We visited Fort Riley Army Base in Junction City, Kansas! Our team had an incredible experience witnessing what soldiers do, from rigorous training to intense physical challenges. A big thank you to our partners at GEHA Health and all who joined us for this incredible day!
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So today we have the opportunity to have an event with the support staff of the Kansas City Chiefs and have them visit here at Fort Riley, KS, the home of the First Infantry Division. Different errors of the cavalry, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and then right at the beginning of the Second World War. We have done a number of trips out to Fort Riley. We used to make draft picks from here. We send business staff here a couple times of year and we've really gotten. To know and embrace the military community out here, it's an opportunity for us to see first hand what our military members sacrificed to be here and really what they do to serve our country. But at the same time, it gives business staff an opportunity to kind of take in the learnings and see how the military operates. And it makes us a stronger organization as well. Thank you so much for, on behalf of the Kansas City Chiefs in GH, thank you for having me. Outstanding. Thank you. OHH just kind of represents the history of the Calvary and this organization and what it means to the to the United States and so along history on this installation. Just want to present this to you guys find a place to hang it up headquarters. So you want to present you with a football that we can display the number you would like to. So here is this and then here in the session and thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. I'm coach Chris, I'm at the Fort Riley basketball coach here. Hi, I'm a specialist. I am a 25B, so I work IT and signal. Grandma Stafford Howard I'm a 13 clocks on the quarter. My first class mushroom I'm 31B military police officer trying to start in Harrison 15W. And we started today by going to the museum which being able to show not only the history of the base itself, but a little bit about our division and the history of the Calvary within the United States Army. But the fact that you guys were able to go down to one of our fitness centers and meet our military basketball association team because I think it shows all the different opportunities that exist for soldiers within the Army today while each one of those. Rogers had a different military occupation in terms of being an infantryman, military intelligence like wheel mechanic. They're able to take time off to actually train together as a basketball team again, to go out into the community and show within the Army. We're not just training all day. That's our other opportunities that exist. Well, when I asked you. Hey. We get to do this. It kind of had like that camaraderie in this, in the sport that we all pretty much were raised playing our whole life. So we essentially get to travel with our with our friends and our family to go play the sport we love. So I think that's what military basketball about. Just like the chief staff, when you think about an NFL team, you're always thinking about that player on the field, but there's over 100 / 1000 people behind that player making sure they're able to do what they need to do on Sundays. Just like when you think about the Army and an infantryman on the ground. There is light wheel mechanics fixing the vehicles to get them there. We have finance individuals making sure soldiers get paid. We have military intelligence being out out there being able to find what the actual terrain and enemy looks like. There's so many things that exist within both of our organizations to be able to support that one person on the ground having the opportunity to connect with soldiers that are not close to home. We've met people today that are more than 2000 miles away from their hometowns and you find some synergies. So we met someone that is from the East Coast and is from where? I'm from and it's those interactions that you get that I think it brightens our days, but it also brightens some of their days as well. So what is combatives? Essentially the armies martial arts, for lack of a better term. So it's fighting in closed spaces. So that includes using your rifle, which you'll see that includes using a secondary weapon like a knife or a pistol, and it includes grappling, takedown, hand, hand combat. I realize that that is good. It's good if I could. You guys, you take me down. Perfect. Dummy. Just relax, yeah? So just coming up, coming at me. The City chiefs and the GE HA Certain Blake want to present you this coin and certificate. Thank you for your demonstration today. Thank you, Sir. Specialist Lynch after Kansas City Chiefs and GHA. Thank you. Don't get army. Thank you Sir did you didn't hurt our guys. I appreciate it. I'm a retired comedian * major so I appreciate all you guys service. We do share a lot of the same community and especially here at Fort Riley First City Division, we're all about people, and not only for the soldiers and the families within the division, but our local communities as well. Very similar to the Chiefs. We have an absolute vested interest in supporting the local community, not only here within Kansas and Missouri. Area, but also nationally. And a partnership like this is a great opportunity to show not only the different things that we can do together, but how we present our own organizations to the greater community. On behalf of the Kansas City Chiefs and GHA, we want to thank you so much for having us out today and let us participate in this and and see all the the cool vehicles that you guys have over here in you maintain. Thank you very much. Thank you. Means a lot to us and they'll come out here and then we get to come out there because. We are all part of the same community. We go to the same churches, we go to the same schools, we go same grocery stores. And while we're here, we are Kansans. And it's it's good to meet you all, but put a face with that. So thank you so much for the bottom of our hearts. Thank you.To view or add a comment, sign in
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1moLove Fort Riley! My Grandpa retired from there and the U.S. Army. ❤️ Thank you to all American troops! God Bless the U.S.A.!!! America is still Great. 😃