Wolcott’s Jason Burgess Helps Clarkson Army ROTC
Tuesday, December 5 2006
Clarkson University’s Golden Knight Battalion Ranger Challenge Team finished fourth in the 1st Brigade competition held earlier this month at Fort Devens, Mass. Wolcott’s Jason Burgess is in the back row, third from left.
FORT DEVENS, Mass. - Clarkson University’s Golden Knight Battalion Ranger Challenge Team finished ahead of teams from 16 other colleges and universities at the 2006 1st Brigade competition held in November at the fort.
Jason Burgess, a member of the team, is from Port Bay Road, Wolcott. He is a sophomore chemical engineering major at Clarkson, in Potsdam.
The 12-person team, made up of students from Clarkson and SUNY Potsdam, are all enrolled in the Army ROTC program at Clarkson University.
“The Ranger Challenge team trained very hard and was rewarded with a very strong finish. I am very proud of all the cadets that participated in Ranger Challenge,” remarked Lieutenant Colonel John Hinrichs, Golden Knight Battalion Commander. This is the second year in a row the team finished in fourth place at the annual competition. The Golden Knight Battalion won the competition in 2000.
The Golden Knights Battalion competed in 10 events, including rifle marksmanship, an obstacle course, orienteering, physical fitness test, land navigation written test, 10 kilometer ruck march, and a hand grenade assault course featuring paintball snipers. The battalion finished first overall on the hand grenade assault course.
This year’s team started training when school began, and featured 21 cadets competing for 12 slots. Because of the strong turnout and number of underclassmen participating, the battalion expects to improve on their performance next year.
Among the 20 teams competing in this year’s Ranger Challenge were cadets from Cornell University, the University of Massachusetts, Northeastern University, Rochester Institute of Technology and Syracuse University. Clarkson was able to finish ahead of such perennial powerhouses as Norwich, Syracuse University, and the University of New Hampshire.
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