Ruck On! Unit march signals farewell for 937th TRSS commander

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6/1/2012 --  6/1/2012 - JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas -- Airmen from the 937th Training Support Squadron execute a ruck march May 18 at the Medical Readiness Training Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis. The march was held as part of a final commander's call for Lt. Col. Jon T. Mohatt, who leaves for a new assignment in Falls Church, Va., in June.

With a presence on both JBSA-Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis, the 937th TRSS is responsible for supporting the Medical Education Training Campus' Air Force component as well as providing medical readiness training to more than 6,000 Airmen a year.

As part of the Base Realignment and Closure Act, the 937th TRSS moved from Sheppard Air Force Base to JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, and the MRTC stood up at Camp Bullis during Mohatt's two-year tenure as commander.

"It's been a remarkable honor to command such an excellent team and I am humbled to have been their servant leader for the past two years," Mohatt said during his last commander's call. "It will be extremely diffi cult to hand off this squadron, but I know they will continue to excel."

Team STRIKE - the acronym for the squadron's mission of "Support and Train Readiness with Integrity, Knowledge and Excellence" - conducts a ruck march as part of its Aeromedical Evacuation Contingency Operations Training course.

The AECOT ruck march is comprised of a 3.4 mile hike with land navigation between multiple points. The AECOT ruck march is used to place students in a simulated deployment environment, and train them to use maps and compasses to locate air-dropped supplies and move them to a build site.