CAMP DODGE, Iowa - Cadets from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities found a marker worth 5 points during 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 cadets had three and a half hours to find up to 40 points worth of the 60 markers on the land navigation course. Point 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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| Cadets from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities found a marker worth 5 points only moments before the end of the three and a half hour 2nd Lt. Richard B. Brian Gienau Land Navigation challenge at Camp Dodge, Iowa, March 17 during the first 3rd ROTC Brigade Gaspers-Cahill Ranger Challenge. |
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