POTD: New York Army National Guard – Combat Marksmanship Skills Competition

Photo Of The Day – Learning how to shoot a handgun and a rifle is fundamental to soldiering, and here we have the M17 pistol and the M4 rifles in action. Above you see New York Army National Guard Sgt. Trudy S. Sharpe from the 104th Military Police Battalion aiming an M17 pistol during the 44th annual Adjutant General’s Combat Marksmanship Skills Competition at Camp Smith, New York, on September 7, 2023.

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POTD: Night Shots From National Guard Marksmanship Training Center

The definition of a photograph, photo, exposure, or picture is a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on a light-sensitive material. In TFB’s case this usually means a soldier or a firearm of some sort. As you can see here, it’s dark, so the exposures are rather long on the images in this  Photo Of The Day. We’re at the National Guard Marksmanship Training Center, during “night shots” with the 52nd WPW and 32nd AFSAM Sniper Championship hosted by NGMTC at Fort Chaffee, Ark.

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