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mm hmm .

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Best water

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competition does a couple of things .

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It provides soldiers with an

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opportunity to do training outside of

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their unit with other soldiers from

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other units in the National Guard .

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They wouldn't normally have an

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opportunity to do , which builds

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cohesion across the garden across units

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in the garden . It also provides an

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opportunity for soldiers to be

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professionally developed through a

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series of extremely challenging

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physical and professional knowledge

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type events . I would say the best

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thing for this competition has been the

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camaraderie building , There's only

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five of us competing . So it's been a

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small group . I wasn't expecting that

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come the challenges just about having

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fun when it comes to doing competitions

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like this . That's how I'm looking at

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it right here . I think soldiers

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compete and the best word competition

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because they want to set themselves

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apart both from their peers in the eyes

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of their peers and to their leaders ,

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gives them the opportunity to go out

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and demonstrate what they're capable of

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and their own personal high level of

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motivation to the people who are in

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charge of them . It keeps me going is

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trying to represent my unit . They've

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been really good to me . Trying to look

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good for them . It's a good opportunity

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as a young soldier to see what you're

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made of personally and see how you

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ranked against your fellow soldiers in

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the garden