The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 91, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1996 Page: 12 of 46
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LEARNING
THE ROPES
Story and photos by
Sharon Mulligan
III Corps Public Affairs
Achieving goals through team-
work and quality decision making
are the focuses of the Fort Hood
Leader Reaction Course as some
of the more than 9000 Texas Na-
tional Guard soldiers learned dur-
ing their annual training exercise.
"Training on the LRC is great
because it gives junior and senior
NCOs (noncommissioned officers)
a chance to lead in a stressful safe
environment" said Staff Sgt.
Erskin Weir Company C 2nd
Battalion 49th Armored Division.
"It also gives enlisted soldiers who
may one day be NCOs the oppor-
tunity to lead and learn."
The LRC has 16 different sce-
nario driven stations. As teams
move through the stations they
must access the situation develop
a plan of execution and complete
the mission safely and within the
prescribed timelimit.
"All the tools needed to accom-
plish each mission are provided"
Weir said. "The team leader must
then make a decision on how best
to accomplish the mission. The
position rotates among the team
members by station. At one station
a lieutenant might be calling the
shots at the next a private might."
There's no right or wrong way
to go through the course there's
only the safe way Weir said.
'Training at Fort Hood and on
the LRC is very beneficial to the
guard" Weir said. "We deserve the
same training and evaluation stan-
dards as the active-duty. Training
like this is important because we
could be called up at anytime to
conduct real world missions."
Trying to get an explosive container (barrel) across a danger
zone proves to be an effort in balance for one team.
Soldiers from Co E 3-144 Inf learn creating abridge across
pylons by hand takes a steady hand. As part of their annual
training 49th Armd Div soldiers from Co C 2-49
Headquarters Detachment 2-29 and companys and E 3-
144 Inf participated in the training exercises.
Pvt. Billy Smith Co D 3-144 Inf completes his mission of A soldier from 3-144 Inf 49th Armd Div accidently gets a cooling break from the heat
crossing a chain bridge and delivering a supply of he slips off one of the LRC obstacles. This obstacle required teamwork balance ad
ammunication single-handedly after the first two members coordination as soldiers had to scale down a wall cross a chain bridge and deliver!
of his team were "killed." cargo of ammunition.
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Teamwork helps 49th Armd Div soldiers succeed. Clearing a "dangerous" obstacle requires helping hands.
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Herschel, Sgt. La Donna. The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 91, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1996, newspaper, June 27, 1996; Fort Hood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth310122/m1/12/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Casey Memorial Library.