{"id":20019,"date":"2010-08-05T08:46:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T12:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20019"},"modified":"2010-08-05T08:46:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T12:46:06","slug":"speaking-of-quantico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20019","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Quantico&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cavscouts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/army-news\/army-shooters-sweep-championship-.html?col=1186032369115\">sent us a link to this article<\/a> about the Army Marksmanship Unit sweeping the Interservice Rifle Championships at Quantico this week;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We know that the Army expects us to be the best,&#8221; said Lt. Col. Daniel Hodne, commander of the USAMU. &#8220;The USAMU&#8217;s service rifle section has maintained a cumulative string of victories at the interservice rifle championships since 1995, when the USAMU custom firearms shop introduced the accurized M16A2\/A4, which replaced the M14, as the USAMU service rifle for competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The USAMU won the coveted 10-man Interservice Rifle team championship match.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was offered a slot on the XVIIIth Airborne Corps&#8217; .45 pistol team (only about 30 years ago), but turned it down because I like being a recon squad leader more. Sometimes I regret the decision, but what other choice would a young 24-year-old buck sergeant in the 82d make?<\/p>\n<p>But for the time I spent training with the pistol team, I know it&#8217;s grueling work and the training is tough and I send my sincere congratulations to those sharpshooters of the AMU. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaac.army.mil\/amu\/\">Here&#8217;s more information on the AMU<\/a>, if you&#8217;re curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cavscouts sent us a link to this article about the Army Marksmanship Unit &hellip; <a title=\"Speaking of Quantico&#8230;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20019\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaking of Quantico&#8230;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}