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Edson Range is a firing range complex at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, near Oceanside, California. It is named for Marine Major General "Red Mike" Edson, "a World War II Medal of Honor recipient and a distinguished small arms marksman proponent." [1] This rifle-qualification complex is home to four of the largest firing ranges on the base. [2]
When I came to the county, the Point was just a small beach and a few picnic areas ... the park had to be designed around the already existent rifle range, the museum and the marina." By the time Dean retired in 1991, Coyote Point was the most-visited park in the county park system, [4]: 24–25 welcoming more than 500,000 visitors per year.
Camp Calvin B. Matthews or Marine Corps Rifle Range Camp Matthews or Marine Corps Rifle Range, La Jolla (prior to World War II) [1] or more simply Camp Matthews was a United States Marine Corps military base from 1917 until 1964, when the base was decommissioned and transferred to the University of California to be part of the new University of California, San Diego campus. [2]
A handful of spent .50-caliber casings will be kept in celebration of the first rounds fired Tuesday, May 7, 2024, on the new machine gun range at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training ...
Small-bore (.22 Long Rifle caliber) rifle ranges are typically 50 metres (55 yd) to accommodate the Olympic 50 m Rifle event, but they can extend to 200 metres (219 yd). These ranges are found around the world as part of various cadet shooting programs, sometimes reduced to 25 metres (27 yd), or in American parlance "the thousand-inch range ...
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Map of the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range. The range is a 459,000 acres (1,860 km 2) [1] open-area, approximately 20 miles wide, east to west, and 50 miles long, northwest to southeast, with a special-use airspace of 700 square miles (1,800 km 2) [1] which is used for aerial bombing and live fire aerial gunnery practice.