The Unique History of the Barrett Rifle
With no firearms design experience or training, photographer Ronnie Barrett hand-drew a design for a .50 caliber rifle.
Here’s What You Need to Remember: One weapon system not only revolutionized the field of military sniping but also created an entirely new category of weapon systems. Using an existing large caliber bullet and adapting it to the precision rifle platform, the innovative Barrett M82 sniper rifle practically created the category of large caliber rifles that equip military snipers worldwide to this day.
In 1982, Ronnie Barrett was a professional photographer taking photos of a military patrol boat on Tennessee’s Stones River. The patrol boat was armed with two M2 .50 caliber heavy machine gun mounts. Barrett was intrigued by the guns and wondered if a rifle could be designed to fire the .50 BMG bullet.
By JOHN LOVETT | Times Record | Published: May 2, 2021 (Tribune News Service) On July 8, 1944, a P-38 piloted by 23-year-old 2nd Lt. Henry Donald Mitchell of Harmon, Ark., crash-landed in a deeply wooded area near Waldegg, Austria, after a flight sweep to Vienna with the 48th Fighter Squadron. Ever since then, his younger brother Bob Mitchell of Fort Smith has wondered what exactly happened that day. This week, new hope came by email from the U.S. Department of POW/MIA Accounting Agency. After decades of not being able to search the crash site, a team with the agency was recently able to conduct a forensic excavation. They have found possible human remains.
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4/28/2021
By ETHAN SHOREY, Valley Breeze Editor
CUMBERLAND – Philip Thornton, the town’s former superintendent of schools who left for the same post in Warwick back in 2015, is back, set to return to the role after Supt. Bob Mitchell officially retires in June.
“The Cumberland School Committee is pleased to announce that after a comprehensive search and interview process, we will be welcoming back Dr. Philip Thornton as the next superintendent for the Cumberland School Department,” said the School Committee in a statement this week. “Dr. Thornton will replace Supt. Mitchell who is retiring at the end of the school year. Dr. Thornton is a familiar face to the district as he was the superintendent from 2011 to 2015.”