4th USAMU Soldier Wins 2016 Olympic Seat

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Posted June 9, 2016 6:27 pm by Comments

By Justin Stakes

Dan Lowe, U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU), aims downrange during the 2016 Air Olympic Trials, where he won an air rifle seat on the U.S. Olympic Shooting Team June 5. Lowe will join three other USAMU Soldiers at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro in August. (U.S. Army photo by Brenda Rolin/released)

By Brenda Rolin
USAMU PAO

Dan Lowe, U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU), aims downrange during the 2016 Air Olympic Trials, where he won an air rifle seat on the U.S. Olympic Shooting Team June 5. Lowe will join three other USAMU Soldiers at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro in August. (U.S. Army photo by Brenda Rolin/released)
United States Army Marksmanship Unit
United States Army Marksmanship Unit

Camp Perry, OH -(AmmoLand.com)- A fourth Soldier from the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU) is joining his teammates in Rio de Janeiro this August after the 2016 Air Olympic Trials June 3-5 at Camp Perry, Ohio.

Spc. Dan Lowe, Olympia, Washington, earned one of two available air rifle seats on the U.S. Olympic Shooting Team June 5 during the Olympic Trials, two years after his assignment to USAMU; he was assigned June 5, 2014.

Three other USAMU marksmen have already taken their places on the U.S. Olympic Shooting Team. They are Sgts. 1st Class Michael McPhail, Darlington, Wisconsin, for 50-meter prone rifle; and Josh Richmond, Hillsgrove, Pennsylvania, and Glenn Eller, Katy, Texas, both for double trap, a shotgun discipline.

“There was an awful lot of pressure on this match,” Lowe said. “I spent a lot …Read the Rest

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