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I Marksman Doesn't Flinch on
Trigger, Says: General;
j Advises Knotting Rifle
CAMP ADAIR Rifles are cracking on i the range. The
cadre, consisting mostly of officers and non-coms, started prac
tice in October with Brig. Gen. Claudius M. Easley, of the 96th
infantry division, in charge. ..... ,1 ; . t
Marksmen will know what that means. It means that the job
of training is in the bands of an ' -f
CoL 11. M. Monroe, chief of
staff. 9th dirisloa Jesten-
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Col Michael
tenMIUer photo.
officer whose own lecord sup
ports his declaration that this
new division will earn the name
of Deadeye Division.:
Ftr M rears the imnl
competed la rifle shoothir aad
he did pretty welL la be
was oa the Texas National
Gaard team. Later be was on
the recmlar army team. He
was oa fear wiaaiac trimt.
beims captain of two of them.
Then In 1924 be scored 343 oat
of a possible 35 la the Philip
pines. He has been in national
matches at Camp Perry, and
was in charge of rifle and pistol
teams, winning in pistol compe
tition in 1938 and in rifle com
petition in 1938 and 1939.
In Gen. Easley the troops to
be trained will find an officer
who expects the best of them,
because expert marksmanship is
second nature to him and he as
sumes that shooting well is
mostly a matter of learning.
"How about vision?' a be
spectacled interviewer asked the
general. "Must you have perfect
vision, to shoot well?"
"Can you see to jab a knife
into the butter, at the table?
Okeh, brother, you' can see well
wwiigh to shoot.1
That was Gen. Xasley's
ply. He conceded that steady
nerve helps, but Insisted that the
way to learn:
learn bow.
"The big error! with most men
who fail to shoot well,' be
plained. is in trigger release.
Most men flinch. You must
to shoot
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have your reflexes right. You
don't need such
But must see J
course.
-The ttme to
shoot is before
range at aU. A
be taaght to
accurate vision.
uniformly, j of
leara how-to
going to the
soldier shoald
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Gea. Easley (kaeeliag) tastraetlag Sgt. John B. Shepard (left) and
Sgt. Jesse B. Vaoxhaa-( Action photos this page by Camp Ad&ir
pabUc relations staff.) ;
fie weO aad to handle tt with
skm before be' ever sends! a
ballet, oat of it. i '
"When this training is over
the 96th will be the Deadeye di
vision. We're) learning the right
way to shoot: for blood" on the
battlefield. Thej men must be
equal to any emergency. Every
one must be imbued with the
idea that be is to bit what he is
aiming at and what he is aim
ing at is not the side of a hilL
A machine gun! can spatter la
hill. The rifle soldier's job lis
Civilian Chief Engineer
1st Man Commissioned
A. Collins. early
-chief of operations at; Camp
Adair for the army engineers,
soon became Maj. Collins. He
received his formal notification
from the war department in
June and ' was commissioned at
the camp with CoL R. E. M. Des
Islets, area engineer, doing the
nonors. 'Maj. Collins . was the
first officer to be commissioned
at Camp Adair. M j i
to pick out a particular spot and
bit that." i - - ; : !t
Japs Don't Like
This Whistling
Polka, Thanks i
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SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRAL-
lA-HHurtling beer bottles,
empty or partly Clled With
water is helping to disconcert
the Japanese in . the northern
Solomons, the crew of a allied
Catalina bomber reported after
a 2500-mile bombing mission.
They called toe bottles "mo
rale destroyers" because, ! they
emit a weird whistle as they cut
through the air. The tone can
be altered by adding . a little
, water. : .r ;"
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