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By Lisa Heller
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 21, 1996
This weekend, UA students in a military science class found out what it feels like to be cadets in the Army.About 95 students enrolled in Situational Leadership traveled to Fort Huachuca for the annual Fall Field Training Exercise. Any University of Arizona student can enroll in the one-credit class.
Some students in the Military Science 105 or 205 class have prior experience, but most do not.
"Students hear about the class through a friend and want to learn more about the military," said Ann Ching, a battalion commander for the UA ROTC. "The purpose is to learn, but also to have a good time."
The students met for a one-hour briefing earlier in the semester to review the events at Fort Huachuca.
Students left campus Saturday at 6:45 a.m. and drove almost two hours to get to the Army base.
During the weekend, students rappelled off 40-foot towers and ran through a grenade obstacle course, throwing "dummy" grenades at targets while running under barbed wire and through tunnels.
"It tests your agility and endurance," said Chris Carpenter, civil engineering sophomore and a member of UA's ROTC.
He said participants received points for target accuracy and the person with the most points won an award.
Bree Tansi, nursing sophomore and also a member of the ROTC, said the obstacle course pushed her to her limits.
"You want to give up halfway through, but if you don't, you feel so good at the end," she said.
Students used compasses and maps to get from point to point in a land navigation exercise.
They also took part in a leadership reaction course, which showed them how to appoint a leader and work as a team to solve an obstacle or problem.
After the events, students toured the 11th Signal Brigade, a working Army facility at Fort Huachuca.
"That's real Army life," Tansi said. "It's nice to see how it all comes together as one big unit."
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