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FORT HOOD, Texas – Approximately 30 soldiers from the 3rd “Gladiator” Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division participated in a 250-mile motorcycle mentorship ride April 5, from here to Taylor, Texas, and back.
Sgt. 1st Class Torres Carr, a native of Moultrie, Ga., a motorcycle rider with more than 19 years of riding experience and soldier assigned to the Gladiator Battalion led the mentorship ride.
The group included experienced riders like Command Sgt. Maj. Michael R. Williams, a native of Omaha, Neb., and the Gladiator command sergeant major with approximately 30 years of riding experience, to two soldiers with less than one year of experience.
The day was comprised of much more than the scenic ride from Fort Hood south to Taylor, and eventually back to the Gladiator’s home base.
Before the riders took off on their mentorship ride they conducted safety checks, attended a safety briefing, led by Carr, and a follow-up briefing from Williams in the battalion parking lot.
Some topics discussed were proper maintenance of the bikes, techniques used for safe and effective riding, rules of the road, and rules unique to military riders.
“We will be watching you and you will be watching each other to make sure we all ride safely,” Williams said. “We will conduct an AAR (After Action Review) when we get back and discuss what happened along the way.”
Aside from being a quarterly requirement, the ride is a chance for senior and junior riders to build unit cohesion, find mentors for safer riding, and overall enhance the unit’s safety and readiness.
“This is my first mentorship ride,” explained Spc. Carl Czadzeck, a native of LeRoy, N.Y. “I’m looking forward to just getting out there and riding.”
Czadzeck is one of the least experienced riders in the group and was riding the oldest motorcycle, a 1985 Honda Sabre given to him by his father.
But like all of the other 28 bikes on the ride, Czadzeck’s bike was inspected and blessed off on by the motorcycle mentors who conducted a multi-point inspection of the bikes.
“We check every bike before every mentorship ride which is conducted every quarter,” said 1st Lt. Eric Deblaey, the motorcycle mentor for Company A, 3rd BSTB, and a native of Milwaukee.
The group stopped in Taylor and enjoyed lunch at before heading back to Fort Hood.
It’s the goal of the Gladiators as a team, and the need by each individual rider, to become as safe as possible and at the same time enjoy the ride responsibly, Deblaey concluded.
| Date Taken: | 04.05.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 04.12.2013 16:11 |
| Story ID: | 105112 |
| Location: | FORT HOOD, TX, US |
| Hometown: | BAYAMON, PR |
| Hometown: | MILWAUKEE, WI, US |
| Hometown: | MOULTRIE, GA, US |
| Hometown: | OMAHA, NE, US |
| Hometown: | SEATTLE, WA, US |
| Hometown: | TAYLOR, TX, US |
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