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FORT HOOD, Texas – Partnership and international relations are not foreign concepts for Phantom Warrior Week’s champion soccer team, the 1st Brigade Combat Team “Ironhorse,” 1st Cavalry Division.
To celebrate their victory in the recent post-wide competition, 1BCT Soldiers practiced camaraderie through competition Sept. 22 during a friendly soccer match against Royal Netherlands Army soldiers assigned to the 11th Air Mobile Brigade attached to 21st Cavalry Brigade here.
Since the host team’s mission this year revolves around multi-national partnership through a series of overseas exercises, it was fitting they play against a European counterpart right in their own backyard. This fall, 1BCT will be training in five European countries alongside NATO allies during Atlantic Resolve and Combined Resolve III.
Sgt. 1st Class Ivan Alvira, a Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, native assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company “Hammer” of the Ironhorse Brigade, said the game was a good experience and could be a precursor for similar opportunities to play against European counterparts in Germany later this year.
“We got to meet people from other battalions within the brigade, and we also got to make some friendships with other units,” said Alvira, 1BCT’s assistant coach. “I think overall we did well.”
Command Sgt. Maj. James Put, the senior noncommissioned officer of the 11th Air Mobile Brigade, said he enjoyed having the opportunity to build camaraderie not only between the teams but also across Fort Hood units.
“I organized the whole game … to get our footprint out there, show people (that) Dutch soldiers are over here and show camaraderie between the soldiers after the game,” Put said. “It was a good game, a fair game and a fast game.”
Although 1BCT ended Phantom Warrior Week as the American soccer champions on post, their Dutch competitors came out on top with a 6–2 win.
“It was a (really) good game, and I thank the unit,” Put said. “I especially know how busy they are, and its great for (them) coming out over here and helping us to have a good game.”
| Date Taken: | 09.22.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 09.25.2014 12:36 |
| Story ID: | 143264 |
| Location: | FORT HOOD, TX, US |
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