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SECOND AMENDMENT to the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA

"A well   regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,

the right   of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".

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Jim Sheckels Biography

I was elected to the NRA Board of Directors (BOD) for 2025-2028.
I believe the NRA Board BOD must work to gain back the trust of our membership through transparency; we must rebuild our education, training, competition, and community outreach activities; and the BOD must take action to identify and remove anyone that is responsible for allowing the situation to fester which saw the NRA in the New York courts and elsewhere

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We can accomplish this by working with the members and like-minded local grass roots organizations to put real reform into the NRA policies, select and elect 2A friendly state and local representatives of the people, and develop good 2A friendly personal freedom legislation FOR THE PEOPLE.

I have several years of experience on BODs associated with hunting and 2A, and with Scouting.
My skill set includes strategic / long-term planning, budget formulation and execution, policy development, programmatics, crisis management, problem identification and resolution, and training & education.

Some notes about Jim:
I married Becky Simpson, my high school sweetheart on 1977 in Knoxville, TN. 
We have two adult children, Katrina and Ken. 

I was born at Naval Air Station, Florida; raised in East Tennessee; but “grew-up” at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Born into largely a Navy family and being a member of Navy Junior ROTC in high school, I am “the rebel bastard” who joined the US Army in 1976 and trained as an infantryman and paratrooper. 

Spending nearly 21 years on active duty, mostly at Ft Bragg in Special Operations and Airborne units, I retired in 1996 at my final active-duty assignment, stationed at McChord Air Force Base while assigned to a NORAD ground radar surveillance unit.  I began my career as an Infantryman, though I spent most of my career as a Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Operations Senior NCO. I am a Desert Storm / Desert Shield combat veteran and saw several mission deployments in Central & South America and Korea. I retired at the rank of First Sergeant.

I spent most of the next 21 years as a Department of Defense civil service employee.  My positions included assignments with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC); US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC); the 82nd Airborne Division; and Joint Forces Command (JFCOM).  This civilian service included several deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qataar, and Germany. I retired as a GS-13 - Senior Civil Servant while assigned as a Civilian Deputy Command / Resource Management Director for the Joint Communications Unit of JSOC.

I have been an NRA Trainer since 2007, and I have full credentialing in all disciplines as a Training Counselor (TC). I was selected as one of the original group of NRA Regional TC Liaisons and serve Mid-Atlantic Region 5 (North & South Carolina, Virginia, D.C. Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky).  I have assisted with several TC Development Workshops and have trained thousands of instructors and basic shooters in every discipline offered through NRA Education & Training.  I am an NRA Lifetime Benefactor member and work with the Cape Fear Friends of NRA, raising funds for the NRA Foundation.

I was selected as the NRA Education & Training 2023 COL Charles H. Mitchell Trainer of Distinction.

I have been a member of Scouting America (BSA) for 58 plus years; serving as a Shooting Sports Director (now titled Range Activities Director), and annually teaching at National Camping School to certify other Scout leaders as Range Activity Directors.  I am a member of the National Range and Target Activities committee, and I am mentoring the senior management team for shooting sports at the 2026 National Scout Jamboree (NSJ). I have been a member of this senior management team during the 2019 World Scouting Jamboree and the 2013 / 17 / 23 National Scout Jamborees at the Summit-Bechtol Reserve National High Adventure Center in West Virginia. I have served in numerous positions throughout Scouting, too many to mention here!

Locally, I am Vice-President / BOD member of Crosse Creek Rifle and Pistol Club in Cumberland County, NC.  Volunteering as a Master Hunter Education Instructor, I manage training of new instructors as well as courses for my local team and I am a member of the North Carolina Hunter Education Advisory Council. I am an NC Conceal Carry Handgun (NC CCH) instructor and member of our new NC CCH Instructor Association.

I have been a 4H Shooting Club leader and member of the local wildlife club’s Board of Directors. 
Other instructor activities include NMLRA Master Trainer; USA Archery / National Field Archery Level 3-NTS/IT Coach; Level 2 NRA/CMP Smallbore & Air Rifle Coach; ECSI & ARC Wilderness First Responder, First Aid/CPR/AED Instructor.

Organizational memberships include:
Lifetime Member –  Grass Roots Northh Caroina (the best grass roots organization for gun rights in the USA!), The American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, 82d Airborne Division Assn,  International Hunter Education Assn, US Army Chemical Corps Regiment Assn, NC Bowhunters Assn.
Member:  USA Archery, National Field Archery Assn, US Law Shield,  National Shooting Sports Foundation, International Assn of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors.

I strongly believe in our personal freedoms and God-given rights, many of which are enshrined within the United States Constitution.  I believe our personal freedoms are constantly under attack from liberal and progressive forces.  I encourage all US Citizens to EDUCATE yourself on the Constitution, your freedoms guaranteed therein, and to use only those businesses that support ALL of your freedoms and rights.

I call for a boycott of these businesses or corporations that are taking action to erode your freedoms and rights: Dick's Sporting Goods; Field & Stream; WalMart; Levi's; Chipotle's; Chili's; Starbucks; Sonic; Target; Panera Bread; WhataBurger; any business that posts signs on their premises indicating that you must give up any or part of your freedoms and rights to patronize them.