{"id":235219,"date":"2024-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=235219"},"modified":"2024-07-25T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T17:10:29","slug":"fort-cavazos-waq-team-responds-to-paintball-predicament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=235219","title":{"rendered":"Fort Cavazos WAQ team responds to paintball predicament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Warrior Adventure Quest Team Samantha “SJ” Schellhorn, recreation assistant; Emily Caramanian, WAQ\/Adventure Programming coordinator; and Jeffery Davis, recreation assistant, pose together at the Belton Lake Outdoor Recreation Area Office at Belton, Texas.
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BELTON, Texas \u2014<\/strong> Much like the Soldiers at Fort Cavazos, the Department of the Army civilians at The Great Place are always ready to step up when a need arises \u2014 as demonstrated by the Warrior Adventure Quest team while they were facilitating a paintball activity for a unit in May at the Belton Lake Outdoor Recreation Area paintball courses.<\/p>\n

WAQ is a free program, strictly for Soldiers to use once a year, designed to mitigate bad behaviors, increase adrenaline and provide opportunities to strengthen unity and cohesion amongst Soldiers through different activities \u2014 one of them being paintball.<\/p>\n

Ironically, just as the players were beginning the second round of a game called Medic, where paintballers are tasked with shooting the opposing team\u2019s \u201cmedic,\u201d a player slipped in a muddy area and fractured his leg.<\/p>\n

With the Soldiers were Samantha \u201cSJ\u201d Schellhorn and Jeffery Davis, recreation assistants with WAQ.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ran on top of the situation, noticed that his ankle obviously snapped and that he was lying in water,\u201d Schellhorn explained.<\/p>\n

Davis said the accident happened just seconds after the paintball game began.<\/p>\n

\u201cI turned around to look at SJ, and she was gone down two flights of stairs,\u201d he said. \u201cShe took off flying through the air \u2014 I don\u2019t know, but it was pretty fast. I stopped the match. I was a little confused. I didn\u2019t know what had happened. All I knew was SJ took off running and someone was on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis quickly ran over to Schellhorn who asked him to call their coworker Emily Caramanian, WAQ\/Adventure Programming coordinator, so she could alert emergency services. Unfortunately, Davis had no cell service and couldn\u2019t reach Caramanian, so one of the Soldiers ran at least a quarter-of-a-mile to inform her of the situation.<\/p>\n

Caramanian called 911 and when she arrived at the scene Schellhorn had already informed the WAQ team\u2019s leadership of the situation and Karl Washko, administrative manager at BLORA, was directed to guide the EMS to the paintball courses.<\/p>\n

Schellhorn said she and some of the Soldiers carefully moved the injured paintballer from the water to avoid further injury and so she could assess if the player had sustained an open or closed fracture.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy main concern was, if it was open, of him getting bacteria and stuff in that wound,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Caramanian relayed important information to the EMS who were on their way.<\/p>\n

While waiting for the ambulance to arrive, Schellhorn noticed the injured player started shaking because he was holding up his injured leg with the other in an attempt to keep weight off of his injury. Once again, she took action.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked his permission to sit underneath him and take that weight off of his legs to make him feel more comfortable and he granted me that,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I sat with him until the emergency services arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the series of unfortunate events still hadn\u2019t completely ended \u2014 the ambulance became stuck on its way to the scene due to the muddy conditions. The Soldiers helped to unstick the ambulance while Washko used a work truck to transport the injured Soldier to the ambulance.<\/p>\n

Looking back, Schellhorn said her instincts just took over, as she has had training from Fort Riley, Kansas, where she was previously stationed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve dealt with similar situations, medicalwise, so my previous training had kicked in,\u201d she said. \u201cInstinct kicks in and you know what you have to do in the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the duration of the accident the WAQ team made sure to remain calm and also did their best to help keep the Soldiers calm as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when they saw that the staff was calm and that (the injured Soldier) was doing OK that it kind of helped to keep them and the mood light,\u201d Schellhorn said. \u201cWe made sure to crack jokes with them and stuff like that to make it easier for them because I\u2019m sure it was hard on them seeing their fellow Soldier hurt. Emily did make sure to ask the gentleman, to make sure that he still filled out the WAQ survey before he left \u2014 cracking a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their calm and professional response to the accident received a positive ICE comment that earned praise from garrison leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to note how important our program is \u2014 what it does for Soldiers and how deeply our team cares about what we do and how deeply we care about Soldiers,\u201d Caramanian said. \u201cThat can be reflected in our actions on that day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schellhorn agreed, adding, \u201cI\u2019m definitely dedicated, and I love my job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warrior Adventure Quest Team Samantha “SJ” Schellhorn, recreation assistant; Emily Caramanian, WAQ\/Adventure Programming coordinator; and Jeffery Davis, recreation assistant, pose together at the Belton Lake Outdoor Recreation Area Office at Belton, Texas. (Photo Credit: Photo courtesy of WAQ) VIEW ORIGINAL BELTON, Texas \u2014 Much like the Soldiers at Fort Cavazos, the Department of the Army […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235221,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235222,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235219\/revisions\/235222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}