{"id":156445,"date":"2024-05-06T10:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=156445"},"modified":"2024-05-06T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T14:58:54","slug":"armys-best-warrior-is-a-navy-corpsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=156445","title":{"rendered":"Army&#8217;s Best Warrior is a Navy Corpsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-156446 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jack-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jack-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/jack.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Friendly, light-hearted First Class Petty Officer<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Navy hospital corpsman beats Army for Best Warrior title<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Michael O\u2019Connell and his mustache beat seven Army soldiers for the title in the noncommissioned officer field.<\/em><br \/>\nBY NICHOLAS SLAYTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Michael O\u2019Connell might be under the command of the Navy Medicine Operational Training Command but he can also call himself the Best Warrior. O\u2019Connell took first place in the noncommissioned officer category in this year\u2019s U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School Best Warrior Competition, in a big win for the Navy.<\/p>\n<p>The annual competition took place last month at Camp Mackall, North Carolina, April 2024. The only sailor to participate in the competition, O\u2019Connell went up against seven contenders from the Army in his category, beating them all despite the event usually being for the Army.<\/p>\n<p>The mustachioed hospital corpsman is not any medical clinician. He\u2019s a special operations independent duty corpsman and instructor with the Naval Special Operations Medical Institute at the Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/navy-hospital-corpsman-beats-army-for-best-warrior-title\/\">Task and Purpose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rangers lead the way! Right behind HM1 O\u2019Connell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friendly, light-hearted First Class Petty Officer Navy hospital corpsman beats Army for Best Warrior title Hospital &hellip; <a title=\"Army&#8217;s Best Warrior is a Navy Corpsman\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=156445\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army&#8217;s Best Warrior is a Navy Corpsman<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":156446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bravo-zulu","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}