JB MDL hosts Armed Forces Wrestling Championship

Air Force Terrell Walker tries for a pin to counter Army Oscar Wood’s attempt at a throw in the 84 kg. Greco Roman style match March 16, 2013, at the Armed Forces Wrestling Championship, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Wood, a 2004 Olympic wrestling team and Army assistant coach, holds his opponent off with leverage on Walker’s hip. Walker scrambles to get chest-to-chest, the most dominant wrestling position which provides a controlled center of gravity and diminishes an opponent’s ability to escape. This was Walker’s first duel in an Armed Forces championship. Walker won the first period, 5-0, bringing his team to their feet. Wood came back to win the two subsequent periods and thus the round, though Wood suffered a displaced rib in the duel. Walker is stationed at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., and calls Eglin, Ill., home. Wood is stationed at Fort Carson, Colo. He hails from Gresham, Ore. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Denise Johnson/Released)