{"id":2730,"date":"2025-01-09T21:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2025-01-09T21:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:46:33","slug":"distinguished-rifleman-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/distinguished-rifleman-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Rifleman Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Disting.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-424\" width=\"294\" height=\"379\"\/><figcaption><strong><em>The Distinguished Rifleman Badge<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Being recognized as a Distinguished Rifleman is one of the highest achievements that a High Power shooter can achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my long term projects is to recognize our Distinguished Riflemen with a plaque to display in the Clubhouse at the range.  As part of that project, I have been scouring the list of 8600+ recipients of the Distinguished Badge for FWRR members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> So far, I have identified a number of FWRR recipients, but I am sure I have missed someone.  My search has gone back to about 1970 &#8211; so there are probably pre-1970 recipients out there that I do not know of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the Distinguished Rifleman I have identified so far.  If you know of anyone else, please let me know and I will update this list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Distinguished Rifleman Badge<\/strong> <strong>Recipients &#8211; FWRR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lynn Richter&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1978&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No Badge Number Listed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Goshert&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1997&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;# 1267<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark Strahan&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1997&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;# 1286<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark Walters&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1998&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;# 1339<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carl Johnson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0# 2161<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brad Diehl&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2017&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;# 2372<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike King&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;# 2444<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Geoff Branson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02024\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0#2656<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being recognized as a Distinguished Rifleman is one of the highest achievements that a High Power shooter can achieve. One of my long term projects is to recognize our Distinguished Riflemen with a plaque to display in the Clubhouse at the range. As part of that project, I have been scouring the list of 8600+&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}