WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:02.619 Let's go , candidates . Let's go . 00:03.390 --> 00:07.210 Hurry ups . My name is 00:07.210 --> 00:09.390 Captain Ian Cannon . I'm the Bravo 00:09.390 --> 00:12.489 troop commander for 1124 Cavalry in the 00:12.489 --> 00:14.489 Texas National Guard . I'm also the 00:14.489 --> 00:16.711 officer in charge of the Spur ride . So 00:16.711 --> 00:18.545 I put the whole thing together , 00:18.545 --> 00:20.656 planned it , and got it executed with 00:20.656 --> 00:20.290 all of the NCOs that helped out . So 00:20.290 --> 00:22.457 the Spur ride is all about tradition , 00:22.457 --> 00:24.290 cavalry tradition . It is a team 00:24.290 --> 00:24.264 building exercise . So we break them 00:24.264 --> 00:25.986 all down into teams . We split 00:25.986 --> 00:28.153 everybody up from across the troops to 00:28.153 --> 00:30.320 kind of spread the wealth . So we have 00:30.320 --> 00:29.694 our sport company , our headquarters 00:29.694 --> 00:31.861 company , an infantry troop , and then 00:31.861 --> 00:33.805 two reconnaissance troops . Spread 00:33.805 --> 00:35.861 everybody across . They have to come 00:35.861 --> 00:35.784 together as a team with people they may 00:35.784 --> 00:38.165 not know or or may not know very well 00:38.444 --> 00:40.685 and with a wide variety of experience . 00:41.069 --> 00:43.180 And then we put them together through 00:43.180 --> 00:45.291 all these lanes , so some of them are 00:45.291 --> 00:45.220 going to be cavalry focused , some of 00:45.220 --> 00:47.276 them are going to be maintenance and 00:47.276 --> 00:49.498 support focused , and they just have to 00:49.498 --> 00:51.669 figure out what the task is and then 00:51.669 --> 00:53.891 accomplish that task . And we also have 00:53.891 --> 00:56.113 a land nav element to it where they had 00:56.113 --> 00:58.113 to actually navigate to each one of 00:58.113 --> 01:00.430 their lanes , different , different 01:00.430 --> 01:02.541 distances , so they had to plot their 01:02.541 --> 01:04.541 points . Some of them were about 89 01:04.541 --> 01:06.763 clicks apart , some of them were 3 or 4 01:06.763 --> 01:08.874 clicks apart , so varying movements , 01:08.874 --> 01:08.629 but we also did start off with a 12 01:08.629 --> 01:10.830 mile ruck march . So the spur , of 01:10.830 --> 01:13.108 course I mean it's it's a simple thing , 01:13.108 --> 01:15.330 right ? The actual spur itself , it's , 01:15.330 --> 01:17.552 you know what horse mounted cavalry and 01:17.552 --> 01:19.719 anybody who rides horses tends to wear 01:19.719 --> 01:19.419 just kind of help control the horse and 01:19.430 --> 01:21.809 and spur them on but the spur today , 01:22.190 --> 01:24.134 um , it is a symbol of the cavalry 01:24.134 --> 01:26.246 tradition , so it's something that we 01:26.246 --> 01:28.468 earn through doing these spur rides and 01:28.468 --> 01:30.523 of course your gold spurs are earned 01:30.523 --> 01:30.339 earned if you actually go to combat 01:30.339 --> 01:32.395 with the cavalry in it , but what it 01:32.395 --> 01:34.561 means is you . Through a spur ride you 01:34.561 --> 01:36.783 went through some sort of team building 01:36.783 --> 01:38.950 challenge to earn those spurs , so you 01:38.950 --> 01:41.061 came through as a team , you executed 01:41.061 --> 01:43.117 it , you accomplished this task . So 01:43.117 --> 01:45.450 just like anything else in the military , 01:45.450 --> 01:44.900 any other schools , courses , whatever , 01:45.150 --> 01:47.261 it , it is something you earn . So it 01:47.261 --> 01:49.372 is something you can walk away at the 01:49.372 --> 01:51.428 end of the day and say , hey , I , I 01:51.428 --> 01:53.539 met this challenge and I accomplished 01:53.539 --> 01:53.389 it . I , I defeated whatever it was 01:53.389 --> 01:55.056 that was gonna hold me back . 