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SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The 228th Theater Tactical Signal Brigade conducted the Best Warrior Competition Oct. 31 - Nov. 2 at the University Readiness Center in Spartanburg, S.C., to identify the Best Warrior Noncommissioned Officer and Best Warrior Soldier to represent the brigade at the state-level competition.
Sgt. Brian Lemieux was selected as the Best Warrior Noncommissioned Officer and Spc. Lyubomir Mironenko was selected as the Best Warrior Soldier for the 228th TTSB.
“It was a challenging competition because you’re doing tasks that you don’t normally do,” said Lemieux. “But I try to do my best in everything I do.”
The tasks included an Army Physical Fitness Test, land navigation and ruck march combination event, Warrior Tasks and Battle Drills, a written test, an essay, individual weapons qualification and an appearance in front of a board of high ranking enlisted leadership from the brigade.
“Every event has a real-world application behind it,” said Command Sgt. Maj. William Bostic, 228th TTSB command sergeant major. “Whether it’s attention to detail or getting a last minute task and making it happen, these are all situations that soldiers will face in their military careers.”
He added that these tasks are meant to be skill sets that every soldier is expected to be familiar with, regardless of military occupational specialty, so that no one soldier has an unfair advantage based on their military experience. The WTBDs included performing first aid for a bleeding extremity, searching a detainee, evaluating a casualty, conducting a SALUTE report (size, activity, location, uniform, time and equipment), and calling up a nine-line medevac.
The events are designed to be physically and mentally challenging to push the soldiers out of their comfort zones and see how they operate under strenuous conditions.
“It was definitely a soldier’s challenge,” said Spc. Kennith Wingard, 198th ESB Bravo Company competitor.
Each competitor was chosen by their assigned company to compete at the brigade-level based on past accomplishments and performance. The competitors included Sgt. Brian Lemieux, 228th TTSB Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Staff Sgt. Brittney Clinkscales, 151st Expeditionary Signal Battalion HHC, Sgt. Jason McGaha, 151st ESB Alpha Company, Pfc. Reard Patton, 151st ESB Alpha Company, Sgt. Robert Dendy Jr., 151st ESB Bravo Company, Spc. Lyubomir Mironenko, 151st ESB Bravo Company, Sgt. Cody Mynatt, 198th ESB Bravo Company, and Spc. Kennith Wingard, 198th ESB Bravo Company.
Lemieux and Mironenko will compete in the weeklong state competition in January 2015 against competitors from units across South Carolina. As representatives of the brigade, they have a great deal to live up to with the winner of the 2014 state competition being Sgt. Brandon Bright of the 228th TTSB.
Mynatt and Wingard were chosen as runner ups and will take the place of Lemieux or Mironenko if they are not able to compete.
| Date Taken: | 11.02.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 11.02.2014 14:56 |
| Story ID: | 146779 |
| Location: | SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
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