CAMP DODGE, Iowa - Cadets from the University of North Dakota race to the finish line moments before the three and a half hour deadline for the 2nd Lt. Richard B. Brian Gienau Land Navigation Course at Camp Dodge, Iowa, March 17 during the first 3rd ROTC Brigade Gaspers-Cahill Ranger Challenge. The North Dakota team is currently in lead.
The cadets had three and a half hours to find up to 40 points worth of the 60 markers on the land navigation course. Points were worth 5 to 25 points depending on the distance from the starting point.
The course was named for Gienau, an alumnus of the University of Northern Iowa Army ROTC Program, was killed in action on February 27, 2005 in Ramadi, Iraq.
The challenge was
named for two of the brigade’s 11 alumni who died in combat, Nebraska
graduates, 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers and Capt. Joel E. Cahill.
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