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Archive: March, 2017

80th Training Command Soldiers Help Develop Future Leaders at JROTC Raider Challenge
March 30, 2017
80th Training Command Soldiers grade Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps high school students from across Virginia at the 17th Annual Raider Challenge hosted by Manchester High School in Midlothian, Virginia, on March 11, 2017. (Photo by Master Sgt. Stacey Everett, 80th Training Command Headquarters & Headquarters Command)
1002 QM Cooks turn up the heat for Connelly Competition
March 30, 2017
U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Christen Chambers, a food operations specialist assigned to the 1002nd Quartermaster Company in Beaumont, Texas, prepares cookie dough for baking during the Philip A. Connelly cooking competition held at Fort Polk, Louisiana, March 25, 2017. During the Philip A. Connelly Program, the U.S. Army Reserve partners with the National Restaurant Association to give food service personnel an opportunity to demonstrate their capability and combat-readiness while competing for recognition. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Master Sgt. Dave Thompson)
497th CSSB equipment arrives by seaport for Atlantic Resolve
March 30, 2017
Spc. Edgardo Melendez, motor transport operator, 18th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade, inflates tires on a truck in preparation for the first convoy to roll off the port in Gdansk, Poland, March 29, 2017. More than 640 pieces of military equipment, including 311 pieces of rolling stock and 155 containers from 17 active duty, U.S. Army Reserve and Army National Guard units arrived in Gdansk to provide support to Soldiers participating in Atlantic Resolve. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jacob A. McDonald)
Signal Soldiers tackle urban operations and obstacle course
March 30, 2017
Army Reserve Spc. Julian Ditona (center), a multi-channel transmission systems operator/maintainer, assigned to the 98th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, 335th Signal Command (Theater), swings across an obstacle at the obstacle course challenge at Fort Huachuca, Arizona March 28. Ditona and seven other Soldiers are competing in the command’s 2017 Best Warrior Competition, in hopes of representing their unit at the U.S. Army Reserve Commands 2017 Best Warrior Competition later this year. (Official U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent C. Powell)
Fort McCoy Range Maintenance Section keeps training areas ready for exercise operations
March 30, 2017
Glenn Oliver, target systems worker with the Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security Range Maintenance team, works diagnosing a problem with an automated target March 10, 2017, on Range 2 on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The work was in preparation for range use by service members training in Operation Cold Steel, an Army Reserve exercise. Range Maintenance personnel make sure range and training areas at Fort McCoy remain operational, and they take care of service members as they train on the ranges. Range Maintenance also has engineering personnel who complete various projects for the installation range complex. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)
Houston Army Reserve unit tests warrior skills at WAREX
March 30, 2017
U.S. Army Reserve 1st Lt. Kristina Samuel, Commanding Officer of the 453rd Inland Cargo Transfer Cargo Transportation Company, confers with a soldier role-playing the opposing force during WAREX 78-17-01 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst March 23, 2017. WAREX is a large-scale collective training event designed to simulate real-world events during combat. WAREX ensures that America’s Army Reserve units and Soldiers are trained and ready to deploy on short-notice bringing combat-ready and lethal firepower in support of the Total Army and our Joint Force anywhere in the world. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Master Sgt. Dave Thompson)
373rd Sharpens at Cold Steel
March 30, 2017
U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Will Hoebeck Jr., a Petroleum Specialist with the 373rd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion based in Beaumont, Texas, gets instructions from the trainer on the M2 .50 caliber machine gun in the Engagement Skills Trainer during Operation Cold Steel, at Fort McCoy, Wis., Mar. 21, 2017. Operation Cold Steel is the U.S Army Reserve’s crew-served weapons qualification and validation exercise to ensure that America’s Army Reserve units and Soldiers are trained and ready to deploy on short-notice bringing combat-ready and lethal firepower in support of the Total Army and our Joint Force anywhere in the world. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Master Sgt. Dave Thompson)
WWII Veteran Reminisces
March 29, 2017
William Dellinger, a 96-year-old veteran and native of Charlotte North Carolina reminisces on events during WWII, things he’s seen and the life he has lead, at his home Wednesday, Nov 2. Dellinger poses with his dress uniform. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Tynisha Daniel, 108th Training Command)
The 311th ESC introduces “The Year of Fitness”
March 29, 2017
To kick off “The Year of Fitness,” Brig. Gen. David E. Elwell, 311th Expeditionary Sustainment Command commanding general, invited Tony Horton, a world-class motivational speaker and an author of top-selling books, to a command-wide readiness session at the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base, March 4. The 311th ESC is introducing a new fitness challenge called, “Combat Fitness Challenge.” Physical fitness is one the cornerstones of combat readiness because being physically fit means that a Soldier is always ready for any mission.
Army and Air Force Unite for WAREX 2017
March 29, 2017
Member of the 423rd Military Police Company exit a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from the 621st Contingency Wing following an airfield seizure during Warrior exercise 78-17-01 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst on March 19, 2017. Roughly 60 units from the U.S. Army Reserve, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and Canadian Armed Forces are participating in the 84th Training Command's joint training exercise, WAREX 78-17-01, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. from March 8 until April 1, 2017; the WAREX is a large-scale collective training event designed to assess units' combat capabilities as America's Army Reserve continues to build the most capable, combat-ready, and lethal Federal Reserve force in the history of the Nation. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Sofia/Released.)