Photo by Monica Wood | Fort Sill Public Affairs | 05.16.2023
First-day trainees with Fort Sill’s 1-31st FA Battalion run across the track with their drill sergeant demonstrating the First 100 Yards training. The training focuses on teamwork as trainees work together from the start to accomplish objectives like racing as part of the team to tag the next team and stay together. Some step out of their shell and become a self-appointed leader, while......
Photo by Monica Wood | Fort Sill Public Affairs | 05.16.2023
Trainees with 1-31st FA Battalion race across the track at Fort Sill’s Hellcat Field with kettle bells on their first day of training. They learn about teamwork with the First 100 Yards training which focuses on larger collective games rather than breaking the individual down and then building him/her back up with the Army values. Trainees do a series of teambuilding events such as moving......
Photo by Monica Wood | Fort Sill Public Affairs | 05.16.2023
First-day trainees with Fort Sill’s 1-31st FA Battalion learn what being a member of the time-honored Army team means as they team up with their battle buddy to move weights across the field. Some of the trainees aren’t citizens of the United States yet but they are eligible to become citizens after one day of federal service. According to staff members of 1-31st FA, they will probably......
Photo by Monica Wood | Fort Sill Public Affairs | 05.16.2023
Trainees who are in the first day of basic training with Fort Sill’s 1-31st FA Battalion learn the importance of teamwork through a series of teambuilding events such as moving equipment across the track on Hellcat Field. The trainees are learning you can be the best at everything as an individual but if you’re missing 40 people behind you, you’re not really a team player. Your job is to......
Photo by Monica Wood | Fort Sill Public Affairs | 05.16.2023
Drill Sergeants keep a close eye on first-day trainees with 1st Battalion, 31st Field Artillery, to ensure they understand the importance of working together to achieve their task of bringing a dummy on a gurney across with the track without dropping the gurney. Most of the BCT trainees who come through Fort Sill are medical support. Medics work in hospitals, intelligence analysts, linguists......
Photo by Monica Wood | Fort Sill Public Affairs | 05.16.2023
First-day Basic Combat Training trainees from 1-31st FA try to pick up the gurney together and find it isn’t as easy as it looks as one trainee doesn’t lift and stand at the same time and almost tips the dummy off the gurney. The training is part of the First 100 Yards training which focuses on teamwork to accomplish the mission. The First 100 was the transition from the shark attack as......
Photo by Monica Wood | Fort Sill Public Affairs | 05.16.2023
Trainees on their first day of Basic Combat Training with 1st Battalion, 31st Field Artillery, 434th Brigade, gather on Fort Sill’s Hellcat Field to listen to inspirational speeches from each member of the battery. Then the drill sergeants demonstrate team-building events such as moving a dummy on a gurney from one end of the track together as a team. The purpose of the exercise is for them......
