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MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. - “We are two time champions,” said Staff Sgt. Ryan Fontaine, 219th Security Forces Squadron team coach. “I don’t think this year is going to be much different.”
Members of the 91st Security Forces Group are gearing up to compete in the 2014 Global Strike Challenge.
“We’ve been training really hard, and I know were going to bring home the Charlie Team Five trophy again,” said Capt. Kyle Yates, 91st SFG team leader.
In conjunction with the Air National Guard, Minot Air Force Base is sending a joint team of defenders to represent the missile wing.
“This year, Team Minot is sending security forces members from both the 91st SFG and 219th SFS in a joint team to compete against our brethren in the other wings around Global Strike Command,” Yates said.
The tryout to make the team consisted of an Air Force physical fitness test, as well as other tactics training and weapons qualifications.
“We had 30 participants try out, and from those 30 we were able to select our team,” Fontaine said.
The competition will consist of weapons firing, tactics training, as well as the mental and physical challenge.
To train, Fontaine says the team starts their day at roughly 7:00 a.m., with 2-3 hours of physical fitness training every day.
“We’ve also been focusing on close-quarters battles and close-quarters combat, weapons assembly and reassembly, small unit tactics, individual moving tactics, self-aid-buddy-care, as well as other numerous things,” Fontaine said.
The competitors' individual skills will be put to the ultimate test, but they must also work together as a team to win.
“I got a lot of tough security forces guys behind me that’ve been training hard, putting in long hours and we’re going to bring it to Camp Guernsey -- so they better be ready for us,” Yates said.
| Date Taken: | 09.04.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 10.27.2014 11:42 |
| Story ID: | 146155 |
| Location: | MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, ND, US |
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