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FORT HUNTER LIGGETT, CA – So few are willing to pay the price to become it. They all want it. But there can be only one noncommissioned officer and one enlisted 2016 U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command Best Warrior. Twenty-one came here to claim the title of best warrior.
“These are the cream of the crop, these are the best qualified of every one of our units that are going to compete against each other and then represent the command at the Army Reserve Command and the Army,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Peter Running, the senior enlisted advisor for USACAPOC. “It is one of the most important and significant events that the NCO corps holds. It is a primarily NCO driven event which gages, across the entire command, the level of the proficiency of our Soldiers.”
Running congratulated the winners of the competition after a grueling weeklong challenge during April 3-7.
The 2016 USACAPOC Best Warrior noncommissioned officer of the year is Staff Sgt. Alex Herrmann, a civil affairs specialist from Amarillo, Texas, representing the 350th Civil Affairs Command out of Pensacola, Florida.
The enlisted Soldier winner is Spc. Ian Duprey, a chaplain's assistant from Hague, Va., representing the 437th Civil Affairs Battalion from Fort Story, Va.
“I think I’m going to do really well,” said Duprey about the next stage of the competition. “I know what I need to work on, so I will get started as soon as I can.”
There are lots of tasks to work on in the short month before the U.S. Army Reserve competition kicks off.
For this competition, there were over 10 tasks: a 6.2-mile ruck march, an Army Physical Fitness Test, the M16 rifle qualification, written exam and oral board, night fire, night and day land navigation course, along with various mystery events and warrior tasks. The events challenged the competitors physically and mentally.
“I definitely have a lot more preparation to conduct, as the events get higher they get harder. So I have a lot of preparation to do, but I hope to represent USACAPOC well,” said Herrmann.
The winners of the competition will move on to compete against the other major commands in the U.S. Army Reserve NCO and enlisted winners next month at Fort Bragg, N.C.
| Date Taken: | 04.09.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 04.09.2016 12:05 |
| Story ID: | 194899 |
| Location: | FORT HUNTER LIGGETT, CA, US |
| Hometown: | AMARILLO, TX, US |
| Hometown: | HAGUE, VA, US |
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