ETSU's Pershing Rifles Battery B-6

All Freahman, Sophmores, and Juniors of Pershing Rifles, please take this opportunity to apply for some awesome scholarships through the National Society. This is a great way to reward our brothers of PR. You all have put such hard work into this organization. Plus B-6 is on the cover of the scholarship page!

Let's go B-6 of East Tennessee State University! Let's put our hearts into winning NATCON!

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I am proud to say the ETSU's Pershing Rifles Drill team will be competing in all events, including individual drill and duel drill, at theNational Convention on March 9-12 of 2017. I'd like to give a round of applause to all of the B-6 Pershing Rifleman. Whether they're competing or not, they have done an outstanding job. Let's go win NATCON 2017!!!

Thank you
Cadets:
Trent
Stafford
Carson
Rose
Russell
McMurry
Feagins
Ho
Taylor
Martin
Donohoe
Kaur
Hodge
Rodriguez
Thompson
Hagen
Robinson
Barnett
Shelton
Hayes

You all are the future for B-6.

The nations number 1 individual exhibition. Our very own brother here at the ETSU Pershing Rifles drill team. Way to go Matt Carson!

Some of our awesome new Pershing Rifles freshman presenting the colors at ETSU's football game on October 1st. All of our incoming candidates are doing outstanding, and they are motivated to earn a wining spot at NATCON 2017!

On March 12 2016, the ETSU's Pershing Rifles B-6 will be competing at the Pershing Rifles National Convention (NATCON). We will be headed to Washington D.C. From March 10-12, competing on Saturday, March 12. Wish all of the ETSU's PR good luck next weekend and a safe trip!

CONGRATULATIONS to Ashley Hayes and Parker Moore! They were selected as the superior cadets for their respective classes this year! Just goes to show you how integral our Rifleman are in this program.

ETSU's national champion color guard presented the colors tonight for the NIT game against NC State! Go bucs!

In the most prestigious category, Color Guard, B-6 won first place in the society. This category has the most participants and some schools send multiple teams just to compete in the color guard. As such, we have the nations best color guard. With that, the honor of the society balls color guard was given to us that night.

In the regulation platoon category second place was achieved nationally. This requires 13 personnel to compete in and some schools are not even capable of participating due to the high requirements that it takes to have even one person "Activated".

In the regulation squad category we were also second nationally. This consists of 7 personnel. This category is much more competitive than the platoon as fewer people are required and the more skilled cadets may be hand picked for this.

Also, Cadet Colin Rose was selected as Cadet Jonathan Shackelford's predecessor for Regimental Commander. As such, he will be commanding all schools within Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida.

All in all, ETSU did outstanding for its first year ever competing. They dealt with tens of hours a week practicing drill and ceremony, physical training, and maintained a higher academic requirement than the national society requires.

More pictures to follow!!

Check out the results from NATCON! ETSU's Battery B-6 did outstanding!

John J. Pershing Memorial Drill Competition Results

National Champion Drill Team "Varsity Rifles" - P/R Troop L-1, University of Toledo
2nd Overall: Company C-4, Clemson University
3rd Overall: Company M-4, Appalachian State University

Duet Exhibition Drill (Armed)
1st Place, P/R Troop. L-1 (Toledo)
2nd Place, P/R Company C-4 (Clemson)
3rd Place, P/R Company I-1 (Bowling Green)

Individual Exhibition Drill (Armed)
1st Place, P/R Company C-4 (Clemson)
2nd Place, P/R Company N-4 (NC A&T State)
3rd Place, P/R Company G-7 (Kansas State)

IDR Knockout (Unarmed)
1st Place, Anthony Perkins, Company N-4 (NC A&T State)
2nd Place, Aaron Durham, Company C-4 (Clemson)
3rd Place, Kendall Morris, Company G-10 (California Baptist)

Platoon Regulation Drill (Armed)
1st Place, P/R Company C-4 (Clemson)
2nd Place, P/R Battery B-6 (East Tennessee State)
3rd Place, P/R Company M-4 (Appalachian State)

Platoon Exhibition Drill (Armed)
1st Place, P/R Company C-4 (Clemson)
2nd Place, P/R Troop L-1 (Toledo)
3rd Place, N/A

Squad Regulation Drill (Armed)
1st Place, P/R Troop L-1 (Toledo)
2nd Place, P/R Battery. B-6 (East Tennessee State)
3rd Place, P/R Company. C-4 (Clemson)

Squad Exhibition Drill (Armed)
1st Place, P/R Troop L-1 (Toledo)
2nd Place, P/R Company A-1 (Ohio State)
3rd Place, P/R Company G-7 (Kansas State)

Color Guard
1st Place, P/R Company B-6 (East Tennessee State)
2nd Place, P/R Troop L-1 (Toledo)
3rd Place, P/R Company G-10 (California Baptist)

Congratulations to all cadets who participated in this year's John J. Pershing Memorial Drill Meet! Battery B-6 got 1st place in Color Guard, 2nd place in regulation squad, and 2nd place in regulation platoon! Look out next year when ETSU competes in all categories, including exhibition routines!

Battery B-6 decided to do some weekend work in order to make up the two weeks of snow days that they missed!

Only 42 days until the 2015 annual Pershing Rifles National Convention in Richmond, VA! ETSU's Pershing Rifleman Battery B-6 are continuing to prepare for the exciting drill events that they will be participating in.
These events will include; Platoon Drill,Commander Colin Rose, Squad Drill, Commander Jacob Stitt, Color Guard, Commander Nick Osborne, and an individual exhibition preformed by Johnathan Shackelford. The weekend of March 12-15 will be an exciting weekend for ETSU's Pershing Rifleman. Let's support them to prepare and win this competition!
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