 Army Medical Center. Relevant and realistic competition designed to select the best leaders in the region. The week began with us in battle drill as well as a stress shoot at the newest range on Fortress. On the last second lieutenant, Daniel Parker. Good morning, my name's Captain Eric Heitman. I am the officer in charge for the 2022 Regional Health Command Central best leader competition. This is a competition that feeds into the overall headquarters department of Army best leader competition. Or this year they're gonna call it the best squad competition. So this is our one star division level competition. We had multiple day competition that consisted of an administrative day which was the ACFT, a combat water survival test, obstacle course, combatives, and a written and oral test. Day two consists 15 mile foot march, day and night land navigation. Our following day consisted Army warrior task in battle drill lane and a stress shoot. The final day of the competition consisted of a mystery event and an oral board. I'm specialist Chris Offie, C-O-N-N-E-R-C-R-I-S-A-F-I. I'm with Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson. This whole competition altogether was super hard but overall had a lot of good team bonding with my team. The swim for me was probably the hardest. Never really done anything like that before. But you kinda just push through, try your best, you know? That's all you can ask for. Some people are really good at swimming and some people aren't very good at rucking but we all just kinda would pick each other up and keep going. It was pretty tough. I don't know if it would be the toughest week of my life but it's up there. We all kinda persevered together, embraced the suck and it felt great to get it all over with. Felt good to win. All right, I'm surface class McCool. I'm from San Antonio. I won the senior N-C-O category for the best leader competition for R-H-C Central and I work at Fort Sill Medec. I mean the week was pretty tough. We started right off the bat first day. We had multiple events. It was physically demanding. Very little sleep and then it just never stopped. Today is probably the first day we actually got the rest and there was a lot of good training. I definitely learned a lot and I definitely tested my body like I haven't tested it in a while. We trained about three to four weeks before the competition so I didn't, honestly didn't think I was gonna win but I knew that I was gonna try my best and hopefully I was gonna do well. My name is First Lieutenant Kara Adams and I am the 2022 Regional Health Command Central the best leader officer winner. I currently serve as the outpatient chief of the nutrition clinic at Gilwalk. This week was a series of very rigorous events that was paired with sleep deprivation, stress, sand, wind but we were put to the test both mentally and physically running through our army warrior tasks, rucking, doing the ACFT, really a variety of events. Being in the mountains at high altitude, I'm not used to that, right? So I've never really trained in a high altitude environment and day one and day two I felt that in my lungs, definitely and just being almost in a desert setting, right? With sand, heat, that was definitely a part of it so it made it all a little bit more stressful and rigorous. We had three 65 Charlie dietitians out here competing with the officer group, which is a really good representation I think of the medical specialist corps in general and dietitians are now part of this whole holistic health and fitness initiative that the army's embracing and I think fueling and treating your body right is a big part of winning on the battlefield so.