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Students at these academies are organized as cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or the U.S. Merchant Marine.While not immediately offered a commission as an officer within a service, cadets do have the opportunity to participate in commissioning programs like the Strategic Sealift Officer Program (Navy) and Maritime Academy Graduate (Coast Guard).
The Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) is a federal program sponsored by the United States Armed Forces in high schools and also in some middle schools across the United States and at US military bases across the world. The program was originally created as part of the National Defense Act of 1916 and later expanded under the 1964 ...
Students receive hands-on training on preparation, rigging, and inspection of several certified or suitable external loads. These may include the following loads: M1097 HMMWV; M1097 HMMWV, shotgun/side-by-side configuration; M1151 HMMWV; M119 105mm Howitzer; M149A2 Water Trailer; A-22 Cargo Bag; Fuel Blivets (one, two, three, or four blivit ...
After the introduction of the rifle and shotgun courses, the school's name was changed to Gunsite Training Center. [citation needed] From the beginning, the objective of Gunsite was firearms education. Originally, the courses at Gunsite were numbered (250, 270, 499) because they were assigned units by the University of Phoenix as part of their ...
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is a national organization dedicated to training and educating U.S. citizens in responsible uses of firearms and airguns through gun safety training, marksmanship training, and competitions. The CMP is a federally chartered 501(c)(3) corporation that places a priority on serving youth through gun safety ...
In 2008, the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League was formed out of an after-school mentorship program run by Jim Sable, [4] a retired advertising executive and avid trap shooter. By 2010 the program had renamed itself the USA Clay Target League. Today, the USA Clay Target League is the largest youth clay target shooting program with ...
The United States service academies, also known as United States military academies, are federal academies for the undergraduate education and training of commissioned officers for the United States Armed Forces. There are five U.S. service academies: The United States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, New York, founded in 1802
Emblem of and worn by members of NFWS. The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (SFTI program), more popularly known as Top Gun (stylized as TOPGUN), is a United States Navy training program that teaches air combat maneuvering tactics and techniques to selected naval aviators and naval flight officers, who return to their operating units as surrogate instructors.