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In 1998, a 1,033-acre (4.18 km 2) parcel of land north of the firing line within the former range is operated as an air-to-surface gunnery/bombing range by the Indiana Air National Guard. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] As of 2014, Jefferson Range is used for UAV training, including tests of air-to-ground strikes.
Camp Perry is a National Guard training facility located on the shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio near Port Clinton.In addition to its regular mission as a military training base, Camp Perry also boasts the second largest outdoor rifle range in the world after the NRA Whittington Center in Raton, New Mexico.
The Castner Range, named in honor of Gen. Joseph Castner, [5] was a weapons test site for the Army beginning in 1926 until its closure in 1966. During World War II, a new air defense missile range became the world's largest. The Anti-Mechanized Target Firing Range provided soldiers experience using anti-tank weapons.
Edson Range is a firing range complex at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, near Oceanside, California. It is named for Marine Major General "Red Mike" Edson, "a World War II Medal of Honor recipient and a distinguished small arms marksman proponent." [1] This rifle-qualification complex is home to four of the largest firing ranges on the base. [2]
In 1962, the station was named Yuma Proving Ground and reassigned to the U. S. Army Materiel Command as an important component of the Test and Evaluation Command. On 26 July 1973, it officially received its full name – U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground. The following year it was designated as a Department of Defense Major Range and Test Facility ...
Meet the man who will lead the installation for the next two years, and hear from the brigadier general who commanded for the last two.
A US Navy warship commander was relieved of duty over a 'loss of confidence' 4 months after he was photographed firing a rifle with a backward scope Kwan Wei Kevin Tan Updated September 4, 2024 at ...
The firing range would also be made available to the New Jersey State Police and federal law enforcement agencies if requested, Quinn said. The Shooters Sporting Center on Route 539 in Little Egg ...