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The Zion-Benton NJROTC Rifle Team is the number one Navy Junior ROTC marksmanship team in the nation. The Rifle Team competes in the sporter air rifle category and has junior varsity ad varsity teams. This year the Zee-Bee "Top Guns" made history by winning the Secretary of the Navy Rifle competition in Fort Benning, Georgia against the best Navy JROTC teams in the United States. They also represented the Navy in the all-service competition against the top rifle teams from all Junior ROTC teams in the country. Their third place finish was the highest by a Navy JROTC team ever. The Rifle team is made up of two teams, Varsity and Junior Varsity. These two teams participate in traveling match competitions hosted either at Pierce Campus or other schools, as well as Postal matches. In traveling matches the hosting school's team grades the targets, however in a Postal match targets are instead mailed to the host to get scored. The school in the competition with the highest scores wins the match. When at competitions the Rifle Team competes in two different leagues. Freshman who are entering the Rifle Team report to Pierce Campus on October 6th at 1630. They meet approximately 3-4 times a week, in which they undergo the training process. This is necessary for them to go through because they in turn gain the experience & accuracy that enable them to advance into the ranks of the Varsity and JV teams to compete in the matches. Currently our very own varsity Navy Junior ROTC team is ranked 2nd in the nation. This select group of people should be recognized and congratulated for their triumphant efforts. As a team they did outstanding competing in the Navy Air Rifle Postal Competition in October of 2003. Competing were 583 schools consisting of over 3,500 cadets, each and every one of them was chasing the same goal, the title of Navy Junior ROTC National Champion. Individually, a handful of our greatest cadets competed and put forth an effort that seemed to exceed the competition by amazing lengths October of 2003, they attended the Navy Air Rifle Postal Competition. At this competition, we competed with over 3,500 cadets from 583 schools. All were participating to take the Navy Junior ROTC National Championship. Both our varsity and junior varsity teams took part in this tournament as the varsity took 1st in our area and 2nd in the nation.
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