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October 9, 2008

Ready, aim ...

Spc. Turk Koshiba, a gunner with 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 5th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, shows a child a .50-caliber machine gun mount on an armored personnel carrier at the Amigo Airsho Sunday. Photo by Stephen Baack.

Members of the Fort Bliss men’s and women’s teams pose for a photo Sunday after the men placed first and the women placed third in their respective active-duty divisions at the 24th annual Army Ten-Miler race in Washington, D.C. Photo by Joe Fedak.

Ten-Miler victory
Bliss men’s team places first, women place third in D.C. race    

Dustin Perry

Editor

The Fort Bliss men’s team placed first and the women placed third in Sunday’s Army Ten-Miler, thus living up to a promise the teams’ coach made in the months leading up to the race.

Before arriving in Washington, D.C., for the annual event, which drew the maximum 26,000 participants, Larry Smith said last week his objective was for both teams to finish within the top three of their respective active-duty team divisions. The men’s victory marked the first time in the race’s 24-year history that a Fort Bliss team won in any of the race’s military categories.

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