Gnr Sam Gowin (RA)
I think that this is totally relevant to everything we do on ops – lots of running around and firing from different positions. A lot of people think this is all about prone shooting from different ranges but it’s actually a lot of hard work. Things like the casevac drills and wearing heavy kit are what you expect in Afghanistan so it’s right that we should do it here as well.


We asked competitors at the annual Army Operational Shooting Competition what they thought about the revamped contest

