{"id":9083,"date":"2013-11-07T13:51:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T13:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9083"},"modified":"2015-05-21T13:53:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:53:34","slug":"ukm-civilian-staff-in-shooting-competition-with-its-cadet-officers-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/november-2013\/ukm-civilian-staff-in-shooting-competition-with-its-cadet-officers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UKM Civilian Staff In Shooting Competition With Its Cadet Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2013%2Fnovember-2013%2Fukm-civilian-staff-in-shooting-competition-with-its-cadet-officers-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=9083&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2 class=\"contentheading\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsitem_tools\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\"><span class=\"createdate\">THURSDAY, 07 NOVEMBER 2013 00:00<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/LatihanPALAPES-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin<br \/>\nPix Izwan Azman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 4 Nov 2013 \u2013\u00a0 For the first time, civilians took part in a marksmanship competition alongside officers of The National University of Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) Reserve Officers Training Unit (ROTU) cadets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 60 reserve officer cadets from the two universities and 40 spectators participated in the the shooting contest, organised by the Royal Malay Regiment (RAMD) here today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The training of USIM\u2019s reserve officers are being undertaken by UKM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Head of the UKM ROTU Training, Lt Col Mohd Sahar bin Haji Said said this was also the first time that non-military UKM staff were invited to witness the UKM and USIM event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He lauded the enthusiasm shown by the civilians describing the exercise as encouraging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the participants were Vice-Chancellor,\u00a0Prof Tan\u00a0Sri\u00a0Dato&#8217;\u00a0Seri\u00a0Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan\u00a0Shahabudin, who is Commandant of UKM ROTU\u00a0and staff of the various faculties, centres and security guards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy\u00a0Vice-Chancellors\u00a0(Students and Alumni Affairs), Prof\u00a0 Dato&#8217;\u00a0Dr\u00a0Ir\u00a0Othman\u00a0A Karim\u00a0and (Academic and International Affairs),\u00a0Prof Datuk Dr\u00a0Noor\u00a0Azlan\u00a0Ghazali\u00a0also took part.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before the informal competition, the civilians received a crash course in shooting the M-16 rifles with 10 rounds of ammunition each to shoot at cardboard targets 25 metres away. The non-military members were charge RM10 each for the 10 rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the contest, participants were divided into 16 groups of four each with mixed military and civilian members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The match was held in a knock-out format with each winning team going on to the next round until only two groups remained for the final.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each participant were given 5 rounds of ammunition and were required to knock down 9 plates. The first group that managed to knock down the most plates before the ammunition ran out went on to the next stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eventually, a group made up mostly of UKM security guards emerged the top team.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/LatihanPALAPES-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/LatihanPALAPES-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THURSDAY, 07 NOVEMBER 2013 00:00 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Izwan Azman BANGI, 4 Nov 2013 \u2013\u00a0 For the first<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/november-2013\/ukm-civilian-staff-in-shooting-competition-with-its-cadet-officers-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1230,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9083","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9084,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9083\/revisions\/9084"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}