior
varsity teams. The winning precision and sporter teams will receive
trophy plaques and have their team information engraved on the Gary
Anderson Invitational Trophy. The top three sporter and precision teams
will also receive cash awards of $500, $300 and $200 respectively.
Medals will be awarded to the top 25 open and top 15 new shooters in
both the sporter and precision classes. Every shooter and team,
regardless of the type of equipment they use or their level of
experience, will have an opportunity to compete for awards in a truly
high quality competition on one of the finest air gun shooting
facilities in the world. This Excellence-in-Competition championship is
one that every team should attend—we sincerely hope you and your team
will join us in Anniston in December for a great competition.
Visit
http://www.odcmp.com/3P/GAI.htm for more information and on-line
registration.
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MORE CAMP PERRY IMPROVEMENTS
By Gary Anderson, DCM
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Construction on the new Camp Perry barracks began shortly after the 2009 National Matches.
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Two Ohio National Guard ceremonies on 13 October, one a Dedication Ceremony and one a Groundbreaking Ceremony, highlighted the most recent endeavors to make additional improvements to Camp Perry, which is the home of the National Matches and CMP North Headquarters. A photovoltaic solar field that is now producing power for the Camp Perry Training Center was dedicated and ground was broken for a new barracks that will provide housing for both National Guard Soldiers and National Matches competitors.
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Ohio public officials poised to pull a ceremonial switch to activate the Camp Perry solar energy field included (l. to r.) Major General A. J. Feucht, Assistant Adjutant General Air, Ohio National Guard; Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur; Major General Greg Wayt, Adjutant General of Ohio; Deborah Hymore-Tester, Mayor of Port Clinton, Ohio; Jim Sass, Ottawa County Commissioner; Wes Fahrbach, representative of Ohio Senator George Voinovich.
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Honored guests at the two events included Representative Marcy Kaptur (9th Congressional District of Ohio) and Major General Greg Wayt, the Adjutant General of Ohio. A number of state and local officials also attended. Camp Perry lies in Rep. Kaptur’s Congressional District and her support was instrumental in obtaining federal funding for both projects. MG Wayt’s leadership has been pivotal in initiating what is now a long series of Camp Perry improvements and in obtaining the funding to complete these projects.
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Major General Wayt, Adjutant General of Ohio, spoke during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Camp Perry barracks.
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The $3.37 million solar energy power generation field, which was under construction during the 2009 National Matches, was completed in August 2009 and is now generating power to supply Camp Perry needs. MG Wayt reported that the solar power generator has already substantially reduced Camp Perry utility bills. During the dedication, Rep. Kaptur spoke about her vision to transform northwest Ohio into an alternative energy leader and how the Camp Perry solar field is a major part of that effort.
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Rep. Kaptur and MG Wayt join with other Ohio public officials in a ceremonial ground breaking for the new Camp Perry barracks.
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Construction on the new barracks has just begun. Completion is scheduled before the 2010 National Matches. This $2.0 million project will provide a 9,340 square foot, two-story facility with 70 rooms that can house Soldiers two to a room and competitors four to a room. By design, the barracks rooms will be 16x16 feet, the same size as the present Camp Perry huts. The new barracks are part of a long-range plan to replace almost all of the World War II era Camp Perry huts, except for a small number that will be designated for historical preservations purposes.
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