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Sgt. Edmond Johnson (right) with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, identifies terrain features commonly found on military maps as Sgt. Maj. Phillip Paquette, Jr. and Command Sgt. Maj. Steve R. Chandler (center left), senior enlisted leader, 2IBCT, 4th Inf. Div. observes during the This is My Squad competition March 10 at Fort Carson, Colorado. Squads with 2IBCT were tested on their ability to work together as a team to accomplish the tasks at hand to highlight the “This is My Squad” initiative launched by Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gabrielle Weaver)
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Pvt. Jacob Babineau with Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, awaits further instruction after donning his M50 gas mask during a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear test at the This is My Squad competition March 10 at Fort Carson, Colorado. Squads with 2IBCT were tested on their ability to work together as a team to accomplish the tasks at hand to highlight the “This is My Squad” initiative launched by Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gabrielle Weaver)
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Soldiers with 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, walk to their final event during the This is My Squad competition March 10 at Fort Carson, Colorado. Squads who participated in the competition walked approximately six miles during the event to get to each station as part of the competition. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gabrielle Weaver)
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Command Sgt. Maj. Steve R. Chandler, senior enlisted leader of 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, addresses Soldiers with 2IBCT, 4th Inf. Div. during the This is My Squad Competition March 10 at Fort Carson, Colorado. The competition was inspired by Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston’s “This is My Squad” initiative which emphasizes a squad’s cohesion to build an overall stronger organization. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gabrielle Weaver)
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Command Sgt. Maj. Steve R. Chandler (left), senior enlisted leader of 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, presents Sgt. Tanner Dunning with Alpha Company, 52nd Brigade Engineer Support Battalion, 2IBCT, 4th Inf. Div. with a brigade challenge coin for his team’s victory in the This is My Squad Competition March 10 at Fort Carson, Colorado. The competition was inspired by Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston’s “This is My Squad” initiative which emphasizes a squad’s cohesion to build an overall stronger organization. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gabrielle Weaver)
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Spc. Shawn Sullivan, Jr. (left) with Alpha Company, 52nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, assists in assembling an M249 machine gun during the This is My Squad competition March 10 at Fort Carson, Colorado. Squads with 2IBCT were tested on their ability to work together as a team to accomplish the tasks at hand to highlight the “This is My Squad” initiative launched by Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gabrielle Weaver)
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FORT CARSON, Colorado – Soldiers with 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, competed in the brigade’s “This is My Squad” Competition, an all-day event inspired by Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael A. Grinston’s “This is My Squad” initiative March 10 at Fort Carson, Colorado.
This is the first time the brigade held the event which was hosted by 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.
“The brigade initiated the (competition) in support of Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael A. Grinston’s initiative to get after cohesive teams and ownership of a leader’s elements,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Steve R. Chandler, senior enlisted leader of 2IBCT. “In this case it was squads; we had 9 Soldier squads competing in a multitude of events.”
“Each battalion provided a squad to see who is the best in the brigade” said Sgt. 1st Class Justin McBride, operations assistant noncommissioned officer with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Bn., 41st Inf. Reg., 2IBCT, 4th Inf. Div. “We created events based on skill level one tasks and a mystery event to determine the winner.”
The squads worked together to complete the tasks they were given to win a trophy for their battalion all while navigating approximately six miles, on foot, with their assigned weapons, plated vests and combat helmets.
“We are getting at the lethality, “Ivy 7” for the division and unit readiness for the competition,” Chandler said.
All tasks culminated to the final mystery event: a test of basic rifleman marksmanship. Squads were to fire their weapons at the range and collectively determine which of them could achieve the most hits.
After a long day, a winner was finally determined.
“The first-place winner was the 52nd Brigade Engineer Battalion,” Chandler said. “They were super pumped and excited from the very beginning and maintained that high morale throughout the event.”
The competition is expected to be held quarterly and hosted by the winning battalion.
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