If you are an experienced shooting coach or instructor with the time and desire to do something to help young people learn how to shoot, the Civilian Marksmanship Program needs your help.
For the last 5 years, the CMP has worked with summer camps that offer riflery as a camp activity. In working with these camps, the CMP seeks to provide quality training and curriculum, sound advice and, most importantly, the very best instructor training. To do this, the CMP developed an Instructor Training Course that trains camp counselors and instructors to teach camp riflery to youth who attend camps where the counselors will work. The program has grown in the last few years, with more and more camps requesting CMP assistance in training their counselors. The number of camps making requests has grown so large that the CMP had to turn down
some requests for Instructor Training Courses due to a lack of Master Instructors qualified to teach courses in
those areas. To make sure the CMP can respond positively to future requests for Camp Riflery Instructor Training Courses, the CMP needs some men and women with shooting sports knowledge who are motivated to promote firearms safety and youth shooting by helping to train more camp riflery counselors and instructors.
The Camp Riflery Instructor Training Course is a three-day course that is taught by a Master Instructor at a host summer camp. Counselors from the host camp as well as from other camps in that area attend these courses. The class size normally may not exceed twelve students. The course teaches camp counselors the basics of firearm safety instruction and the fundamentals of three-position target rifle shooting. The CMP pays each certified Master Instructor $500 plus expenses to teach a course. Master Instructors are asked to teach courses in their geographic area when at all possible, however there may be times when they are asked to travel longer distances. Typically, Instructor Training Courses are taught during the months of May and June when camps hire and prepare their staffs for the summer camping season.
The CMP plans to offer a Master Instructor Training Course in Anniston, Alabama the week of 4-8 April 2005 to prepare new Master Instructors to teach Instructor Training Courses this coming May and June and in future years. If you feel you are qualified and would like to be a part of this program, please contact Bryan Otwell, the CMP Camp Services Coordinator, at 256-835-8455, ext 26, or by email to botwell@odcmp.com for an application.
If you want more information about the CMP Camp Riflery program, go to the CMP Camp Riflery web page at http://www.odcmp.com/
CRProgram.htm. If you want more information about summer camps and the summer camp experience, a good place to start is on the American Camp Association web site at http://www.acacamps.org/. Most of the camps served by the CMP Camp Riflery program are ACA affiliates.
The CMP looks forward to working with you as it strives to develop its Camp Riflery program so that it can introduce firearms safety and the exciting challenges of rifle marksmanship to more of America’s youth. |
