Soldiers from the Fredericksburg-based 116th Brigade
Summary
Soldiers from the Fredericksburg-based 116th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 116th Brigade Combat Team take part in the "Warrior Stakes" training event Sept. 20, at Fort Pickett during the unit's two-week annual training period. The training event kicked off with soldiers organized into three-person teams navigating obstacles on the Fort Pickett Air Assault Obstacle Course, followed by stations where they were evaluated on a number of different Army Warrior Tasks. The stations included putting a radio into operation, chemical and biological agent protection, M249 machine gun assembly and disassembly, basic map skills and reacting to enemy contact. The entire course took approximately three hours to complete.