{"id":321,"date":"2015-09-14T05:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/?p=321"},"modified":"2017-07-19T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T15:00:25","slug":"medical-warrior-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/2015\/09\/14\/medical-warrior-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Warrior Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sgt. 1st Class Thaddeus Harrington, MD National Guard Public Affairs Office \u2014<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The Maryland Army National Guard\u2019s 104th Area Support Medical Company conducted its first Medical Warrior Challenge competition, on Sept. 12, 2015, to build teamwork and strengthen esprit de corps within the unit. The competition took place at Camp Fretterd Military Reservation near Reisterstown, Md., and included a 500-group push-up event, 9-line medevacs, medical scenarios, sked litter obstacle course, land navigation, and road march.<\/p>\n

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Soldiers participate in the sked litter obstacle course to move full MRE boxes, ammo cans, and water containers up a hill and back down. All while not dropping anything and doing it as a team.<\/p>\n

\u201cTowards the end, when we had the downpour, we saw that their times were 6 or 7 minutes faster then the teams who had the dryer conditions,\u201d said 1st Lt. Kristen Santos, sked litter obstacle course grader. \u201cThey fought through it and continued to push through.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Teamwork is a major component of the challenge, each team had to complete 500 push ups in the shortest time possible. Team lead positions were assigned to junior noncommissioned officers so they could gain experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only do you have to respect people at a higher rank but you respect the junior enlisted as well,\u201d said Sgt. Anthony Eeccio, emergency care NCO in the treatment platoon. \u201cIf a private comes up to you with a better idea that you didn\u2019t think of, you have to respect that, and you can use it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Not all of the unit members are medics, health care specialists to be exact, but they all participated as a team in the medical lanes event. Here, the team had to apply tourniquets, having all members engaged in the task.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had people who were medics and people who weren\u2019t medics and they had to jump in and remember their CLS (Combat Lifesaver) skills,\u201d said Sgt. Anthony Eeccio. \u201cThe fact that they could recall that information is pivotal in our success in the task.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The teams had to plot land navigation points to the different stations spread out over Camp Fretterd and had to move on foot to each location.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the first time I\u2019ve done a competition like this an I\u2019m highly impressed by it,\u201d said Sgt. Chae McFadden, a health care specialist. \u201cIt\u2019s a good time for it and a good place for it. If we could do more of them I\u2019d be up for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt make me proud to be a member of this company just to see how much the soldiers put forth,\u201d said 1st Lt. Kristen Santos. \u201cI know a lot of them weren\u2019t pleased with this kind of challenge, especially given the weather, but they made the most of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In addition to moving from each point on foot, the challenge concluded with a ruck march from the rappel tower to their readiness center where showers and lunch awaited.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt motivates us as officers and senior noncommissioned officers to be better leadership for our soldiers and give these opportunities to them,\u201d said 1st Lt. Kristen Santos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Maryland Army National Guard\u2019s 104th Area Support Medical Company conducted its first Medical Warrior Challenge competition, on Sept. 12, 2015, to build teamwork and strengthen esprit de corps within the unit. The competition took place at Camp Fretterd Military Reservation near Reisterstown, Md., and included a 500-group push-up event, 9-line medevacs, medical scenarios, sked litter obstacle course, land navigation, and road march.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[211,362,90,365,363,361,364],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-104th-area-support-medical-company","tag-9-line-medevacs","tag-camp-fretterd-military-reservation","tag-land-navigation","tag-medical-scenarios","tag-medical-warrior-challenge-competition","tag-sked-litter-obstacle-course"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}