 succeed and we will achieve the high goal of our joining training and it was obvious from day one when we got with them that the Jordanian forces we were partnered with they've absolutely trained they were just drilling targets on the unknown distance just like the Marines were. First Sergeant Pierce, first name Conrad, currently serving as the first sergeant for golf company second battalion 24th Marines out of Madison, Wisconsin. So the overview for Intrepid Maven came out that hey we're gonna go do some partner training with Jordanian forces basically partnered together in order to build that interoperability to standard of what we do and what they do as infantry building off of each other's experiences. It was very obvious that they were proficient in what they were doing and they had great discipline and communication skills between their team leads and their squad leaders and what we gained out of this was huge. We really gained a lot of experience. It was great working with them I mean some of the Jordanian forces and they were sitting around the campfire they built a little campfire out there and they invited us in we were sitting down with them just talking we were talking about family and kids and just life stuff right you know periods of down time that's exactly what we do we sit around and we talk about life back home and wives and kids and goals and dreams and things. To be welcomed into that kind of circle that quickly was refreshing and again with the Marines it was obvious that the integration piece was was a non-issue there was no barriers there at all. It's great it's great opportunity great exercise. There's a lot that we gained out of this. One the experience just as a whole right but to be able to do it the way that we did it and then to actually get to come overseas very different culture very different climate being able to do Marine Corps infantry basic skills and build from the 1,000 level up to the 4,000 and beyond with Guad elements kind of teaching that to the JAP of what we're doing and why we're doing it and us seeing it and them telling us their why behind it and then kind of intermixing that now and now we have a common understanding of exactly why we're doing things the way we're doing it in order to make sure that there's that common ground and understanding we know how each other operate so that we can do further missions with each other. Good morning my name is 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 going to 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 written 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 a oral board. I'm specialist Chrisofi 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 all together 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 kind of just push through try your best you know that's all you can ask for. Some people are really good at swimming some people aren't very good at rucking but we all just kind of 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 kind of persevere together embrace the suck and it felt great to get it all over with felt good to win. Alright I'm surface class McCool I'm from San Antonio I won the senior NCO category for the best leader competition for RAC 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's 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 I was 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 we were put to the test both mentally and physically running through our army warrior tasks rocking doing the ACFT really a variety of events being 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 more 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.