Advancing JROTC Cadets and Teams Announced for the 2011 JROTC Service Air Rifle Championships

CAMP PERRY, OHIO - Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force JROTC rifle teams kicked off their 2010-2011 competition year as they competed in the 2010-2011 JROTC Air Rifle Postal Competitions.

For the past eight years, the Civilian Marksmanship Program has overseen the scoring of JROTC 3x10 three-position air rifle postal competitions. These annual postal matches determine which JROTC unit teams and individual cadets advance to compete in their respective service’s JROTC shoulder-to-shoulder Championship.

From those Championships, the best unit teams and individuals representing each service advance to the JROTC National Championship. Over 7,700 cadets participated in this year’s postal matches. Scores for the 2010 Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Navy Postal Competitions can be found on the CMP web page at http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/matchResultSearch.cgi?designation=AIR.

Postal targets were fired in October and November, with a target mailing deadline of 24 November. In all, over 23,000 targets were scored between the 1st and 8th of December when all scores were posted on the CMP web site.

The printout for the top Precision Individual cadet, Darren Kasl, of El Dorado High School NJROTC (El Paso, TX), is shown above.

The Orion software also allows competitors to not only see their scores on the CMP website, but also to see precise details about each shot, including its x/y coordinates, radial distance from the target center and tenth-ring score. Orion technology makes it possible to download printouts showing facsimiles of each shooter’s shot groups for the three positions. A major advantage of Orion is that all targets are scored according to the same standard to eliminate many scoring variations inherent in human scoring.

The top individual precision score in the 2010 JROTC postal was a 295-18X total fired by Darren Kasl of El Dorado High School NJROTC in El Paso, Texas. The top sporter score was a 282-6X fired by Courtney Butler of Preston High School AJROTC in Kingwood, West Virginia. The overall top team scores were an 1153-63X precision total fired by La Cueva High School MCJROTC in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and an 1075-27X sporter team score fired by David Crockett High School NJROTC in Jonesborough, Tennessee. To see all of these scores including the top scores in each of the four service individual and team competitions, visit http://www.odcmp.com/3P/JROTC.htm.

Score data and shot group print-outs like the ones shown here for the top sporter and precision class shooters may be downloaded from the CMP website. To obtain a score data sheet, open an individual results list for one of the services and then click on the “Aggregate” total that is shown in red for the shooter whose scores you wish to see. A PDF file with the shot data and a facsimile of each position’s shot group will download.

Downloadable printouts like the one shown above for Courtney Butler, the top Sporter Individual in the JROTC Postal, are available for all cadets. The Orion Scoring System offers precise details about each shot, including its x/y coordinates, radial distance from the target center and tenth-ring score.

The postal competitions will be followed by JROTC Service Air Rifle Championships. The Navy JROTC Service Championship will be on 10-12 February 2011 at the CMP Marksmanship Center-South in Anniston, Alabama. The Army JROTC Service Championship will be on 17-19 February 2011 at the CMP Marksmanship Centers in Port Clinton, Ohio and Anniston, Alabama. The Marine Corps JROTC Service Championship will be on 17-19 February 2011 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Air Force JROTC Championship will be on 24-26 February 2011 at the CMP Marksmanship Center-South in Anniston, Alabama.

Those championships will not only select the top teams in each JROTC command, but they will also identify the teams that will represent each service in the National JROTC Air Rifle Championship at Anniston, Alabama on 24-26 March 2010.

The initial list of qualifiers for the 2011 JROTC Service Championships is posted at http://www.odcmp.com/3P/JROTC.htm.  Individual Leaders by Service.

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