(GunReports.com) — In NRA’s Youth Education Summit, 45 outstanding current high school sophomores and juniors from across the United States are chosen each year to travel to the nation’s capital, where they participate in the weeklong educational opportunity. The summit encourages young adults to become active and knowledgeable U.S. citizens by learning about the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the federal government, and the importance of being active in civic affairs.
Part of the 2012 summit, which ran June 25 to July 1, took place when the participants went to Quantico, Virginia, to visit the Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer (ISMT) building.
Adopted by the United States Marine Corps in 1990, the ISMT is an interactive simulator that provides small arms training in enhanced marksmanship, weapons employment, indirect fire and tactical decision-making. The system uses actual firearms that have been instrumented with lasers and mechanisms providing life-like recoil to make the experience as realistic as possible.
This is more than just a target reading where your shot, computer graphics can not only simulate ranges in a variety of weather conditions, but provide video sequences that challenge a Marine’s ability to handle any situation.
Going through the training, the shooter might might see non-combatants mixed with combatants, escalation of force scenarios, or different sorts of hostage situations.
