{"id":13154,"date":"2021-05-17T05:59:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=13154"},"modified":"2021-05-17T05:59:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T12:59:50","slug":"the-2021-macmanus-1911-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/the-2021-macmanus-1911-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2021 MacManus 1911 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month we had a quick trip back to New Jersey for the 2021 MacManus Award.\u00a0 You’ve read about the MacManus Award earlier on these pages.\u00a0 It’s the presentation of a 1911 .45 Auto to the outstanding Rutgers University Reserve Officers Training Corps graduating cadet.<\/p>\n

US Army Captain Colin D. MacManus, Rutgers University \u201963.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The award honors Captain Colin D. MacManus, a US Army Airborne Ranger who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1967.\u00a0 Good buddies Dennis, Tim, Javier, and I revived the MacManus Award, and it’s a tradition we will keep alive.<\/p>\n

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The 2021 MacManus Award, a Colt 1911 presented to Cadet Joseph Hom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The 1973 Colin D. MacManus 1911 and a couple of 5-shot, 25-yard hand held groups I fired with it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You know, I sometimes hear people my age talk about younger folks in a disparaging manner and lament a notion that young people today are somehow less motivated than we were.\u00a0 When I meet people like Joe Hom and his classmates, I know that’s not true.\u00a0 It’s reassuring and invigorating to meet these folks and when I do, I know our future is in good hands.<\/p>\n

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You can read more about the MacManus award and other Tales of the Gun here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this month we had a quick trip back to New Jersey for the 2021 MacManus Award.\u00a0 You’ve read about the MacManus Award earlier on these pages.\u00a0 It’s the presentation of a 1911 .45 Auto to the outstanding Rutgers University Reserve Officers Training Corps graduating cadet. The award honors Captain Colin D. MacManus, a US … Continue reading “The 2021 MacManus 1911 Award”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[392,84],"tags":[2047,85,972,188,2048,971,1771,2049],"class_list":["post-13154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-back-in-the-day","category-guns","tag-45-automatic","tag-85","tag-colin-d-macmanus","tag-colt","tag-reserve-officer-training-corps","tag-rotc","tag-rutgers-university","tag-vietnam-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021MacManus.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13154"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13178,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13154\/revisions\/13178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}