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Mhm . Yeah . Yeah .

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Mhm . Yeah

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mm hmm . Yeah . Yeah . Uh huh .

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Uh Yeah . Uh

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huh .

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Yeah . Mhm mm .

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Mhm . For Bliss hosted the

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2012 Western Regional Dental command .

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Our commission officer and soldier of

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the year best warrior competition . The

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week long event challenged the dental

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specialists in physical fitness

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combatants . M . 16 rifle qualification

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military knowledge and bearing . Which

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was to determine the Western regional

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soldier and N . C . O . Of the year in

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the A . P . F . D . Does the army

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physical fitness test are the soldiers

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we have the soldiers in the in the in

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the in the track basically it consists

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of three events . That's the push ups

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sit ups and they told me I run uh

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Soviet has two minutes to do as many

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pushups as they can two minutes to do

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as many set up so they can and

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according to the age bracket they have

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to complete that run in a specific

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amount of time . Mhm . We have to solve

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this uh in the range basically

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qualifying with the M16 because that's

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the weapon of that's the weapon

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assigned to the to the soldier . So

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they must be able to as you know they

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must be able to to be proficient

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in uh in in their assigned weapons . Uh

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Not only they have to be able to hit

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the target but they have to be able to

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zero the weapon . So so

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They can make sure that where they

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aiming that's what the what the bullet

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is hitting . So they went there they

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zero their weapons and then they have

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30 rounds to hit as many you know to

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hit the target as many times as they as

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they can . The L . R . C . Is a

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leader's reaction course . And it's

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basically what it is is we have set up

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a five different events events and for

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example the soldier has to if you have

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a a my mind field that you have to move

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a casualty from from

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from point A . To point B . But you

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have to go over that a minefield . How

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are you going to do that ? So basically

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this is a confidence course that tried

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to teach them Number one to be

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confident that they can do the task and

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number two they work as a team . So

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they got to make sure that they relied

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on each other so they can complete the

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tasking that uh that it was given to

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them . Uh this is there was a time

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event . They got just five minutes 5-7

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minutes just to read the instructions .

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This is what you need to do and you

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gotta you gotta do it as a as a team .

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We have the soldiers we need to be able

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to date at night navigation , day and

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night land navigation . Meaning that

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the soldiers they get they get a map .

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They get a compass . They got a lot of

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points and they have to go and find and

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find those points in the morning

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basically what we do . They have uh

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three hours to find uh four

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points and um they are full full

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gear , full battle rattle . They got

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the , you know the rostock , they got

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the Cavallari , they got their weapon

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and they go they got to go out there to

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navigate from Point A . To Point B . Um

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They have to , first of all , they have

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to be able to read a map , they have to

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be able to read a compass and they have

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to be able to uh use their pace count ,

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that they already uh figured it out

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before they started and go from from

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Point A . To point B . So what are what

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are the events that they have to do is

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a road marked , the six mile road march

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in a full full gear . We have , they

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have between 35 £40 Russak

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and they have the same , you know ,

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Cavallari , they have their their

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weapons and they have they have , I

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want to have to complete the six miles

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six miles role March . Um

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again , but we do basically , we've got

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to make sure that everybody is in the

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same playing field . So we wait that

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everything that they have on before

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they start the roll march and we wait

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everything after they finished the role

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march , so make sure that it's not that

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didn't drop anything in between or you

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know , we want to make sure that

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everybody is doing the same the same

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effort during that event .

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Mhm . The mr event ensured that

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soldiers were faced with different

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scenarios . One event tested the

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ability of the soldier to handle a

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rollover while riding in a humvee .

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Yeah

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Soldiers were also placed inside a

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360° Panoramic view of a simulated

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mission in Afghanistan where soldiers

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had to navigate themselves through

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dangerous terrain while fighting off

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insurgents .

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Yeah

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so one of the other mystery events was

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because we got so many uh so many

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changes in 6 71 . That's uh the army

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uniforms . Uh What we did , we have a

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different type of uniforms of course ,

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you know the class A of the A . S . C .

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U . We have a female uniform , we got

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an officer's uniform , we got an N . C .

