Shoot House opens at Camp Ravenna
Photos by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Pavlik, Ohio National Guard
COLUMBUS, Ohio (7/1/13) — The “first shot” ceremony for the new Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center Shoot House was held July 1, 2013. Brig. Gen. John C. Harris Jr., Ohio assistant adjutant general for Army; Col. Chip Tansill, Ohio Army National Guard chief of staff; Chief Warrant Officer 5 Jay Stuckman, state command chief warrant officer; and Command Sgt. Maj. Rodger Jones, state command sergeant major, entered the newly constructed shoot house and fires the ceremonial first shot as a group. The single-story, eight-room shoot house, constructed over six months at a cost of more than $2 million, features ballistic steel and reinforced rubber panel-lined walls designed to absorb all gunfire, and reduce ricochets, excessive noise and other hazards. The shoot house will be used to train service members and law enforcement officers in close-contact scenarios such as room and building clearing, hostage rescue and active shooter response.
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