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First-day trainees with Fort Sill’s 1-31st FA Battalion run across the track with their drill sergeant demonstrating the First 100 Yards training. The training focuses on teamwork as trainees work together from the start to accomplish objectives like racing as part of the team to tag the next team and stay together. Some step out of their shell and become a self-appointed leader, while others are physically challenged in ways unfamiliar to them. The additional value is that the drill sergeants are involved in the physical movements which enables the trainees to understand that they are more than just drill sergeants, they are also Soldiers. This comes in handy when drill sergeants are doing more duties during the cycle such as removing their DS hats and having discussions about the Army with trainees.
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Trainees with 1-31st FA Battalion race across the track at Fort Sill’s Hellcat Field with kettle bells on their first day of training. They learn about teamwork with the First 100 Yards training which focuses on larger collective games rather than breaking the individual down and then building him/her back up with the Army values. Trainees do a series of teambuilding events such as moving equipment from one end of the track together as a team. Then they perform the physical events of the Army Combat Fitness Test as a team, doing such movements as dragging a sled and carrying equipment from one location to another.
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First-day trainees with Fort Sill’s 1-31st FA Battalion learn what being a member of the time-honored Army team means as they team up with their battle buddy to move weights across the field. Some of the trainees aren’t citizens of the United States yet but they are eligible to become citizens after one day of federal service. According to staff members of 1-31st FA, they will probably make eight to 15 new U.S. citizens in the next nine weeks. Fort Sill sees a good representation of countries in basic training including Africa, Mongolia, China, South Korea, the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, the Middle East and Australia.
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Trainees who are in the first day of basic training with Fort Sill’s 1-31st FA Battalion learn the importance of teamwork through a series of teambuilding events such as moving equipment across the track on Hellcat Field. The trainees are learning you can be the best at everything as an individual but if you’re missing 40 people behind you, you’re not really a team player. Your job is to bring everybody with you.
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Drill Sergeants keep a close eye on first-day trainees with 1st Battalion, 31st Field Artillery, to ensure they understand the importance of working together to achieve their task of bringing a dummy on a gurney across with the track without dropping the gurney. Most of the BCT trainees who come through Fort Sill are medical support. Medics work in hospitals, intelligence analysts, linguists and communications. Since the majority are not combat training, the cadre focuses a little less on the physical side of training. According to staff members, the biggest thing they need to teach the trainees is they need to build a team.
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First-day Basic Combat Training trainees from 1-31st FA try to pick up the gurney together and find it isn’t as easy as it looks as one trainee doesn’t lift and stand at the same time and almost tips the dummy off the gurney. The training is part of the First 100 Yards training which focuses on teamwork to accomplish the mission. The First 100 was the transition from the shark attack as Training and Doctrine Command identified that the Army needs to transition toward a more teamwork-based focus, rather than the original mentality of breaking them down to build them back up.
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FORT SILL, Okla. (May 30, 2023) — Take a look inside Day 1 of Basic Combat Training with the 434th Field Artillery Brigade at Fort Sill.
First day trainees with the 1st Battalion, 31st Field Artillery, 434th Brigade, got a lesson in teamwork with the First 100 Yards.
“The First 100 was the transition from the shark attack as we identified that the Army needed to transition toward a more teamwork-based focus, rather than the original mentality of breaking them down to build them back up,” said Capt. Alexander Crosby, Battalion S3, 1-31st FA Battalion.
“The First 100 immediately gets after this teamwork as trainees have to work together from the start to accomplish objectives like moving equipment from one location to the other,” he said. “Some step out of their shell and become a self-appointed leader, while others are physically challenged in ways unfamiliar to them.”
Trainees do a series of teambuilding events such as moving equipment from one end of the track together as a team. Then they perform the physical events of the Army Combat Fitness Test as a team, doing such movements as dragging a sled and carrying equipment.
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