Four Soldiers and one Veteran from Fort Campbell’s Warrior Transition Battalion are set to compete in the Army Trials at Fort Bliss, Texas beginning Wednesday.
The team will compete through Saturday, March 16, to earn a spot on Team Army for the 2019 Department of Defense (DOD) Warrior Games later this year.
According to a release from the Fort Campbell Public Affairs Office, the DOD Warrior Games is an adaptive sports competition for wounded, ill and injured service members and Veterans.
They add both the Army Trials and Warrior Games provide an adaptive reconditioning
outreach opportunity for the Soldiers to get involved in, outside of their routine adaptive reconditioning workouts while assigned to a WTB. The games highlight the resiliency and warrior spirit of service members and veterans despite their wounds, injuries, and illness.
Competitors from the Fort Campbell WTB include Soldier, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Fontenot (competing in adaptive powerlifting, rowing, seated shot put and discus, and wheelchair racing), Sgt. 1st Class Ian Crawley (cycling, rowing, wheelchair tennis, wheelchair basketball, and field events at the trials), Master Sgt. Cinnamon Wright (competing in archery, shooting, cycling, and rowing), Staff Sgt. Kenneth Arnold (cycling, rowing, shooting, archery), and Veteran Jonathan Weasner (wheelchair racing, hand-cycle, seated field-discus and shotput, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis, and shooting).
