best warrior competition

This edition features a story on the 8th Army Best Warrior Competition 2010. Hosted by Spc. Jamie Mannion.

Cpl. Sabrina Martinez KVIA-TV reporter in El Paso, Texas about being a participant in the Best Warrior Competition.

Staff Sgt. Adam Sahlberg talks to an Auburn Journal reporter about being a participant in the Best Warrior Competition.

Staff Sgt. Christopher McDougall from Indianapolis, Ind. talks to a military reporter about his participation in the Best Warrior Competition, the knowledge he has gained, the most challenging event.

Cpl. Sabrina Martinez from El Paso, Texas, talks to a KFOX-TV reporter in El Paso, Texas about being a participant in the Best Warrior Competition.

Staff Sgt. Eddy Barba Reno, Nev. talks to a military reporter about his participation in the Best Warrior Competition, the knowledge he has gained, the most challenging event.

Package about soldiers competing during the IMCOM Best Warrior competition. Produced by Shayna Brouker. Includes soundbites from Command Sgt. Maj. Wayne LaClair - IMCOM Best Warrior Competition Team Lead, Keith Smith - Installation Management Command, and Sgts. Jacob Brewster and Dane Jordan - IMCOM Best Warrior competitors. Also available in high definition. After an exhausting week of rucking, wrestling, shooting and soldiering, each of the nine best Soldiers and noncommissioned officers in the U.S. Army Installation Management Command received an award for participating in the command's first-ever Best Warrior competition. But only two became Soldier and NCO of the Year. Sgt. Jeremy Brake, an automated logistics specialist for U.S. Army Garrison Daegu, representing the IMCOM Korea region, was named NCO of the Year. Spc. Jonathan Melendez, a military police officer for USAG Schinnen, Netherlands, representing IMCOM Europe, was named Soldier of the Year for the command. Sgt. Jacob A. Brewster from USAG Stuttgart and Spc. Paige Plumlee from USAG West Point, N.Y., were runners up. The event took place May 22-26 in the rolling hills of Camp Bullis near San Antonio, Texas. Brake and Melendez will go on to represent IMCOM at the Army-wide Best Warrior Competition in October at Fort Lee, Va. At the Army level, they will face the same challenges they overcame in Texas, including a board appearance, weapons qualification, 12-mile road march, day and night land navigation, warrior tasks testing and combatives " though likely in cooler conditions. Fort Lee averages 72 degrees Fahrenheit in October, while the average temperature in San Antonio hovered around 95 degrees throughout the competition week. All competitors were winners no less, said Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch, commanding general of IMCOM, addressing the Soldiers alongside IMCOM Command Sgt. Maj. Neil Ciotola. "Don't leave this competition thinking you're not a winner," Lynch said. "You're all winners. Noncommissioned officers are the backbone of the Army. Officers might come up with the ideas, but you all are the ones who get it done." All nine competitors received a small statue commemorating their experience at Camp Bullis, and the winners were given a shadow box containing a coin from each of the IMCOM garrison commanders as well as a $1,000 savings bonds from Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command. Both Menendez and Brake credited their family, sponsors, garrisons, regions -- and fellow competitors -- for getting them this far. "Winning this competition was very challenging because I had to distinguish myself from all these great warriors," Menendez said. "I would not have been able to achieve this without the support of my wife, Mary, my parents and the outstanding leadership I have had throughout my military career." Brake echoed his sentiment with a nod toward the eight other Soldiers he battled alongside and against over the past five days. "It's been a crazy week, everybody," Brake said. "To the rest of the competitors, you guys are outstanding. Each and every one of you could have been standing up here." Ciotola, who led the competition, took time to commend the competitors, highlight the purpose of the five-day event and outline the mission of IMCOM " to support and sustain the Army's home. The IMCOM Best Warriors continue a tradition going back to the very beginning of the U.S. Army, Ciotola said. "Six companies of expert riflemen formed the foundation of what we've become " the most feared and revered land fighting force in the history of humanity. And you represent that. That's who you are. I'm so proud of you," he said. "You lift me up, you fill my heart, you have proven my words: That you have boundless potential. Don't ever be satisfied with what you are." For more stories, video and photos of the 2011 IMCOM Best Warrior competition, visit http://www.facebook.com/IMCOMBestWarrior.

B-roll of the U.S. Army Reserve's Best Warrior Competition 2011 held in Fort McCoy, Wis. Scenes include Soldiers competing in the physical fitness part of the competition.

B-roll of the combatives tournament held at Fort McCoy, Wis. as part of the U.S. Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition.

Sgt. Maj. Chandler talks to a military reporter about the Best Warrior Competition and what kind of person it takes to be the Best Warrior, what the event means to him and what Soldiers should bring back from the competition.

Texas Military Forces recently held their first joint-service “Best Warrior Competition” at the Texas Army National Guard’s Camp Swift, Texas. The three-day long event consisted of a 6-mile road march, an obstacle course, the use of combat arms, a land navigation exercise, proficiency in various warrior tasks, writing and essay and appearing before a military board. Story by Tech. Sgt. Matt Schwartz.

Six National Guard Soldiers competed to represent the Nevada Guard 757th Combat sustainment Support Battalion in the Army's Best Warrior Competition. Available in high definition.

Once a year Camp Swift serves as battlegrounds for Texas military departments' Best Warrior Competition. Story by Tech. Sgt. Tamara Dabney.

When Army National Guardsmen from seven states and one territory compete for the same title, the competition is fierce. However, adversaries quickly became friends at the Region 7 Best Warrior Competition held at Camp Navaho, Arizona recently. Sgt. 1st Class Robert Freese reports.

In this Pacific Newsbreak, the U.S. Army in Japan Best Warrior competition kicks off in Okinawa, and sailors in Sasebo are tested on combining air and sea capabilities.

In this Pacific Newsbreak, service members compete in U.S. Army Japan's Best Warrior Competition in Okinawa, and U.S. Army Japan Commander Major General James Pasquarette speaks on the importance of regional partnerships.

US Army Japan Soldiers compete in the Best Warrior Competition and exercise Cobra Gold continues in Thailand.

Six non-commissioned officers and three Soldiers from around the world compete in the 2018 U.S. Army Medical Command Best Warrior Competition in San Antonio, Texas.

Six non-commissioned officers and three Soldiers from around the world competed in the 2018 U.S. Army Medical Command Best Warrior Competition June 23-28, 2018, in San Antonio, Texas. Of the nine competitors, Sgt. Joshua Meyer, Medical Research and Materiel Command, and Sgt. Beatrice Clark, Regional Health Command-Central, were named the NCO and Soldier (respectively) 2018 MEDCOM Best Warrior of the Year.