Taylor to host ‘Warrior Week’

Posted on April 7, 2021

Taylor County will host a group of wounded service members and their children for a week of hunting, fishing and family fun beginning April 11 for Combat Marine Outdoors’ (CMO) Warrior Week.

The Taylor County community is invited to welcome nine warriors at the Holiday Inn on April 11 at 12:30 p.m.

The service members include a captain, a chief warrant officer, a master gunnery sergeant, a first sergeant, a chief petty officer, a colonel, a staff sergeant and two sergeant majors.

Combined, they have more than 160 years of active duty service to their country and over 25 combat deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa, as well as deployments in support of humanitarian and training missions across the globe.

Some of their personal service awards include: Bronze Star medals with “V” valor devices, Meritorious Service medals, Navy and Marine Corps commendation medals with “V” valor devices, Navy and Marine Corps achievement medals with “V” valor devices, Joint Service medals, an Army commendation medal, Army achievement medals and Outstanding Volunteer medals.

“The warriors this year are the subject matter experts in their military occupational field or, in a couple of cases, the entire branch of service they represent,” local organizer Dana Schwab said. “We have a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement, intelligence specialist, military police, marksmanship instructors, dive supervisor, survival and resistance instructors and demolitions instructors.”

This year’s activities will consist of a day of shooting sporting clays, two days of hog hunting, two days of flats fishing, one day of turkey hunting, and a “fun day,” which includes touring the local Camlocker manufacturing facility.

The Warrior Week guests will also be treated to a picnic lunch and an afternoon of ATV mud bogging hosted by Iron Horse Mud Ranch.