Michigan National Guard wins Fort Benning’s 2016 International Sniper Competition. After 96 hours of competition that featured 21 day and night events, a three-mile run with weapons and equipment, an eight-mile ruck and very little sleep, Sgt. Saykham Keophalychanh and Sgt. Nicolas Mitchell of Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 126th Infantry Regiment, out competed 42 other teams to take home the International Sniper Team Trophy.