 My name is Patrick McCabe, I'm a private first class of the 3161 HHC. I wanted to try something that put me out of my comfort zone, something that was going to challenge me physically and mentally, well beyond anything I've ever been challenged by before in my entire life. Do you want to point it at the table? Come on, the right outside! We got to get the gun up so we can shoot him, let's go! Get low, get low! Move to your right, safety on! The stress shoot was a lot of fun. It wasn't as stressful as one may think, but it was most certainly thought-provoking. Let's put it that way. You got this, let's go, let's go, let's go! I'm looking for a motivation for myself, daily motivation. I want to motivate myself to work out every day, focus on my solar skills, ACFT shooting. All the events actually we have in the best work competition I want to put into practice like daily. So that's my main reason. I know soldiers from my unit, they don't really want to join or they're not motivated to join. So I also want to set up example, you know, everyone can join this and you can focus on your solar skills daily and come here to compete with other soldiers have fun. Now I'm going to do the hard part. You can, you can, you can. You guys, feel free to open a window. We're, we're out there and doing the thing today. It's warming here, it's not going to lie. We're competition. A lot of the NCOs in my company, Claymore Company, one of the 161, had recommended me and a couple of the other friends I hang out with at drill, volunteer for it. So together me and a couple of my friends are Kenny Barnes, specialist Michael Clough, specialist Ethan Buster and PFC James Swanson. All got together. We talked about how it could be cool to compete together and it is the individual competition, but doing that competition with some of your best friends makes it a lot less stressful and a lot easier. So we all discussed competing. A lot of NCOs had recommended that I looked up to and I chose to volunteer. Our training NCO, Sergeant LaRue, helped us fill out our packets. And then the unit decided to send us. We found out and once we did that, we all just combined all of our efforts and tried to make sure that everyone would be successful. So the dead reckoning really actually helped as far as everything went with not having to rely on that compass alone. It wasn't a self-correcting course either, so I did have a couple moments where I was wondering if I was in fact at the right point. I actually did have one point where I must have walked around it for 20 minutes until I found it just because it was so short. So I was challenged by it, but I really did enjoy it. All the events were fantastic, ran by some of the best cadre around as far as I can tell. I mean, I'm pretty fresh to this. So going through each event, it was pretty phenomenal seeing how each stacked up. And the Rockers, of course, I think this is the most fun event for me. I like rocking in general, so. I definitely felt going with the group of guys I did. Every single one of them was helping me, letting me know after every event. Hey, I still have all my SI. Going with a group of friends and a lot of brothers that I really trust and hope to go into combat with someday, it made all the difference. If anyone was hurt, you know, the other people are helping them, all that. 1306. Last name? I am Second Lieutenant Peters, and I am with Alpha Battery 2146. I'd have to say it was a great success. It sounds like the competitors had a lot of fun. That was the biggest takeaway I wanted to see is that they enjoyed their time, and also we were able to identify who our best warrior was coming into Regionals. I'm really proud of myself, that I pushed myself far enough that I was capable of winning such a great competition with really amazing competitors from all over the state. I was really happy to participate with them. Did not really feel real at first at all. I've been working like crazy since I got in my unit. My unit's been recognizing that and encouraging it. The guys I went with, I felt were my biggest support in my base competition, so I was just trying to do my best for every single event, and it never actually occurred to me that I had a chance of winning it. Maybe I just counted myself out a little bit, but the guys I were around, and my peers in my friend group are just so far up there as well, but now my mind's going straight to Regionals. I'm super excited to represent Claymore Company and just Washington State in general for the regional competitions. I'm excited for Regionals. We've got a lot of planning to do, a little bit of tweaking we've got to take care of, but it's going to be good.