Son of Robins master sergeant to compete in junior olympics Published July 1, 2010 By Wayne Crenshaw 78 ABW/PA ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- The son of a Robins senior NCO will participate in the trap shooting competition in the upcoming National Junior Olympic Championships. Justin Brooks, son of Senior Master Sgt. Rodney Brooks, earned a spot by winning a regional qualifying event in double trap shooting and finishing second in single trap. In the doubles competition, two clay targets are fired out of a bunker in front of the shooter and in singles, one target is fired. The regional competition was in Moultrie in May. The nationals will be held July 17-22 in Colorado Springs, Colo. Brooks, 17, is entering his senior year at Perry High School. He became interested in trap shooting when he took a hunter's safety course at age 14. At the end of the course participants were allowed to shoot skeet, and Brooks did so well, he was encouraged to hone his skills. "I kind of got hooked on it then," he said. Moultrie has the only public range in Georgia where international-rules trap shooting can be practiced. Brooks travels there two times per week. Brooks is making his second try at the Junior Olympics. He finished 10th in the games two years ago and hopes to do better this time. He even hopes to make the Olympic Games to be held in London in 2012. He has shot with Fort Benning soldiers who won gold medals in trap and skeet shooting in the 2008 Bejiing Olympics. Brooks' father is a B-1 program manager in the 561st Combat Sustainment Squadron. "He has the drive to do well at it, and makes the time to go down there and practice," he said