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city council noticed the landscape
work A&M has done to improve
its appearance and entrances to
the University, and the council
wanted to be a part of it.
"Our purpose is to compliment
what's been done with the Univer
sity and set the tone for visitors,"
—hesaid.
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ad som fft streetscape proposal is widening
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in either direction, plus a continu
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planning system.
Ash said, however, the plans
have not been finalized.
"This is just a conceptual mas
ter plan," he said. "The only pro
ject in the process of being funded
right now is the street widening."
Ash said the city may not be
able to achieve all these goals and
proposals in a first phase project.
"It depends on the funding," he
said. "It may be phased in over
the next few years."
state school
AUSTIN (AP) - Gov. Ann
Richards on Thursday approved
closing the Travis State School for
the mentally retarded but said the
Mexia State School should be
spared.
Instead, Richards said she
would recommend that the Legis
lature approve converting the Fort
Worth State School to a drug reha
bilitation center for prison in
mates.
Richards said she believed her
decision would meet the require
ment for settling a long-running
federal lawsuit against Texas' sys
tem of caring for the mentally re
tarded.
Closing two of the 13 state
schools for the mentally retarded
was called for in the settlement
agreement.
A special task force had recom
mended closing Mexia and the
Travis school, which is one of two
located in Austin.
Richards noted that Travis
State School also has been identi
fied by state prison officials as a
potential drug treatment facility.
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after the rope bridge), we were
ready to go again."
The payoff was A&M's second
consecutive U.S. Army Third Re
gion Ranger Challenge Champi
onship and its third in the six-year
existence of the competition.
• ••••••
Young squad utilizes training, unity
to win second straight championship
After the early competition, the
team is trimmed to 11, with nine
team members and two alternates.
The team then starts preparing
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Ranger Challenge is a group
within the Army ROTC which ba
sically trains year round. The
group is separate from all other
groups within the Corps of
Cadets. About 20-25 cadets begin
trying out for the team one week
into the fall semester. Jones said it
takes a special type of individual
to make the team.
"Anyone can make the team,
but basically it's all heart," he
said. "It's more than their PT
(Physical Training) score. We've
taken some who barely have made
minimum, and they made Ranger
Challenge. I only scored a 250
when I came out (300 is perfect
score). We look for people who
really are motivated and dedicat
ed, that's the main quality you're
going to need for Ranger Chal
lenge." *
After an initial cut, the Aggie
Brigade takes two teams to a
matchup with five or six other
squads, which usually is held at
Sam Houston State University.
This gives everyone some compe
tition experience, and allows the
team coaches and team leaders an
opportunity to evaluate personnel
in a game situation.
This year's team included four
juniors: Taylor from Dallas, Jones
from Texarkana, John Donaldson
from Boling and Randy Sanders
from Carmine. Sophomore mem
bers are Will Compton of Harker
Heights, John Donley of Grand
Prairie, Blake Hamm of Dallas,
Scott Stewart of Stafford and Sean
Simms of Taipei, Taiwan. The two
alternates are Will Haraway of
Harlington and Michael Kleppe of
Allen.
The team coaches are Sgt. Maj.
Thomas Epting, Master Sgt. Chris
Michaelson and Sgt. Cedric Busby.
Epting is considered the "head
coach," but he said "he does no
more than the other two coaches."
Ed Liles, who also made the
trip to Kansas, fancies himself
only as a supporter, but Jones said
his involvement goes beyond that.
"Ed is the official academic tu
tor for Ranger Challenge," Jones
said. "Without him many of us
would not be around very long."
Rick Taylor, Aggie Brigade
team leader and Commander
of Troops for the Third Region.
for the November Apache Brigade
Shoot-Out in Fort Hood, from
which the top two teams travel to
regional competition in March.
This w r as the last year that the re
gional championship was held in
Fort Riley, as the four regions are
being condensed into two. Next
year the regionals move to Fort
Lewis, Wash.
A&M won the first competition
in 1987, finished second in 1988,
third in 1989 and second in 1990
before winning the last two years.
The Aggies are the only school to
place every year.
