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O’Connor 10 Coaches’ Corner ■ Katie McGinty and Paralympic Coach Bob Foth ON THE COMPLEX 28 Thoughts from: The Executive Director Competitions Marketing 32 31 NEWS & EVENTS Kim Rhode shooting her way to another gold medal at the 2010 World Cup in Acapulco, Mexico. Photo courtesy of Marco Dalla Dea, © 2010 ISSF. www.usashooting.org 3 From the Editor USA Shooting 1 Olympic Plaza Colorado Springs, CO 80909 Phone: 719-866-4670 Your uSA Shooting newS Administration Fax: 719-635-7989 Competitions Fax: 719-866-4884 elcome to your magazine. As a new USAS mem- Lindsay Brooke Competitions Manager ber and rookie staff member of USA Shooting, 719-866-4885 [email protected] I’m attempting to learn in leaps and bounds – feel Calah Duryea free to help me if you offer expertise in a par- Coaches’ Assistant/Team Manager 719-866-4611 ticular area. Please bear with me as I learn more [email protected] about your unique sport. 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Please refer to www.usashooting.org for the extended version, including her story from 719-866-4899 the 2007 Olympic Selection match and the reason behind Mrs. Cogdell’s decision to home school [email protected] Nichole Rae Corey and her sister. This is a new feature that we are pleased to bring our readers. We are limited Membership & Merchandise Manager 719-866-4743 by the number of words that go to print, so we have decided to post the extended versions online. [email protected] This is one of many changes that you will see in the upcoming few issues and through the Media/ Bill Roy Public Relations arm of USA Shooting. Director of Operations 719-866-4890 I have a distinctive writing style and clear-cut ideas for improving your magazine. With the help [email protected] of Mrs. Claire Sanderson, our very talented designer, I am looking forward to making some altera- Corrie West Marketing Manager tions. Is there something missing? 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I know a great hotel . and hope to see many of you there. Lindsay Brooke ■ Katie McGinty Marco Dalla Dea SFC Theresa DeWitt Buddy DuVall Bob Foth Bill Honza USA Shooting News is published six times a year. USA Shooting is the national governing body for Olympic Shooting sports Bob Mitchell in the United States. USA Shooting News is produced as a service to international shooters, coaches, officials and media who JP O’Connor Bill Roy cover Olympic-style shooting. Shooters featured in USA Shooting News magazine may be photographed without eye protec- Connie Smotek tion. These are posed photographs using unloaded guns and do not represent actual competiton. USA Shooting encourages Amy Sowash Jennifer Wilder all shooters to use proper eye and ear protection when shooting. 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Corey Cogdell Cabela’s Pro Staff DCW-001 Inc. © 2009 Cabela’s 18018_USAshootingmag.indd 1 12/1/09 8:17:04 AM Columns (Aim with AMU) Preserving Our Past hey say time marches on; how- that Patton, “hated to lose, but he was a good concluded, the “police action” in Korea drew ever, if we are lucky, we may competitor.” to a close and in 1956, President Dwight D. catch whispers of the past in In the course of Tibbets’ military career, Eisenhower issued a directive ordering the our haste to move forward. If he volunteered for the mission of piloting establishment of the United States Army you have been to Hook Range at the aircraft that was to drop the first atomic Marksmanship Unit. Its mission was to en- the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit for a trap bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on hance the overall marksmanship skills of U.S. Tor skeet match in the last few months, those August 6, 1945. Tibbets attained the rank of soldiers. By the fall of 1960, Hook Range and whispers could be heard more distinctly as Brigadier General (BG) before retiring from the Round House were now home to the new- the thumping of hammers reviving a dying the U.S. Air Force. The years rolled by; WWII ly formed International Shotgun Team. icon. The Round House, or “Big House” as referred to by USAMU shotgun team mem- bers, is getting a much deserved, and long overdue, facelift. This architecturally unique structure has a history studded with military generals, Hollywood legends and, of course, Olympians. But its origins are much humbler. Fort Benning began as a southern planta- tion spanning hundreds of thousands of acres. In 1918, it became a training post for World War I infantry troops. The undeveloped acre- age offered a variety of activities, such as hunting, for stationed soldiers. In 1938, the U.S. Army built the Round House on the for- mer southeastern edge of the developed area of Fort Benning. Its purpose was to function as a hunting lodge, but it was officially consid- ered an annex to the Officer’s Club. The con- struction of the Round House coincided with the designation of Hook Range as the Fort Benning Skeet Range.