SUPPORTING THE FUTURE FORCE
to get involved in as many different requirements as early as you can to gain experience.”
Prihoda has been in the acquisition workforce for three years, following six years as an infantry Soldier with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His military service also includes four years with the Marine Corps, where he served before attending college and law school. “I applied to become a 51C [contracting NCO] in 2015, and accessed into the field in 2016. What appealed the most to me was being able to use past experiences in the field of purchasing, and working with federal regulations.”
Fort Hood is Prihoda’s first acquisition duty station, and his nine-month stint in Poland was his first forward assignment as a contracting NCO. “It was a great experience to be forward with the units we support, and to see how contracting efforts have an immediate and direct impact on the mission,” he said. It was also somewhat of a baptism by fire. “In garrison, the contracting process has a fairly long timeline. But in a forward assignment, someone will come to you on Monday and ask you for some- thing they needed yesterday. Missions change rapidly, so there’s a much shorter turnaround time. It really required me to think and move quickly.”
His return from Poland coincided with a request from a fellow Soldier to join him in training for the Best Warrior Competition. In May, he beat out nine other Soldiers in a weeklong event and was named ACC Best Warrior of the Year. He represented ACC at the U.S. Army Materiel Command’s Best Warrior Competi- tion, which was held at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, in July. (Sgt. 1st Class Reginald Alexander, a contracting NCO with the 921st Contracting Battalion at Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, came out on top at that event.)
Te competition includes physical fitness as well as knowledge of Army tasks and exercises. Prihoda and the other participants completed the Army physical fitness test, an 8-mile road march, weapons qualification, combat water survival, warrior battle drills and land navigation, as well as an interview with a board of ACC senior NCOs, a written test and an essay.
“Sergeant Prihoda is the total package, and well-deserving of the title of ACC’s best NCO,” said ACC Command Sgt. Maj. Jill Crosby. “He is articulate, in amazing physical condition, and exceeds the standards in all the best warrior competition events.”
—SUSAN L. FOLLETT
BEING THE BEST
Prihoda represented Army Contracting Command at the 2019 Best Warrior Competition. (Photo by Ben Gonzales, MICC)
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