{"id":138469,"date":"2024-03-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=138469"},"modified":"2024-03-20T13:09:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:09:35","slug":"massachusetts-new-york-guard-units-compete-in-shooting-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=138469","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts, New York Guard Units Compete in Shooting Match"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army Sgt. Miguel Lopez, a team leader assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, fires an M4 carbine at Camp Smith Training Site in Peekskill, New York, during the 2024 Logan-Duffy Marksmanship Competition March 13, 2024. The competition, first held in 1936, is an annual shooting match between the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, and the 1st Battalion, 182nd Infantry Regiment. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Alexander Rector)
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PEEKSKILL, N.Y. – Army National Guard Soldiers from New York\u2019s 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, squared off against their Massachusetts sister unit, the 1st Battalion, 182nd Infantry Regiment, in the annual Logan-Duffy Marksmanship Competition March 13.<\/p>\n

The 182nd came out on top, winning the match by a single point, 280 to 279.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been with the 69th since 2016 and I have never seen the Logan-Duffy Competition this close,\u201d said Command Sgt. Maj. Jason Zeller, the 69th\u2019s senior enlisted leader.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s match took six top shooters from each battalion and tested their rifle marksmanship in standing, prone and seated positions. Using only the iron sights of the U.S. Army\u2019s M4 carbine to aim and fire at paper targets, the Soldiers tested their speed and accuracy.<\/p>\n

Setting the teams apart was the 182nd\u2019s top shooter, Sgt. Tristan Manchester, an infantryman and team leader from the battalion\u2019s Alpha Company.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe real victory here is the relationship between our two battalions,\u201d said Lt. Col. Landon Mavrelis, 1st Battalion, 182nd Infantry Regiment commander. \u201cThe most important part of this is the camaraderie and esprit de corps that we\u2019re building.\u201d<\/p>\n

The competition is named for Brig. Gen. Lawrence Logan of Massachusetts and Brig. Gen. Edward Duffy of New York, who commanded the regiments during the Spanish-American War. It began to encourage competitive marksmanship with the rifle, the infantry\u2019s principal weapon, and enhance the friendship between two units with similar backgrounds and heritage.<\/p>\n

The 69th and 182nd are two of the U.S. Army\u2019s oldest units. The 69th traces its lineage to the Civil War when the unit mainly comprised Irish immigrants, and the 182nd traces its lineage back to the Massachusetts Colonial Militia.<\/p>\n

Today, the units serve in different states but under the same brigade \u2014 New York\u2019s 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the 42nd Infantry Division.<\/p>\n

With a few exceptions, the Logan-Duffy match has been held annually since 1936. The 182nd won in the inaugural year, only for the 69th to win the next.<\/p>\n

The units take turns hosting the competition, with the 69th hosting this year at Camp Smith in New York. The 182nd will host the 2025 competition at Camp Devens in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

The match\u2019s trophy, a large, silver gilded cup, is jointly owned by the regiments, with the latest winner keeping it until the next competition.<\/p>\n

The competition was put on hold when both units served overseas in World War II in 1940. In 1958, the match resumed and the battalions competed every year until 2023, when both were deployed overseas \u2014 the 69th to the Horn of Africa and the 182nd to the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to have this tradition that we carry on every year,\u201d said Lt. Col. Adam Bojarski, commander of the 69th. \u201cAs we\u2019ve moved into the digital age, we\u2019ve lost some of our traditions. Keeping those traditions alive is important.\u201d<\/p>\n

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U.S. Army Sgt. Miguel Lopez, a team leader assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, fires an M4 carbine at Camp Smith Training Site in Peekskill, New York, during the 2024 Logan-Duffy Marksmanship Competition March 13, 2024. The competition, first held in 1936, is an annual shooting match between the 1st Battalion, 69th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138471,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138472,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138469\/revisions\/138472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}