{"id":20363,"date":"2012-05-26T00:58:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T00:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=20363"},"modified":"2012-05-26T00:58:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T00:58:55","slug":"rebuenog-is-this-years-top-gun-cpa-defends-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rebuenog-is-this-years-top-gun-cpa-defends-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuenog is this year&#8217;s Top Gun; CPA defends title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns119194.jpg\" alt=\"Commonwealth Ports Authority's Capt. Juan Rebuenog is this year's Top Gun champion. (Ferdie de la Torre)\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 Commonwealth Ports Authority&#8217;s Capt. Juan Rebuenog is this year&#8217;s Top Gun champion while his CPA team defended its title in the team category.<\/p>\n<p>Rebuenog bested 14 other participants from different law enforcement agencies during the joint federal and local law enforcement&#8217;s annual Top Gun competition held yesterday at the Department of Public Safety&#8217;s shooting range in San Juan.<\/p>\n<p>CPA&#8217;s main team-composed of Rebuenog, Capt. Joe Palacios, and police officers Manny Degracia and Jason Cruz-emerged champion again by defeating five other teams. CPA fielded a second team.<\/p>\n<p>Police officer Rhonda John was the only participant in the individual female competition.<\/p>\n<p>In the individual category using s .9mm pistol, Rebuenog grabbed first place with his 56:97 time. Division of Fish and Wildlife&#8217;s Anthony Mareham came second with 54:63 time.<\/p>\n<p>As the time was too close, organizers decided to have another round between the two. Rebuenog remained steady by registering a time of 55:97, while Mareham dropped to 59:97, allowing Rebuenog to grab the title.<\/p>\n<p>In the four-member team competition, Rebuenog joined the defending champion CPA team to defeat five other teams with a time of 3 minutes and 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The DPS team was second with a time of 3 minutes and 53 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>In the team competition, the participants fired a rifle, a shotgun, a submachine gun, and a .9 mm pistol.<\/p>\n<p>It is CPA&#8217;s sixth year in a row to win the plum since the Top Gun competition was launched in February 2006. There was no competition last year.<\/p>\n<p>Police officer Jason Tarkong and police officer 2 David Hosono said they eliminated firearm instructors from joining this year&#8217;s competition to encourage more participants. Tarkong and Hosono are both certified firearm instructors.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI did not join this year because some of the agents are certified firearm instructors. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fielded two agents in the individual competition.<\/p>\n<p>Rebuenog received a trophy, while CPA kept the perpetual trophy and bragging rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter \u00a0 Commonwealth Ports Authority&#8217;s Capt. Juan Rebuenog is this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}