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also had over 100 Families attend our Battalion Family Daon Sept. 19 to show our Families the training our Soldiershave been completing out onthe ranges at Fort Carson.

Looking orward, we havealso scheduled our BattalionOrganization Day on Oct. 22and a Battalion Holiday Ballon Dec. 16.

I encourage all o ourFamilies to attend theseevents as we eel our SoldiersFamilies are part o the teamand a big part o the LonestarFamily. Our philosophy isTe strength o our Soldierscomes rom the strength otheir Families. Again, thebattalion command team truthanks each and every Familmember or their understanding and support.

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Command Sergeant Majors Corner

erving the Soldiers, Civilians and Families of 2nd BCT, 4th Inf. Div.

our Soldiers when possible.Te battalion commander

and I have enorced the stan-dard duty day and TursdaysFamily time when we are ingarrison. Yet there are timeswhen we must execute themission outside o the normal

duty day and as Soldiers, weare obligated to ulll ourduties.

Te Lonestar Family ismaking every eort to com-municate with our Familiesand keep them inormed. Iwas pleased to see over 200Soldiers and Family membersattend our monthly ownHall meeting on Sept. 13 andwelcome all o you back to ournext meeting on Oct. 18. We

tory by Spc. April Yorknd Brigade Combat Team PAO

Maj. Eric Reid, executive ocer o the04th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade

Combat eam, 4th Inantry Division is rais-ng awareness or wounded warriors throughis athletic abilities.

Reid is participating in the Ironman WorldChampionship in Kona, Hawaii Oct. 9 and

opes the attention o this event will help himaise awareness or his cause, he said.

He is raising money through social mediand word o mouth or Operation Rebound, aivision o the Challenged Athletes Founda-ion in San Diego, Cali.

My goal is to raise $10,000 and create auzz or the sacrices our Soldiers make.

Reid has been competing in triathlonsince 2006 and this will be his 7th race.

I enjoy the challenge, he said.According to Reid, the race consists o a

.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride and a 26.2mile marathon run, all together its 140.6miles, and the participants have 17 hours to

complete it.Reid stated that his goal or this race and

or uture Ironman races is to nish in ewerthan 10 hours.

Te best time Ive nished so ar is 9hours and 43 minutes, at the Ironman Coeurd Alene in Idaho, June 2010.

Finding time to train can be challenging,Reid admitted. Between work and amily, mytime is very limited. Ive learned a lot o goodhabits over the years. I go to bed early and I

wake up early. I wake up beore 4 a.m. and getsome cycling in beore P.

Te resilience o wounded Soldiers is a bigmotivation or him, he said.Over the past ve years o competing intriathlons Ive seen a lot o challenged athletesand its very inspiring.

He went on to say that he wants peopleto know that our Soldiers have sacriced somuch and even when they are wounded theystill go on and compete as athletes. Teydont give up.

As an athlete I enjoy the search or the

Lonestar Family, I want to takethis opportunity to tell you howproud I am o all the hard workwe have put in these past ewmonths. We have trained hardat Pinon Canyon, West Point,

Warhorse Rampage I, II, and III,1-10 CALFEX, Engineer breechlanes, Gunnery, and the brigadeWar Fighter Exercise to namea ew. We have supported thebrigade and excelled as a battal-ion. Your hard work is preparingthe brigade, battalion, and every

Lonestar Soldier to ght and winthe nations wars.

I truly want to thank our Fam-ilies or the understanding andsupport they have continuouslyprovided or our Soldiers whilethey are busy training hard. Werecognize there have been longnights and weekend training ourSoldiers have executed that hastaken time away rom their Fam-ilies. We have scheduled trainingholidays and given back time to

204th XO creates buzz for wounded warriors

Command Sgt. Major Yolanda Tate, CSM

2nd Special Troops Battalion

perect day. Te day where everything cotogether and you get the most out o yoursel.

Reid believes Operation Rebound has great motto: From ront line to nish lineTey help wounded warriors get the equiment they need to compete in sports, he s

Operation Rebound is a great causebecause it helps wounded warriors and responders get back a ull ling lie throusport.

Photo rom http://TeamOperationRebound2010.kintera.or

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A mentor o mine oen used the line Tare no stupid questions. His point waillustrate that what oen holds a person bathe inability to ask or help.

Most o us, mysel included, struggle risking our image as a person who has together. We preer to have people see having the right answer and thereby ail t

questions.Tat struggle is with pride and oen i

lead to a ailure in a role o leadership.Leaders must be willing to put their p

aside or the sake o becoming a better leaIn my spiritual belie system I look to

as a primary example who, as God, was wito sacrice his pride and even dignity osake o helping others.

May we all be so humble as leaders topast our own image so that we may becbetter servants o those we lead.

