By BETH TREFFEISEN | Cape Cod Times | Published: May 4, 2021 JOINT BASE CAPE COD, Mass. (Tribune News Service) The drive out to the Sierra Range, one of the few active gun ranges on Camp Edwards, is long, dusty and bumpy. Upon arrival, there s an open field filled with grass-covered berms. Brightly colored plastic targets sit upright, riddled with bullet holes. The range, one of four currently active on Joint Base Camp Cod, is used to train members of the National Guard in using M4 and M16 rifles. Members use the range following virtual and short-range pistol training. A soldier has to hit 23 of the 40 targets from distances of 50 and 300 meters to meet their annual training requirement, and they have just over three minutes to complete the task.
JOINT BASE CAPE COD The drive out to the Sierra Range, one of the few active gun ranges on Camp Edwards, is long, dusty and bumpy. Upon arrival, there’s an open field filled with grass-covered berms. Brightly colored plastic targets sit upright, riddled with bullet holes.
The range, one of four currently active on Joint Base Camp Cod, is used to train members of the National Guard in using M4 and M16 rifles. Members use the range following virtual and short-range pistol training.
A soldier has to hit 23 of the 40 targets from distances of 50 and 300 meters to meet their annual training requirement, and they have just over three minutes to complete the task.
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The red outline on this map of Camp Edwards shows where the Army National Guard is proposing an eight-lane machine gun range. The surface danger zone, where projectiles could land, is highlighted in pink.
Members of Massachusetts’ congressional delegation are calling for a closer look at the environmental impacts of a proposed machine gun range that the Massachusetts Army National Guard wants to build on Joint Base Cape Cod.
In a letter, Rep. Bill Keating and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey said the overwhelming majority of constituents who have contacted their offices believe that further review of the project should be required.
By WXTK News
A prescribed burn is planned Wednesday at Camp Edwards on Joint Base Cape Cod.
The Massachusetts National Guard’s natural resources program will conduct the burn with the objective of reducing the fire hazard and for training purposes including, wild land fuel hazards, ecological management of the Pine Barrens, and improvement and maintenance of training and maneuver areas.
The National Guard wants to clear 170 acres of woods on Cape Cod for a new machine gun range
By David Abel Globe Staff,Updated April 13, 2021, 9:37 a.m.
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National Guard Specialist Kyle Canzano (right) prepared to take the Army s rifle record fire qualification range, a test that is an annual requirement for Guard members, on the existing firing range for machine guns at Camp Edwards.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
JOINT BASE CAPE COD â In a clearing in the woods of these sprawling training grounds, First Lieutenant Patrick Foley peered down the barrel of his M4 assault rifle and awaited the command âweapons free.â