law enforcement organizations and the National Rifle Association (NRA) award marksmanship qualification badges to those involved in law enforcement. For non-military personnel, different U.S. However, marksmanship medals and/or marksmanship ribbons are awarded by the U.S. Marine Corps are the only military services that award marksmanship qualification badges. military badge or a civilian badge which is awarded to personnel upon successful completion of a weapons qualification course (known as marksmanship qualification badges) or high achievement in an official marksmanship competition (known as marksmanship competition badges). In the United States (U.S.), a marksmanship badge is a U.S. Marine Corps service uniform from left–to–right: Distinguished Marksman Badge, Distinguished Pistol Shot Badge, and the Inter-Division Pistol Competition Badge. For more on the CMP, see are three marksmanship competition badges on a U.S. You’re teaching younger kids stuff they won’t learn for another 10 years at school.”įor more on the White Oak Rod & Gun Club, see. “Gun safety, what to do if you find a firearm, how to unload it, discipline, physics, meditation from relaxing your breathing before you shoot. “It instills lifelong values,” Pritz said. on the second Sunday of each month, except for May, at the club’s range, 600 Skellytown Road, North Huntingdon. The club also offers the use of its M1 Garand rifles and ammunition for a $25 fee.ĬMP shoots are at 9 a.m. The cost is $3 for the club’s 315 members and $5 for nonmembers. In 2009, Hempfield graduate Lucas Boord won the National Rimfire Sporter Championship, one of the wide variety of CMP competitions held at Camp Perry.Īt the White Oak club’s monthly CMP program, participants can opt for marksmanship practice at 100 or 200 yards, using four rounds to sight in their weapons, then firing 10 rapid-fire rounds and 10 slow-fire rounds while prone, followed by 10 rounds of hand slow firing. They can also enter the CMP’s National Trophy Matches, held at Camp Perry in Ohio.ĬMP participants from Western Pennsylvania have done the state proud: In 2015, Matthew Lovre of Penn Township won the President’s 100, an honor given to the top 100 shooters at the Camp Perry competitions, and set what was then a national record for his aggregate score during the President’s 100 Match Shoot Off. Participants can qualify for the opportunity to purchase government-surplus rifles such as the M1 Garand at CMP stores, one of which is in Port Clinton, Ohio.

Civilian marksmanship program history