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...
Emerald Warrior is a U.S. Special Operations Command-sponsored two-week joint/combined tactical exercise designed to provide realistic military training in an urban setting.
The purpose of the training for Warrior Shield, is to further enhance the ROK and U.S. militaries’ cooperation through air, land, sea, space, cyber and special operations, and improve upon tactics, techniques and procedures
The 2024 Army Reserve Best Squad Competition is an annual competition that brings together the best Soldiers and squads from across the U.S. Army Reserve to earn the title of “Best Warrior” and “Best Squad” among their peers. Competitors are evaluated on their individual and collective ability to adapt to and overcome challenging scenarios and battle-focus events that test their...
Vermont hosts the 2024 National Best Warrior Competition at the Ethan Allen Firing Range in Jericho, VT. NCO and Junior Enlisted Soldiers competing have won their state and regional competitions to make their way to the national competition.
