Photo By Gen. Rajagau Tuan Lante | Sergeant 1st Class Ramon A. Quinones, a medical laboratory technician with the 5501st...... read more read more
HELENA, Mont. - Sergeant 1st Class Ramon A. Quinones, a medical laboratory technician with the 5501st U.S. Army Hospital in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, is competing in the Army Reserve Medical Command’s prestigious "Best Warrior Competition” in Helena, Mont., Feb. 24–27, 2013.
Quinones, 40, a San Antonio native, is representing Central Medical Area Readiness Support Group from Fort Sheridan, Ill. He is one of more than ten soldiers of approximately 9,500-strong AR-MEDCOM Warriors to be selected to compete for this honor.
Currently, he works as a medical technologist in his local community. Quinones earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from the University of Texas in San Antonio in 2001.
In 2010, he deployed to Afghanistan where he received the International Security Assistance Force medal for his unit’s support in NATO operations in Afghanistan.
The Best Warrior Competition was developed by retired Sgt. Maj. of the Army Jack Tilley in 2002, testing soldier’s physical endurance, military knowledge, and mental perseverance. The competition is an opportunity for warrior’s to highlight their military skills in a competitive environment.
The grueling four day event competition taxes each soldier mentally and physically. It includes a timed written exam, physical fitness test, and a number of mentally and physically challenging exercises including day land navigation, urban orienteering courses, road march, weapons qualification on rifles and pistols, hand-to-hand combative tournament, tactical combat causally care, and mystery events
Quinones began the competition at unit level, rising to command level and continuing on to higher command intended to select the noncommissioned officer and junior enlisted Soldier of the Year for ARMEDCOM. The winner advances to train and prepare through U. S. Army Reserve Command, and upon winning will go on to represent the Army Reserve Command to the Army wide ‘Best Warrior’ Competition to be held later in the year.
The Army Reserve Medical Command has been represented at the top Army event in 2009 by Staff Sgt. Aaron Butler, a medical logistics NCO from Three Forks, Mont., at the Department of the Army level competition.
| Date Taken: | 02.24.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 02.25.2014 09:27 |
| Story ID: | 121099 |
| Location: | HELENA, MONTANA, US |
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