See Booklet; USAMU International Rifle "Hall of Fame" dated June 18,1988, Induction, June 24. Box 4 Folder 513. Article; photo of Foster kneeling in front of a target, holding his rifle. Caption; Jack Foster of Bozeman, a veteran of national and international competition, will be inducted into the Army Shooting Hall of Fame later this month. For 17 years, shooting was work for the 51-year-old retired Army Lt.Colonel who was a member of the elite marksmanship unit at Fort Benning, GA. And there have been few bad days of shooting. Foster competed in the 1960 and 1968 Olympics and won four World Championships. He set two individual world records along the way and estimates that he had a part in 20-to-25 team world records. Medals, plaques and trophies won in national and international shooting competitions decorate Foster's home south of Bozeman. The payoff for all those years of work comes June 24 when the rifleman will be inducted into the Army Shooting Hall of Fame at Fort Benning. There was a rifle range a block down the road from where Foster grew up in Springfield, OH, and he began shooting there as a teen-ager. "When I get into something, I get into it all the way," Foster said. "I shot through 4 years of college and shot well enough to get people interested in me at the marksmanship unit, which at that time was more or less the incubator for international-type shooting in the country." Foster studied forestry at the University of Montana where he was a member of the UM shooting team before joining the Army. Although he spent 20 years in the service, Foster never considered himself an Army regular. "I always felt kind of like a civilian in the military," he said. "But I didn't mind the tours." Foster spent 2 tours of duty in Vietnam. The first ended when he was wounded during a mortar attack. He ran a sniper school for the 101st Airborne Division at a base north of Hue during his second tour. Foster still shoots once a week at the Montana State University indoor range and competes each year in the national championships at Fort Benning. "But not winningly," he said with a smile. "I don't have the desire anymore, the hunger." Foster has certainly had his fill of shooting. As an instructor/shooter in the Army, he was able to spend nine months a year, 5 to 6 hours a day, on the range. Smallbore rimfire .22 caliber rifles are fired at targets 50-100 meters/yards away. Big-bore rifles (.308 Winchester is the most common caliber) are used for targets at a distance of 300 meters. The centerfire big-bore calibers were Foster's favorite. "I liked the noise, the bang of the big bores," he said. "The 300M used to be my favorite." Four targets hang in a frame on a wall in the basement of Foster's home. There are 10 bullet holes in each target. Only nine of the 40 holes Foster punched in the paper from a kneeling position 300 meters away lie outside of the 6" bullseyes. The targets represent a world record Foster set in 1966 in Weisbaden, Germany. He's very proud of that record. He's also proud of the nearly 20 years he spent as one of the top shooters on the best shooting team in the world.