This April 23rd marks the 105th birthday of the U.S. Army Reserve. On that day in 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt signed into public law Senate Bill 1424, creating the Medical Reserve Corps. It authorized the Army to acquire a reserve pool of medical officers who could be ordered to active duty in the event of an emergency, a step whose importance the Medical Department authorities...
The 2016 U.S. Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition is the premier showcase for U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers to demonstrate their technical and tactical skills to determine the top noncommissioned officer and junior enlisted Soldier from the 195,000 men and women serving as America's Warrior-Citizens. The top NCO and Soldier will represent the U.S. Army Reserve at the Department of the Army Best...
The Army Reserve’s Best Warrior Competition will be held at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst June 23-27, 2014. This is the first year the competition will be conducted at this location. The two winners will be selected as the Army Reserve’s Soldier and NCO of the Year and will compete against winners from the major Army commands in October at Fort Lee, Va. Approximately 52 Soldiers from...
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The Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Cadet Summer Training kicked off at Fort Knox, Ky. - U.S. on June 3. CST will host nearly 14,000 cadets and active-duty and reserve Soldiers throughout the summer. CST, which will rotate through 10 Cadet Leader Course regiments and nine Cadet Initial Entry Training, is a rigorous, four-week exercise that will see nearly 9,000 cadets through graduation...
The Brigade Ranger Challenge is the Army ROTC Varsity Sport. Teams form early in the semester and train rigorously nearly every morning of the week. Ranger Challenge team members accomplish more before 0800 then most college students accomplish in an entire day. Teams train all the way up until the Brigade Ranger Challenge Competition.
This competition is conducted over two days on a...
The 2015 DoD Warrior Games is an adaptive sports competition for wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans. The Warrior Games, founded in 2010, are designed to introduce wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans to adaptive sports, encourage them to stay physically active when they return to their local communities and inspire and promote opportunities for growth and...
Army Trials 2016 are March 6-10 at Fort Bliss, Texas. Army Trials is a series of adaptive sporting events for wounded, ill and injured Soldiers and Veterans, and helps determine which athletes will represent Team Army during the 2016 Department of Defense Warrior Games. More than 100 wounded, ill and injured Soldiers and Veterans from across the country are traveling to Fort Bliss to train...
