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Jessica Brown – First Junior Female to Complete Trooper

The MGM Ironman is billed by its organizers as “The Toughest 3 Gun Competition on Earth” and no one will argue that. If you follow the MGM Ironman, you know that if you drill down even deeper into the depths of this competition, there exists a whole new level of tough found in the Trooper Division.

Trooper is a division of competiters at the MGM Ironman who compete with their own, even more grueling, set of rules. They carry every single bit of their equipment on their person for the entire match – from sign in to completion. If they run out of ammo because they have exhausted what they are carrying, they are done. Want a back up gun? You have to carry it. Moving to the next stage? Do it in one trip or you’ll have to carry all your gear back and start over. It is a real test of the shooter and their equipment, and I am just scratching the surface of the rules. As you can imagine, many shooters don’t finish the event due to physical and equipment breakdowns.

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It’s easy to look at the rules and think that Trooper Division is not for young ladies but this year (the 11th year of Trooper’s existence) there was a historic first. Jessica Brown, a Junior Female, completed Trooper. She started the day with 150 pounds of gear (which is 25 pounds more than her body weight) and ended the day finishing 24th out of 33 finishers.

Russell Phagan, founder of Trooper Class, is marketing manager at KE Arms, one of Jessica’s sponsors. The following is the press release that they sent over following her historic accomplishment:

Jessica Brown became the first Junior female shooter to complete the MGM Ironman in trooper division in its 11 year history.

Her loadout started at 150 pounds, 25 pounds more than her bodyweight.  Jessica persevered while many adult male shooters drop out of this division every year for lack of ammunition, lack of physical preparedness, injuries, or firearms breakage.

Jessica placed 24/33 Troopers.

Thanks to our Industry partners that helped her succeed in this endeavor:

Brethren Armament
Whiskey Two-Four
Nightforce Optics
Honor Point, LLC
Gun Show Ammo
The Suarez Group
MOA Precision LLC

If you have a daughter looking for a role model, show her this post. I know I’ll be showing my three daughters!

Congratulations Jessica.

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HSG Tactical Cooler Panel

I can’t explain it rationally and I’m not sure how I would use it, but when High Speed Gear announced the HSG Tactical Cooler Panel for Bison Coolers, I could barely resist. These things are just too cool.

The panel snaps directly to the front of the cooler via seven snaps. It has a massive PALS field for attaching pouches and plenty of loop Velcro for attaching patches. It available for Bison’s 50 and 70 quart coolers.

The HSG Tactical Cooler Panel is available from Bison Coolers.

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Memorial Day 2015

Hopefully, you will take a moment from the cookouts and shopping to remember those who have died while serving this country. This county is, in no small part, beautiful because of those who have served and given their lives for it.

From America the Beautiful

O beautiful for heroes proved

In liberating strife.

Who more than self their country loved

And mercy more than life!

Thank you to those who loved country and mercy more than self and life. We are forever in your debt and you are not forgotten on this Memorial Day or any other day.

Operation Hawkeye Team 31 Auction

During the week of Veteran’s Day 2015 (November 4 – 11, 2015), Operation Hawkeye will conduct a massive online auction on Gunbroker.com in conjunction with the NSSF and others. The auction will benefit Operation Hawkeye’s continuing mission to support the causes and loved ones of the 31 Special Operations forces heroes from EXTORTION 17, lost on 8/6/2011. The effort will be called the Team 31 Auction and it will consist of goods, services, and memorabilia donated by scores of mission teammates, particularly tactical companies and others involved in shooting sports.

Operation Hawkeye’s goal is to make this the largest auction ever conducted to benefit the Special Operations forces community. Mark your calenders and stay tuned for more details.

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