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FORT HOOD, Texas – Day Three of the Best Warrior Competition at Fort Hood, Texas was a tough one for the ten candidates, which consisted of a 12-mile road march, CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear), an obstacle course, which incorporated administering medical care while under fire, and call for fire event, which tested their ability to request simulated artillery on a target.
“This competition tests their mental and physical endurance, as well as, their technical and tactical knowledge of the military,” said Master Sgt. Tony Reese, operations noncommissioned officer for Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, III Corps.
For one NCO, this was an opportunity to set a good example for his Soldiers.
“In the Best Warrior competition, units send their best (noncommissioned officers) and junior Soldiers and I want to give my Soldiers someone to look up to,” Staff Sgt. Dominique Cooper, a military policeman with the 89th Military Police Brigade stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. “I just want to show my Soldiers that if I’m here, then they can be here.”
After the road march and CBRN events, Cooper stated that having stamina was key to being successful when competing in something like this.
“It’s pretty grueling,” said the Paris, Texas native. “There’s so much over a short period of time. I wasn’t expecting it to take a lot out of me like it did.”
Although the competition is a test of what the Soldier knows, Reese hoped the candidates would take these events as ideas for the kind of training they can do with their own Soldiers.
“I hope they start doing some critical thinking of ways to train their Soldiers to make it fun, instead of the normal everyday training,” he said.
Although there were some things Cooper wished he knew beforehand, he hoped to learn from those areas.
“I hope to gain some knowledge of what I can do and things that I didn’t know, for example, call for fire isn’t something that MPs train on so I’ll gain that knowledge.”
When it was all over, Cooper was the overall winner of the 2016 Best Warrior Competition.
| Date Taken: | 06.22.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 06.30.2016 23:20 |
| Story ID: | 202573 |
| Location: | FORT HOOD, TX, US |
| Hometown: | PARIS, TX, US |
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