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PHOTOS: Link in Team’s Chain

By KEITH ROGERS LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
February 13, 2014 - 11:37 pm
 
2nd Lt. Amber Sikora with the 99th Contraction Squadron passes a sandbag Thursday during Warrior Challenge at Nellis Air Force Base. Twenty-one teams competed in the obstacle course. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
SSgt Scott Corey, left, and Michael Parsall with Nellis Fire Department throw sand bags while they competed in the Warrior Challenge at Nellis Air Force Base on Thursday. A total of 21 teams competed in the obstacle course. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Lt Col Peter Feng,left, high fives Col Aaron Young after they competed in the Warrior Challenge at Nellis Air Force Base on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. A total of 21 teams competed the obstacle course. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Teams of airmen from the engineers’ unit at Nellis Air Force Base, the 820th Red Horse Squadron, competed Thursday in the Warrior Challenge, a series of events including a sand-bag lift, tire swap and loader pull to test their physical, mental and social skills.

The challenge is a part of the Life of a Warrior Initiative, aimed at building a culture of airmen who invest positively in themselves instead of making negative lifestyle choices that destroy their minds and bodies.

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