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Ranger Challenge Ranger Challenge is an annual competition that takes place with twelve different schools down near San Antonio at Camp Bullis. This year Ranger challenge had 6 events, which included the one rope bridge, 10k Foot “March”, Assess a casualty, M16 Weapons Assembly Disassembly, Obstacle course, and the “Commanders Event” which was a stress shoot this year. The One Rope Bridge consists of tying a rope, with correct knots, on both sides of a ravine, tightening the rope, and then crossing via swiss seats, with a dummy M16, LBV, and MOLLE Rucksack. For this year, the males completed the One Rope Bridge in 8:06, and the females completed in 14:22. The 10KM Foot “March” is a timed event in which competitors must complete the course with all required gear in under 1:30:00 in order to receive a go. I put “March” in parenthesis due to the fact that generally speaking most teams are not marching, they are in fact running. Due to injury setbacks this year the male team completed in 1:28:33 and the females right around the 1:38:00 Marker. The assess a casualty event is a timed event in which directly proceeding the ruck march the Ranger Challenge team creates a 360 and then the Team Leader and one recorder come into the center and assess a dummy casualty, properly bandage and tourniquet the casualty while assessing for shock and create a proper 9 line to send up to higher. The M16 Weapons Assembly Disassembly is a timed event in which competitors must completely disassemble their weapon, reassemble it, and perform a proper functions check in less than 2 minutes. The Obstacle course is an event where teams negotiate a course with nine obstacles ranging from a rope swing, to monkey bars, to pushing a van, the team to complete the obstacle course the fastest wins. The males finished the Obstacle course in 5:15 and the females completed it in 7:48. The Commanders event this year was a stress shoot. The stress shoot consisted of being led to an ORP by a “foreign national” at the ORP the Ranger Challenge team then set up security and the team leader then created a hasty plan to set up a blocking position and to navigate across a Linear danger area. Upon crossing the Linear danger area the SL positioned his team as he/she saw fit on the firing line, setting up sectors of fire, distributing ammunition within his squad and then having the entire team calling out targets as they appeared. The scoring for this event was whichever team scored the most hits on the targets. The male team won first place for this event, and the females won second. All in all the teams did very well this year. The Female team placed second overall and the male team placed third. It was a huge improvement for the males from last year in which we placed last place. The teams worked incredibly hard from the start of the school year doing PT Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then Ruck marches on Saturday. Our success can also be contributed to the guidance of Cadet Lindert, our MSV in charge who helped guide us to success. The Male team this year was comprised of seven males, Cadet Bjorn (OIC of RC), Cadet Liu, Cadet Carson, Cadet Lowe, Cadet Chandler, Cadet Huffaker, and Cadet McPherson. The female team consisted of Cadet Wilson, Kara (Female OIC), Cadet Willits, Cadet Bach, Cadet Drew, Cadet Bowe, and Cadet Jennings.
Fall FTX This year's fall Field Training Exercise for the TCU Horned Frog and UNT Mean Green cadets and cadre took place at Fort Wolters, <strong>Texas</strong> on 14-16 October. Without a doubt, the words best describing the weekend were "Land Navigation Training, Thank you, May I have some more!" Training started quickly mid-day Friday with UNT's advance party setting up and starting the MS IIIs, IIs and Is on a dayinto-night land navigation course. Afterwards, everyone slept outdoors for a few hours that night. Saturday morning started well before sun-up with the MS IIIs and IIs organized and moving out as infantry squads running through seven different Situational Training Exercise lanes fighting the tough, black-shirted, SAPA enemy forces. The MS Is, in separate training, honed their small team leadership skills by participating in paint-ball force-on-force, "Capture the Flag" training. Fortunately, they were able to also participate in an "Attack-Point, Buddy-Team, Land Navigation Course" as well. You can never get enough "Land Navigation!" Saturday evening, cadre and MS IV cadets made a strong effort to get everyone bedded down quickly due to an early morning rise Sunday to start for the third time, another "Land Navigation Training Course. “ This time, training went from night to day. Once the weekend's training was complete, cadets gave feedback that they were thoroughly exhausted with sore and some blistered feet but overall pleased with the focus and effort to provide multiple land navigation opportunities. All in all, across the board, Horned Frog and Mean Green Battalion cadets left the weekend with a much stronger grasp and individual confidence in land navigation! Leaders Developed Here! Joel Coleman Courtney Ingram (MSIII) -"I received great training and now feel much more confident in doing land navigation." Kelsi Holland (MSII) - FTX was a great experience for me because I was able to get more acquainted with Land Navigation. This FTX was my third time attending and I could adapt and understand what was going on. I found that it enhanced my ability to take orders and gave me a more hands on experience." Kyle Weinerth (MSI) - FTX was full of "delicious" MREs and blistered feet, but was overall a great learning experience.
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