{"id":412235,"date":"2025-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=412235"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:42:26","slug":"gaming-tournament-brings-camaraderie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=412235","title":{"rendered":"Gaming tournament brings camaraderie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ronald Pickrom, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command battle systems manager, plays chess during the 10th AAMDC Video Game Tournament April 2, 2025, on Sembach Kaserne, Germany. Quality of life programs are intended to ease the stress of military life and enhance soldier and family well-being, improve readiness, enhance morale and living environments and personal growth and development (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Lilly Pendergrass).
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\n U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christian Phillips, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command geospatial engineer, plays pool during the 10th AAMDC Video Game Tournament April 2, 2025, on Sembach Kaserne, Germany. Quality of life programs are intended to ease the stress of military life and enhance soldier and family well-being, improve readiness, enhance morale and living environments and personal growth and development (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Lilly Pendergrass).
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\n A game of chess is played during the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command Video Game Tournament April 2, 2025, on Sembach Kaserne, Germany. Quality of life programs are intended to ease the stress of military life and enhance soldier and family well-being, improve readiness, enhance morale and living environments and personal growth and development (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Lilly Pendergrass).
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\n U.S. Army Sgt. Tedric Proctor, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command battle management systems operator, plays a game of chess against Staff Sgt. Geoffrey Ollis, 10th AAMDC battle management systems operator during a video game tournament April 2, 2025, on Sembach Kaserne, Germany. Quality of life programs are intended to ease the stress of military life and enhance soldier and family well-being, improve readiness, enhance morale and living environments and personal growth and development (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Lilly Pendergrass).
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SEMBACH KASERNE, Germany \u2013 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command hosted their first gaming tournament on Apr. 2, at the Community Activity Center in Sembach, Germany. The event aimed to improve Soldiers\u2019 quality of life and social interactions by providing them with a safe and entertaining environment to bring camaraderie and morale to the Soldiers.<\/p>\n

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\n U.S. Army Spc. Alejandro Irby, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command geospatial engineer, plays in the 10th AAMDC Video Game Tournament April 2, 2025, on Sembach Kaserne, Germany. Quality of life programs are intended to ease the stress of military life and enhance soldier and family well-being, improve readiness, enhance morale and living environments and personal growth and development (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Lilly Pendergrass).
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\u201cThis is just one opportunity to be able to bring people together, getting to know the other Soldiers in the community as well,\u201d said U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Allanmarco Cruz, 10th AAMDC headquarters and headquarters battery first sergeant. \u201cEveryone has their own way of relieving stress, and this is just one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n U.S. Army soldiers compete in the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command Video Game Tournament April 2, 2025, on Sembach Kaserne, Germany. Quality of life programs are intended to ease the stress of military life and enhance soldier and family well-being, improve readiness, enhance morale and living environments and personal growth and development (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Lilly Pendergrass).
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Many participants stated that the event was very helpful, as Soldiers described the gaming tournament as \u2018very fun\u2019 and \u2018a good safe space.\u2019 Cruz stated during the event that this is especially important for young Soldiers who are far from home for the first time.<\/p>\n

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\n A game of foosball is played during the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command Video Game Tournament April 2, 2025, on Sembach Kaserne, Germany. Quality of life programs are intended to ease the stress of military life and enhance soldier and family well-being, improve readiness, enhance morale and living environments and personal growth and development (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Lilly Pendergrass).
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\u201cIn a unit, not everyone sees each other every day,\u201d said U.S. Army Sgt. Tedric Proctor, 10th AAMDC Better Opportunity for Single Soldiers Representative, also known as BOSS. \u201cIf we can have events like this, then we get the sections working with each other, getting involved, and learning who they are working with.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tournament was hosted by the unit BOSS program and consisted of Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, Tekken, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Chess and Pool.<\/p>\n

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The BOSS Program supports the overall quality of single service members’ lives (bonfire bachelors, geographical bachelors and single parents). It identifies real well-being issues and concerns by recommending improvements through the chain of command. It encourages and assists single service members in identifying and planning for recreational and leisure activities. Additionally, it gives single service members the opportunity to participate in and contribute to their respective communities. BOSS is a demonstration of the chain of command\u2019s commitment to single service members.<\/p>\n

For more information and updates on 10th AAMDC\u2019s operations, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Linked In<\/a> and X<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \/ 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ronald Pickrom, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command battle systems manager, plays chess during the 10th AAMDC Video Game Tournament April 2, 2025, on Sembach Kaserne, Germany. Quality of life programs are intended to ease the stress of military life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412237,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412235","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\/412235","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=412235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412246,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412235\/revisions\/412246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/412237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}