{"id":104162,"date":"2019-07-19T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104162"},"modified":"2019-07-19T11:05:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:05:30","slug":"new-york-army-national-guard-soldiers-competing-in-national-best-warrior-competition-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104162","title":{"rendered":"CORRECTED: New York Army National Guard soldiers competing in national Best Warrior Competition in Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Soldiers from Greenwood Lake and New York City\nrepresent northeast in national Army National Guard competition<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Corporal Joseph Ryan competes in the northeast Best Warrior Competition in April, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this press release mistakenly indicated that Corporal Joseph Ryan was a New York City resident. He is from Yonkers. The New York National Guard regrets the error.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two New York Army National Guard Soldiers are at Camp Gruber, Ok., this week participating in the Army National Guard’s nationwide Best Warrior Competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sgt. 1st Class Martin Cozens, a resident of Greenwood Lake assigned to Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry Regiment; and Cpl. Joseph Ryan, a Yonkers resident and a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, are among 14 Soldiers competing to be the best in the 330,000-member Army National Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winners of the event will compete against\nthe top Soldiers from the Active Army and Army Reserve to be the overall Best\nWarriors in the Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event began Monday, July 13, and ends July\n20, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sgt. 1st Class Martin Cozens competing in the northeast Best Warrior Competition in April, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cozens is competing against other non-commissioned\nofficers, while Ryan is competing in the junior enlisted soldier category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two men beat out competitors from around\nthe northeast during an April competition in New Hampshire to make it to the\nOklahoma competition. This was the second year in a row that New York Army\nNational Guard soldiers beat other competitors to go onto the national level\ncompetition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Best Warrior competition tests soldiers\u2019\nmarksmanship, physical fitness, military skills and military knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soldiers from Greenwood Lake and New York City represent northeast in national Army National Guard competition CORRECTION: An earlier version of this press release mistakenly indicated that Corporal Joseph Ryan was a New York City resident. He is from Yonkers. The New York National Guard regrets the error. Two New York Army National Guard Soldiers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,21571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story","category-veterans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-r62","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5344445.jpg?fit=2940%2C3576&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}