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we have decided among the the other

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school leadership to come together for

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our spring field training exercise

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primarily because it closely replicates

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what are juniors are going to have to

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experience at the leader development

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and assessment course at L deck which

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is where they're evaluated in between

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the summer of their junior and senior

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years . And what I mean by that is most

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of the time our cadets are evaluated at

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our universities and colleges with

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people that they're familiar with and

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there's somewhat of a comfort level

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that's achieved when you're familiar

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with people bringing them out here and

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mixing them up into squads where they

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don't know anybody else . Because our

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goal is to put every cadet in a squad

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that he doesn't have another . He or

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she does not have another squad member

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that they go to school with . And it

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creates a new group dynamic and it

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allows them the opportunity to lead in

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an environment where they're not

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comfortable with everybody and they

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don't know everyone's strengths and

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weaknesses and sometimes you'll see

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that come out . And another part of our

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leadership reaction course is it's

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interesting that some people will

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assess others on hey we need somebody

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that's tall or somebody that's strong

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to do this . And uh some of it is just

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like physically assessing how somebody

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strength might be and then trying to

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leverage those strengths so that's what

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we're trying to replicate and ah bra

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well I will tell you overall it's been

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very smooth . The one thing that you

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don't really control but you react to

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is weather and we had some pretty

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pretty significant storms yesterday and

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we had lightning in the area . So

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obviously that had an impact on our

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training , but all of us were able to

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pretty much overcome that . We have a

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new training plan for today that's able

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to get the people uh make up some of

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the training for the land . Of course

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it was . We had to cancel last night

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because of the lightning and we're

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gonna roll some some of the other

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companies through on the same land now ,

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of course . So in terms of reacting to

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things , that was the only thing we had

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to react to and everything else . The

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training has been excellent .

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Transportation's been on time , very

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predictable . Um , I don't really have

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any complaints . Um .