01:58.809 --> 02:01.889 My name is Vasquez Matthew and I'm a PD 02:01.889 --> 02:04.069 too . The spur ride , it was pretty 02:04.069 --> 02:07.080 difficult at first , the 12 mile , uh , 02:07.250 --> 02:09.361 pushed through it , and then the next 02:09.361 --> 02:11.528 day I didn't expect for all the points 02:11.528 --> 02:14.729 to be really far , like 6 miles away 02:14.729 --> 02:17.007 from each other . I didn't expect that . 02:17.007 --> 02:19.173 I thought I think it'd be way closer , 02:19.173 --> 02:21.396 but you know we kept on pushing through 02:21.396 --> 02:23.562 it , and I'm glad we , we got here and 02:23.562 --> 02:25.673 got our Spurs . I enjoyed it . It was 02:25.673 --> 02:27.580 definitely . Not your everyday 02:27.580 --> 02:30.020 experience , but I enjoyed every part 02:30.020 --> 02:32.339 of it with my team and my lane Walker 02:32.339 --> 02:34.399 that helped me go through all that . 02:36.259 --> 02:38.537 I am Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Moran . 02:38.537 --> 02:40.759 I command the Mars men , 1st Squadron , 02:40.759 --> 02:42.759 124th Cavalry Regiment , Texas Army 02:42.759 --> 02:45.190 National Guard out of Waco , and we are 02:45.190 --> 02:48.190 out here doing a spur ride , which is a 02:48.190 --> 02:50.246 sort of a point of pride for cavalry 02:50.246 --> 02:52.412 troopers , not cavalry scouts . I have 02:52.412 --> 02:54.246 all branches out here doing it . 02:54.246 --> 02:56.412 Mechanics , medics , even the chaplain 02:56.412 --> 02:58.357 is having a crack , although we're 02:58.357 --> 03:00.523 cutting him slack on weapons . What it 03:00.523 --> 03:02.746 consists of is it starts with a 12 mile 03:02.746 --> 03:04.357 stroll through the Fort Hood 03:04.357 --> 03:06.357 countryside . Avoiding AH 64s which 03:06.357 --> 03:08.523 have kindly been provided by the first 03:08.523 --> 03:10.579 Cav aviators . The whole thing lasts 03:10.579 --> 03:12.579 about 56 hours , ends with the Spur 03:12.579 --> 03:14.801 Olympics and the Spur board , and if at 03:14.801 --> 03:16.690 the end of it all they are deemed 03:16.690 --> 03:18.857 worthy , they are presented with their 03:18.857 --> 03:20.912 spurs that they are then expected to 03:20.912 --> 03:22.746 wear at any other future cavalry 03:22.746 --> 03:23.746 occasions . 03:27.789 --> 03:29.990 I'm Precious Hunt , Bravo Troop 124 03:29.990 --> 03:32.190 calf . I was a part of the Spur ride . 03:32.350 --> 03:34.461 It's really hot , a lot of bugs , but 03:34.461 --> 03:36.683 really proud of my team . We were the , 03:36.683 --> 03:38.683 we're the only team to make it with 03:38.683 --> 03:40.794 everybody left that we started with . 03:40.794 --> 03:43.017 Uh , the Spur Olympics was definitely a 03:43.017 --> 03:42.669 curveball . Didn't expect that at the 03:42.669 --> 03:45.100 end . Um , I love doing the lanes . I 03:45.100 --> 03:47.211 love learning , learning new things . 03:47.211 --> 03:49.378 So it'd be a little fun , soak it up . 03:49.750 --> 03:53.509 Happy to finish this . Oh yeah , big 03:53.509 --> 03:55.565 time . Really happy to hear my Spurs 03:55.565 --> 03:57.787 with the right foot . Are you married ? 03:57.787 --> 03:59.898 Lift your left foot . Look down . Are 03:59.898 --> 04:03.660 you married or single ? Hey , 04:05.449 --> 04:07.671 you guys had a way better pass rate and 04:07.671 --> 04:07.820 a bigger number .