A total of 564 competitors, including 36 companies of the U.S. Corps of Cadets and the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School, entered into the 49th annual Sandhurst Military Skills Competition April 10-11. Each team consisted of nine participants, including at least one female per team.
In one scenario, while at the grenade range, cadets were to use 18 grenades and had two minutes to take out the enemy and it was up to the leader to decide how that would be done. “Cadet leaders received the same orders they would as a lieutenant,” Coffey said. There are 22 tasks that must be completed in the competition including marksmanship, navigation, carrying an injured Soldier up the ski slope, and mental agility such as developing the best strategy for managing artillery support while under an enemy barrage.
Sixteen cadet companies and USMAPS received the bronze standard patch; seven received the silver standard patch as did Michigan State University and John Hopkins University. USNA, Texas A&M, cadet companies G-2, H-3 and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Red received the Gold Standard patch. Full Story»
Photo courtesy of Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Bunkley/USMA PAO