'The competition is pretty tough this year, and it looks like the winning football team came.'

'It is one Army, and that's what is so great about this,' said Aubain, whose garrison has hosted the competition for the last five years. We got to go out there and do the mission.' Yeah, there are differences between Guard and active duty but when it all comes down to it, it's all the same job. 'We are deployed all the same way together we are doing the same fight. 'It is showing, I think, about what the Guard has been doing for the last few years,' said Dornbusch about the Guard competing here. 'It shows that they are 26 of 500,000 Soldiers in this Army who met the standard to get to this far.'

Anthony Aubain, command sergeant major of the Combined Arms Support Command here. 'They get to wear the Best Warrior patch while they are here during the week,' said Sgt. They also wore a special patch on their right shoulders. They wore the equipment throughout the competition. The Soldiers had to don the Army's latest personal protective equipment by the standards, including ballistic glasses, flak-vests and elbow and knee pads.

Nowak and Dornbusch were in the field dressed in the Army's latest combat helmet and inceptor body armor system to meet the media. For that, Nowak and Dornbusch will always be the first, and they set a bar for Guard members who follow. It was the first time that the Army National Guard and Army Reserve had competed with the active duty Army as separate entities. The Army's top NCOs and Soldiers of the year competed Oct. 3 to await the final deciding events for the Army's best warrior. Nowak, Army National Guard Soldier of the Year, and Dornbusch, the Army Guard's NCO of the Year, had joined 24 other Soldiers from 12 major Army commands resting in the afternoon shade Oct. Erik Nowak both made the same sportsman's comment about their final days of competitive soldiering: it was less about winning or losing and more about the journey and the experience for the National Guard. Army's 2007 Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier of the Year event, Staff Sgt. Out in a field here behind an operations center for the U.S.

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