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4A The Scout FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2015
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40th ESB Family member through the preliminary exercise of briefing the road units across Fort Huachuca who donated approximately 2,000
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The Fort Huachuca Chaplains’ Food Locker was re-
plenished with approximately 2,000 pounds of food after Calvert opened with an invocation highlighting those “It’s been said that we make a living by what we get,
162 participants completed the Ruck for Freedom July 2. freedoms Soldiers fight for daily, including the flag, the but we make a life by what we give,” he said. “Helping
constitution and personal dignity while honoring the others is something we can all do, whether it’s spending
Spearheaded by Chap. (Capt.) Andrew Calvert, bat- memory of those who went before. Participants then more time with your family, developing a Soldier who
talion chaplain, 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion began the Ruck for Freedom bearing unit colors and shows potential, helping people in the community – like
(ESB), the event featured a 10-kilometer ruck march the “burden” of their donations. The 10-kilometer route ruck marching to give a food donation for our Army
where participants completed the march with rucksacks took marchers from Sentinel Field, up and over Heritage Families, or putting your own desires on hold to benefit
filled with personally donated non-perishable items Hill, down Apache Flats and back to Sentinel Field. your Family or your team.
needed in the Food Locker.
Attendees were given two hours to complete the “The Samaritan, who was traveling from one city to
Ruck for Freedom participants, representing several route as an individual effort. Joyfully, everyone, includ- another, had no idea that he would cross paths with this
units across Fort Huachuca, gathered at Sentinel Field ing a Family pushing a stroller, completed the course victim of a roadside robbery. But, he gave pause to his
next to Eifler Fitness Center at 4:30 a.m. July 2. Unit in one hour and 45 minutes. Calvert explained how the own mission for the sake and dignity of another human
Ministry Teams from the 40th ESB, 111th Military In- Ruck for Freedom was a real application of the Army’s being.
telligence (MI) Brigade, and the Garrison Religious Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness initiative,
providing a way to increase physical and psychological “Today, you all have done something,” Calvert con-
PHOTOS COURTESY OF CHAP. (CAPT.) ANDREW CALVERT health, resilience and enhance the performance of Sol- cluded. “Today, you have been a Samaritan.”
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treated finishing marchers to tables filled with juices,
fruits, cheeses and pastries concluding the event with
an outdoor prayer breakfast led by the chaplains of the
111th MI Bde. and the 40th ESB.
After the donations were unloaded, chaplains offered
prayers of thanksgiving, prayers for the Nation, military
leaders, Soldiers and Families.
Calvert concluded the event with the parable of the
Good Samaritan from Luke 10:34-35 and its relation to
the Ruck for Freedom.
