US Army Infantry School - Doughboy Yearbook (Fort Benning, GA)

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.112 PISTOL TEAM plete score of lives including sighting shots at 800 yards, 597 out of 600 at AQOO yards, and 590 out of 600 at 100 yards-a total of 1,787 out of I,800. The closeness of the shooting in general is shown by the Winning of the N. R. A. Pistol lVIatch by our Scrub Team after our first team had lost to the Marine Corps first team. The Infantry in 1922 Won nine N. R. A. individual matches, three out of four two-men team matchesg nineteen National Individual Rifle, and twenty-one National Individual Pistol medals, out of seventy- two of each awarded. Though the value of training is stressed, as being a purpose in itself, ev ery member of the team tries his hardest to win. All are on their mettle to see that the one-third per cent. by which the National Match was lost in 1922 will be on the other side of the ledger in 1923. AK' . '17 ' 1 To 1 T ff-1.-' .-.., 1 ' i lg - '- . ' l ,. . , sau..:1s.r,:'m','f,,?9mc5,'1 ' ,Z ' - ' . :KWES fi59?l3555iY'ffiQfi. 25 -gi. 4, , R .IW , wil GM-H' s 5:3k5s5i:s2iP5liiQ.F1h 7'-sa R 'f 1 61' ' Y 'Hs -5'7'f1' i --'HW' f ' +2 i' i 'A mi i 1 . ,S T7 1- 1 1-4.61 -. fiffswr- 1 e '..1:. 1- .-., . - -. 1 ' '- 'til 675 t

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INFANTRY TEAM ln 1922, as in 1921, Fort Benning contributed largely to the ln- fantry Team Five of the nine commissioned ritle men had been either instructors or students in 1922 and three others had graduated in former years. The National Matches and the N. R. A. hlatches have come to be post graduate schools in marksmanship. Accordingly, larger numbers have been sent to them than has been the case heretofore. The lnfantry al- lowance for the tryout has been raised from seventy-live to ninety-five and it is expected that twenty-eight, the number heretofore allowed for the matches. will be naturally increased. RIFLE TEAM New men are constantly being developed. In 1921 it Was difficult to obtain the required minimum number of five new team members for the National Match. But in 1922 there were six new shots to four former members of the team and the average score Was higher. In 1921, our team with regulation rilles and sights competing against teams With special rilies and telescopic sights beat the record in the Herrick Trophy lVIatch by four points with a score of 1738 out of 1800. In 1922, in addition to a regular team with regulation rifles, another team With special rifles and telescopic sights Was entered. This team made a com-

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OUR CHIEF VISITS FURT BENNING