 The rodeo has been a 40-year tradition in the para-rescue community. It used to be search and rescue exercises that turned into what we now know as the rodeo. Training through competition for the week to identify the best of the best of our warriors. It's open to the total force, it just makes for a great event. The goal of this rodeo is to get bigger and better every year. Currently the rodeo is open to combat rescue officers and para-rescumen at any level who want to come out and compete. There are two man teams. Each team needs to have at least one para-rescumen through a series of competition, through training. So all the guys went head-to-head in a weapons competition shooting their primary and secondary weapons systems. They went through a precision para-shooting competition. After that we got into the fitness portion, what we like to call our monster mash. We blended in some medicine there. We did some high angle rope rescue training. How this rodeo ties into the bigger picture is really it reinforces the heritage, the legacy that helps further develop that culture.