HQDA level competition will take place at Fort Bragg North Carolina 02-16 OCT 2025.
The most influential level of leadership is at the Squad — where the majority of our Soldiers reside. "Squad" extends beyond a traditional infantry squad to any small-unit group of Soldiers, connected by a squad leader, who has the most direct impact on their lives. Soldiers never fight alone, the...
South Carolina hosts the 2025 Region Three Best Warrior Competition, where NCOs and Soldiers from different states battle for the top spot. The states competing are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Maryland National Guard’s State Best Warrior Competition is a multi-day marathon of physical and mental challenges, designed to test the tactical skill, endurance, and professionalism of the state’s top junior enlisted Soldiers, noncommissioned officers, and officers. Competitors face events ranging from land navigation and marksmanship to ruck marches and formal boards—all...
Arctic Warrior 21 is a cold weather training event that includes airborne operations, situational training exercises (STX), and a live fire exercise, all occurring from Feb. 8-19, in both the Donnelly Training Area and Richardson Training Area. A battalion task force that includes cavalry, engineer, and sustainment units for support, will conduct an airborne insertion to Donnelly Drop Zone and...
The Georgia Army National Guard hosts their State Best Warrior Competition March 9 through 14, 2025, at the Cumming Readiness Center in Cumming, Georgia, the Catoosa Volunteer Training Site, Ringgold, Georgia and Tullahoma, Tennessee. Georgia Army National Guardsmen and country of Georgia Defense Force soldiers strengthened their 30-year partnership through competition while promoting esprit...
Operation Sandcastle is a joint Field Training Exercise, FTX, designed to test Soldiers and their capabilities within a simulated large scale combat operations (LSCO) environment. This exercise consist of components that will ensure proper collective training of unit mission essential tasks while continuing to solidify Soldiers’ competencies of Army warrior tasks (AWTs); to include Tactical...
The Marietta-based 78th Troop Command, Georgia Army National Guard, conducts the 2025 iteration of 78th Troop Command Best Warrior Competition at the Clay National Guard Center, Marietta, Georgia, Jan. 31 - Feb. 2, 2025. The competition demonstrates the readiness and lethality of 78th Troop Command Soldiers by testing the competitors with physical fitness assessments, written exams, and other...
The West Virginia Army National Guard (WVARNG) conducts the 2025 Best Warrior Competition at Camp Dawson in Kingwood, West Virginia, Jan. 27-29, 2025 and the National Service Academy (NSA) in Doha, Qatar, from Jan. 30 - 10 Feb., 2025.
BWC25 will be the first time a National Guard Bureau (NGB) organization has conducted a BWC OCONUS with a State Partnership Program (SPP) country.
