The victory means the 5\/7 RNZIR would represent New Zealand at the Cambrian Patrol in the UK this October.<\/p>\n
The army competition draws teams from militaries from around the world and will be the first time a New Zealand Army Reserve unit had competed on the world stage.<\/p>\n
Since the win, Butcher and the 5\/7 RNZIR had been taking part in Operation Italy, an emulation of mid-intensity conflict in the South West Pacific near Whanganui.<\/p>\n
These war games develop commanders in battle handling lessons and engaging in quick attacks in open country as part of a training before the reserve\u2019s largest annual exercise, Exercise Tauwharen\u012bkau, in Gore this July.<\/p>\n
Soldiers prepare for a dawn scenario-based attack in Exercise Italy\u2019s open-country conflict scenarios near Whanganui.<\/p>\n
Butcher said the Skill at Arms competition tested the core fundamentals and competencies of being a soldier and had set the 5\/7 RNZIR up well for Exercise Italy and beyond.<\/p>\n
But Butcher said his civilian role as the technical and continuous improvements manager at Turners and Growers directly assisted with his leadership of the platoon.<\/p>\n
\u201c[It] helped me learn to celebrate success in terms of people and it\u2019s given me a different outlook on how to bring people along for the journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s cool to watch our personnel take ownership of themselves and we get some real standout moments from individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Butcher said none of these achievements would have been possible without his family.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wife goes above and beyond while also caring for our two young children, so I can put in the time needed for training.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victory means the 5\/7 RNZIR would represent New Zealand at the Cambrian Patrol in the UK this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8227,14796,4596,24803,1888,5760,211628,6628,211627,22055,193630,211625,3556,111,43,139,69,175095,13235,10665,211626,2044,61,6027,80],"class_list":["post-411395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-army","tag-beating","tag-competition","tag-corporal","tag-first","tag-force","tag-fulltimers","tag-historic","tag-infantry","tag-leads","tag-marched","tag-napierbased","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-platoon","tag-prestigious","tag-reserve","tag-reservist","tag-time","tag-to","tag-win","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}