After the one-rope bridge, the
teams compete in the Army Physi
cal Fitness Test, which requires
situps, push-ups and a two-mile
run; an M-16 rifle marksmanship
test which, requires firing at a
scaled silhouette target 25 meters
away; weapons assembly, which
tests cadets on their ability to
properly and quickly assemble an
M-16 rifle and an M-60 machine
gun.
The last four events include an
orienteering test, which requires
teams to find as many "control
points" as possible in 90 minutes
over a 6-kilometer square orien
teering course; a grenade assault
course that requires hitting six tar
gets with practice hand grenades
while negotiating an obstacle
course; a recon patrol segment,
which tests the cadets' teamwork
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and stamina during a 12-hour
night patrol and is followed by the
10-K march. The cadets get about
an hour-and-a-half of sleep be
tween the night patrol and the
march.
The strength of the team rests
in its intense training program or
FT. The PT program is developed
each year by the team leader after
consultation with Michaelson and
the rest of the team.
Jones, who likely will be next
year's team leader, said the pro
gram developed by Taylor and
Michaelson was the best for the
team and they would continue to
use it.
The Brigade trains four days a
week in what Epting refers to as
"early in the morning" and five
days in the afternoon. Morning
practices last an hour-and-a-half,
while afternoon practices usually
take two hours.
The team also takes every other
weekend to work on orienteering
or patrolling. However, as the re
gional competition neared, the
team worked every weekend.
Participating in Ranger Chal
lenge takes up most of the cadets'
extra time, including time away
from regular Corps formations.
The Brigade usually misses out on
PT with their units in the morning
and on formations because they
still are working on Ranger Chal
lenge.
There's speculation among
some of the Corps members that
the only reason cadets participate
in the Brigade is to get out of for
mation. Jones and other members
quickly mention that Brigade
workouts are not an easy way out.
"It's a little joke that if anyone
says 'you're just doing it (Ranger
Challenge) to get out of forma
tion,' we'll just tell them to come
out for some of our PT sessions
sometime, and they usually drop
the subject," Jones said.
The never-ending training con
tinues on the 13-hour bus ride to
Kansas with forced hydration and
a healthy diet of bananas for
potassium. The team was re
quired to drink one quart of water
every hour.
Epting said the procedure is re
quired to ensure maximum per
formance from the team.
"It's done so they won't dehy
drate themselves once they've
started an event," Epting said.
"They'll sustain the same power
from start to finish. It's the same
way with their diet — it's pretty
well-designed around a lot of
potassium and fresh fruits, and
they stay away from fats."
The team effort it takes to
maintain a strict training and nu
tritional regimen carries over into
how the team performs and how it
deals with adversity. All say that
there is not one individual who
the team looks to for inspiration
— they look to each other.
"The team had overall input
into everything that was going
on," Michaelson said. "It wasn't
just one person's say-so. It was the
whole team. He (Taylor) delegat
ed the individual events and guys
basically were in charge of that
event. That was supposed to be
their specialty, and they were to
ensure the team was trained up to
par for that event.
"It wasn't one or two leaders
with six or seven guys following
them around — it was the whole
team leading everyone. Every
body leads in their own respect."
The ideal that the whole team
leads is important for two reasons.
First, the team never panics and
starts pointing fingers when an
event goes bad. They start looking
ahead to the next challenge.
Second, with a high turnover
rate of team members, it's easy to
integrate new members over the
course of a year if new members
take an active role in leading the
team.
Jones, Stewart, Compton and
Donley are the only returnees for
next year because other team
members are taking staff positions
within the Corps of Cadets or the
strain of competition wears out
the bodies of some members.
"The main reason it's hard for
them to do both is, as staff mem
bers, they have to be there for for
mations," Jones said. "We're nev
er at formation because we're out
training."
Unity was needed more than
ever this year as the Brigade was
faced with defending their region
al championship crown with only
one year of combined team mem
ber experience. The champi
onship team from 1991 had a com
bined 17 years of Ranger Chal
lenge experience.
"There's a big difference there,
as most can see," Epting said.
"It's kind of a blinding glimpse of
the obvious. They had a lot to
overcome and a short amount of
time to do it in. It was really a
challenge."
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