BlessingsChaplain (Capt.) Joel W. Payne204th Brigade Support BattalionRough Riders

Te Warhorse Pride is produced in the interest o theSoldiers o the 2nd Brigade Combat eam, 4th InantryDivision. Te Warhorse Pride is an Army-unded news-letter authorized under provision o AR 360-1.

Contents o Te Warhorse Pride arenot necessarily the views o, nor endorsed by the, U.S.government, Department o Deense, Department o theArmy or the 4th Inantry Division. All editorial contento Te Warhorse Pride is prepared, edited, provided andapproved by the 2nd Brigade Combat eam Public A-

airs Oce.Te Warhorse Pride welcomes articles, commen-

tary, and photos rom readers. Te Warhorse Pridereserves the right to edit submissions selected or thpublication. All issues of the Warhorse Pride can be v iewedonline from your home computer at www.faceboo

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Chaplains CorneStay humble, ask ?

Col. John S. Kolasheski..................2nd BCT Commander

Command Sgt. Maj. Ralph Delosa............2nd BCT CSM

Maj. Kevin Toner......................... ......................2nd BCT PAO

Spc. April York........................................Layout and Design

Sgt. Seth Barham............................................................Editor

Sgt. Ruth Pagan...............................................................Editor

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Lonestar Soldiers volunteer in the community

Delta Company, 2nd Special roops Bat-alions Community Outreach Program wasnitiated to oer transitioning Soldiers thepportunity to support the local communitynd build rapport with the Fort Carson and

Colorado Springs community.A volunteer event with Goodwill was sched-

led on Sept. 10 to aord the employees atGoodwill, located at South Circle, some extra

elp during their busiest hours o the week.Te event began at 9 a.m. with the opening

the venue to the general public and endedt noon aer the massive infux o donations

were processed. Soldiers helped the Goodwillmployees in a variety o ways: sorting vari-us items and prepping their movement tohe foor or display, organizing and cleaning

items as they were unloaded rom a donatorsvehicle, and organizing and cleaning the itemson the foor.

Overall, six Soldiers rom Delta Companyparticipated in the volunteer event and twoSoldiers rom the 4th Special roops Battalion

volunteered as well.Teir Community Outreach Program has

been partnering Soldiers with local venuesthroughout the Colorado Springs area in aneort to urther develop the character o theoutgoing Soldiers.

Some o the areas/programs where DeltaCompany will be volunteering to assist in thecommunity are: the adopt-a-schools programwith Fountain-Fort Carson High School,Goodwill, the Humane Society, VA Hospital,Habitat or Humanity, local Soup Kitchens,and on-post organizations such as ACS, USO,

tory and photo by Capt. Michael Grantnd Special Troops Battalion

and the American Red Cross.Overall there are nine dierent Goodw

locations in the Fort Carson and ColoradoSprings community. Te mission o theGoodwill is to help people who are lookinor work or better jobs so that they can bet

provide or their Families.

Sgt. Dawdy and a Soldier rom 4STB hang incoming clothes o

Racks. Later they will be sorted by category o clothing in o

nalize them or the show ro om oor.

2nd STB trains with 1-2 Aviationtory and photo by Capt. Samuel Nuxollnd Special Troops Battalion

Te Warhorse Brigades only Shadow UASlatoon, Mongoose, conducted Air to Air

ntegration training with 1st Battalion, 2ndAviation Regiment rom Sept. 9-16.

As combat operations in Iraq and Aghani-tan continue, seamless integration o combatnits on the ground and in the air is exceed-

ngly critical. Tis includes a new concept,

Manned-Unmanned eaming (MUM-)which is being eld tested across the Army.

Te Mongoose Platoon had a rare opportu-ity with 1-2 AVN to conduct some MUM-

raining.Its exciting to be on the leading edge

the Army, said Spc. Salvador Garduno.Most o the guys I went to AI with haventone anything like this beore.

MUM- occurs when manned aviationlatorms like Apaches or Kiowa Warriors

work hand-in-hand with unmanned aviationlatorms like the Shadow or Hunter UAS.

Te unarmed UAS will go rst to conducteconnaissance while the helicopters comeehind and utilize their weapon systems to

engage and destroy the enemy.Some helicopters have even been equipped

to take control o the Shadow temporarilywhile they conduct the engagement. Duringthis eld training, Warhorse UAS Soldiersidentied targets on Fort Carson, then passedthem o to Apaches rom 1-2 AVN. TeApaches swept in and engaged these targetswith their 30mm machine gun.

Tis was a great training event, said Sgt.

1st Class Charles rayer. We spend a lot otime supporting ground Soldiers but rarely dowe get to spot or another aviation unit. I hada lot o un.

Sgt. Jason Bowman, Spc. Salvador Garduno, Sgt. Jacob Schmitt

prepare to catapult the Shadow of its launcher at the Camp Red

Devil Airstrip.