FORT RILEY, Kansas – Fort Riley officials have announced that 10 teams of U.S. Army Soldiers converged on Fort Riley August 13 for a grueling series of events that tests warrior and battlefield medical skills. The twenty Soldiers are competing in a four-day competition for the coveted title of Best Medic, Regional Health Command – Central. The winning team will compete in the U.S. Army Best Medic Competition Sept. 15-20 at Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

The competition is open to any Soldier who has earned the Expert Field Medical Badge and/or the Combat Medic Badge. Competing teams represent the following organizations:
.       Irwin Army Community Hospital, Fort Riley, Kansas
.       William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Fort Bliss, Texas
.       Reynolds Army Health Clinic, Fort Sill, Oklahoma
.       General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital Fort Leonard Wood,
Missouri
.       Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital, Fort Polk, Louisiana
.       Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, Texas
.       Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam
Houston, Texas
.       Dental Health Command – Central, Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam
Houston, Texas
.       Evans Army Community Hospital, Fort Carson, Colorado
.       Public Health Command- Central, Joint Base San Antonio, e