How can I help my Soldier compete for BWC (Best Warrior Competition)?

First of all congratulations to you and your Soldier! To your Soldier for going the extra mile and to you for being chosen to guide and assist! It is going to be challenging and rewarding. There definitely guidelines of general military knowledge and PT that need to be honed in on but we had a lot of things that truly tested warriors nonconventiknal strength and knowledge. She will be competing to be gain the title of being the best of the best! At our installation we had thirty competitors competing for the best DS, AIT PSG, NCO, Soldier, Joint NCO and Joint SM. Our competition lasted four days and encompassed weapons qualification, APFT, non conventional physical assessment, road March with stations for hands on testing, combatives, Drill and Ceremony, land navigation, obstacle/confidence course, written test, as well as a traditional board. By the end of the competition there were only 22 of the original 30 service members remaining. Needless to say there were a few curve balls but in our line of work that's exactly what Soldiers need to be prepared for.

You should go through DVIDS and look for BWC stories that have been written. You will see what people have had to go through throughout the Army.

Obstacle course. Rope climbing and rappelling, especially if she's scared of heights. I'm not sure if combatives is still an event. It was when I was assisting and refereeing. Work on core conditioning since the duration will wear her out. We had a road March of eight miles then right into IWQ.

You can never plan for the mystery event. Rappelling was it once. A stress shoot one time. Enter and clear a room with UTM rounds against a combative enemy was another.

If I think of anything else I'll come back.


Ahhh im back. Weapons. 249, 240, .50, MK19

Lots of PT, Marksmanship, and Warrior Tasks and Battle Drills. Practice Boards too...

But, first and foremost, see what your 1SG/CSM says!

Start them early. Also give them rewards on a variable schedule as they perform the steps to prepare. This variable, not fixed, schedule of rewards trains the mind to seek the reward addictively. It will motivate them to become a junkie of the material and of winning. This information only serves to cover the knowledge testing portion. If you set a person up like this it becomes similar to the addiction people get when playing slot machines, and in this case the jackpot is the BWC title.

Get with others in your unit to help mentor her in all areas covered in the BWC. Medical, Supply, training with BRM practice, anything to assist them to do better. Ask what areas she feels weak in and needs extra practice or information work on those areas a little more but just be supportive and available to help. This is our approach from my Guard unit we just picked our candidates this weekend and so the next three months will be assisting them to give the time and resources they need to do the best that they can.

Thank you everyone for your responses! My soldier took second in the state! She was the top scorer for the board, apft and rope climb. She was the only female to compete and was heavily watched by a few sergeant majors and colonels and higher.
She was actually featured in our state army guards blog post for women's heritage month.

Link to story below:
http://mil.wa.gov/blog/news/post/womens-history-month-spotlight-spc-julie-e-keppner

send her to Soldier of the Month competition, and any other compertitions you can think of

Train with them and make sure they know!

SSG,
Many BWC include events based on basic soldier skills, i.e land nav, pt test, marksmanship, ect.
I would go back to the fundamentals and ensure that your soldier is proficient in all those catagories.
Also, many competitions hold a board that include current events, knowledge of doctrine, drill and ceremony, uniform and awards be sure your soldier knows how to address a board and how to compete in said board. armystudyguide.com has alot of information in alot of these topics.
Good Luck!