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O . Uniform , we got an enlisted

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uniform and we move stuff around . We

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we made some that we created some

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deficiencies in those uniform and

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basically the soldiers has a specific

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amount of time to go to each one of

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those uniform , notice what the

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deficiencies were and there's basically

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write it down . Uh That's this is this

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is a good way for the soldiers to pay

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attention to when they see uh appears

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when they see their own uniform that

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you want to catch any deficiencies

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right away . So we went from moving

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ribbons and ribbons around to having

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the wrong ranks or to have in the

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ranked the ribbons too high so they

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have to be able to know what right

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looks like . So they can make all this

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populations or they can prepare their

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own uniforms without even have to look

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at the regulation to accept national .

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One of the events that we we did was

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what we call the Mst si doesn't medical

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simulator training center . This is an

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amazing facility because the soldier

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actually are like in a combat zone in

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there and as I said we are combat

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medics . So when when there is an

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injury , they don't see a dental

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soldiers , they see a medic with the

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medical patch . Also . Also while they

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finish this they go to a second phase

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which is the one that they have to

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basically go to map level four which is

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basically they are under either

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chemical or gas attacks or they have to

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uh go to map level four they have to

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put all the equipment on , they have

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tested , make sure they are safe . So

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basically when they go through through

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the through the field they , one of the

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things that they have to do they have

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to identify we had a land mines or I .

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E . D . S hidden on the on the ground

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and they got to make sure that they

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identify those uh those explosive

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devices and they have to call it in .

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So uh the audience uh

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a team can come and basically they

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activate or explode that uh the

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audience also in all the exciting part

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of this uh this process is that they go

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to a building and they are confronted

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by by a terrorist by the enemy enemy by

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person . And uh they have to be able to

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know how to detain these these

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terrorists . And what we what we did

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was we we have those enemies with

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actually intel with them and weapons

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also with them . So they got to be able

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to uh basically disarm these

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terrorists and data intel information

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that that this person is caring and we

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basically make sure that they know what

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to do with that intel . So they got a

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call and they have to basically call

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the the right authority authorities to

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come and report . You don't give them

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the intel . Uh as soon as as soon as as

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soon as possible the old events that

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they were competing . It was the oral

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or a board . And this is basically a

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board comprised all the first sergeants

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for the from from from the den Tax and

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uh you know the soldier is in uh in

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class a uniform or a S . U . Uniform

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and uh they sit down and it's uh

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is a rapid fire . We use a rapid fire .

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Uh We call it rapid fire question and

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answer with the soldiers meaning that

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you have uh all first audience asking

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your questions from different ways and

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you should have to react with the with

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the questions that they ask you . Um we

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cover a variety of big range of

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everything . Uh any army regulation ,

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any F . M . N . E . A . R . Or anything

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that has to be that we feel that the

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soldier should be able to to to to

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answer . We have two different boards .

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We got one for the for the N . C . O .

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S . And we got one for the for the list

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but we use the same concept of rapid

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fire with with the candidates .

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One of the most exciting events that we

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have is the combative tournament . And

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basically what it is is we we go to the

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combative school here uh For for police

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basically we have an official combative

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tournament and uh we have the N . C . O .

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S . Fighting against against the N . C .

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O . S . And we got the soldiers

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basically competing against against

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against the soldiers . Uh We have

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basically a round robin type of

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competition where they actually fight

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everybody . I mean all the N . C . O .

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S . Fight all the other N . C . O . S .

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And all the soldiers they fight all the

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other soldiers and basically according

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to the technique that they use

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according to how they bring down the

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opponent . They start getting points uh

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for for every everything that they do

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and yeah when they finished all

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seven we have seven rounds . When they

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fill in all seven rounds then we can we

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compute all the points and uh whoever

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the winners of the N . C . O . Dan it's

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gonna fight for you know for bragging

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rights and for the champion

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of the combative tournament , the N . C .

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O . Champion five day uh the

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soldier that won the competition for

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the soldiers and uh then it's

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just you know , the final the final

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winner .

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Yeah .

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Yeah .

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All right ,

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mm . Mhm .

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Mhm . Mhm . Yes .

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Yeah .

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Yeah . Uh huh .

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Yeah . Yeah .