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Video by Spc. Jennily Leonrodriguez

DoD Warrior Games 2019

55th Public Affairs Company (Combat Camera)

June 21, 2019 | 2:38

Team Army athletes attend wheelchair basketball practice June 21, 2019, at the Short Fitness and Sports Center, MacDill Air Force Base, in preparation for the for the Department of Defense Warrior Games. The DoD Warrior Games are conducted June 21-30, hosted by Special Operations Command, Tampa, Florida. It is an adaptive sports competition for wounded, ill and injured service member and veterans. Approximately 300 athletes representing teams from teams from the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Special Operations Command, United Kingdom Armed Forces, Australian Defence Force, Canadian Armed Forces, Armed forces of the Netherlands, and the Danish Armed Forces will compete in archery, cycling, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, track, field, wheelchair basketball, indoor rowing, powerlifting, and for the first time in Warrior Games history, golf, wheelchair tennis, and wheelchair rugby. (U.S. Army video by Spc. Jennily LeonRodriguez)