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JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -0 Army Sgt. 1st Class Armando Delgado, a career counselor with the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, won his 2nd consecutive title as U.S. Army Alaska’s Career Counselor of the Year Nov. 19, 2014, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.
The two-day competition was graded from three separate events: The Army Physical Fitness Test, a written exam specifically for career counselors, and a board appearance.
“A few differences between this year’s board and last year’s,” said Delgado. “Last year I think we only had four competitors, this year we had eight.”
Delgado added the written test this year was harder and felt like it had more questions on it compared to last year’s test.
Delgado, a Rock Falls, Ill. native, said he loves his job even though the Army’s retention regulations and standards are constantly changing as the army is still downsizing and consolidating.
The Army is slated to shrink from its current 522,000 Soldiers to between 440,000 and 450,000 Soldiers over the next five years, but this was not going to stop Delgado from exceeding and taking his career to the next level.
“This is actually the first time that I have ever won a major board back to back, consecutively,” said Delgado. “I was really nervous that I wouldn’t be able to pull it off.”
Delgado has competed in several competitions, walking away with 2014’s and 2013’s USARAK awards, as well as the 18th Airborne Corps’ Career Counselor of the Year in 2010.
“Coming back to compete as a sergeant first class gave me a little bit of added confidence,” said Delgado. “I was one of the senior counselors competing this year.”
Delgado will continue to make his mark at the U.S. Army Pacific Career Counselor of the Year competition. If he wins at USARPAC, he will go on to compete in the 2015 Secretary of the Army’s Career Counselor of the Year Competition.
| Date Taken: | 11.19.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 12.03.2014 16:57 |
| Story ID: | 149316 |
| Location: | JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, AK, US |
| Hometown: | ROCK FALLS, IL, US |
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