First ever Sabot Academy helps prepare Reserve Soldiers for challenging master gunnery course
Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Artem McCall, a pre-mobilization noncommissioned officer and native of Rosman, North Carolina, assigned to the 415th Chemical Brigade, 76th Operational Response Command, carefully disassembles a M2 .50-caliber machine gun during the first ever Sabot Academy in White Settlement, Texas May 22. The four-day academy covers a variety of basic and advanced gunnery skills and knowledge, and is designed to better prepare students for the extremely challenging master gunnery common core course at Fort Benning, Georgia. (Official U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent C. Powell)