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so we're here for the best word

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competition for 2012 to name the best

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NGO and soldier of the year . We have a

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lot of physically and mentally

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challenging tasks . A PFT did a 16 K

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Road march , did a land of course today ,

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a series of army warrior tasks and

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we're gonna do a M nine M 16

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qualification , determine who is the

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best of the best . Sergeant major

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Jennings came up with the basic concept

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of what he wanted to see out here . Uh

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kind of gave me an idea of some of the

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things he wanted to see as far as

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events and tasks and then myself and

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Sergeant Harris , my sister and Ceo put

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everything together as far as the

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schedule , events , coordinating all

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the support and all the , everything

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needed for the event . This type of

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training event , there's not a written

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apology or anything that really tells

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you what to do . I just kind of kind of

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start with the concept of what you want

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to do , what you want to evaluate what

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you want the warriors that go through

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and then basically start from scrap

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coordinating all the support , all the

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ranges and training areas and and all

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the stuff that goes along with it . You

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gotta put it together well for this

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event , most of the units within the

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command , our support , top units ,

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transportation , uh moving control such

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like that . So this is more of the army

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were tests getting back to the basics

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of soldering , you know , the land nav

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going to the range is doing . We got

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amount scenario , so Bernie , defense

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and such so more away from the mission

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but the normal basic army soldering

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tasks . Yeah the first day it was very

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physically taxing , started out with a

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pFT at 04 in the morning , went

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straight into the 16 K . Road March and

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then they did I . E . D . Lane and a

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former board in the same afternoon . So

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very physically and mentally exhausting

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and throughout it they did great .

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Everyone finished . They've had great

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attitudes , great spirits and they're

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all motivated to keep going . But we

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put the board at the end of the

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physical day to put that extra level of

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intensity on it where they're already

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exhausted , they're already hot and

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tired and now they have to go into a in

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front of a board of five CSM and answer

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questions in a in a direct fire

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environment . So it was very mentally

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exhausting . Uh they had to stay

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focused throughout the entire day .

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Didn't have time to prep directly

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before the board because they're doing

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the other events . It was is it was

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playing that way to find out who is the

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best of the best . I think this team

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came together really well . We've got

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soldiers from all over the command . We

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have six different commands being

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represented here . Um We have task

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force Sinai coming all the way from

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Egypt and then uh many units located

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here on earth john and bearing . So

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it's great to have all these different

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units working together , We get

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different perspectives , different

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experiences coming together , you know ?

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So all the soldiers get that , that

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cross training , they get the different ,

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the story swapping at night in the

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barracks and they've really come

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together to become friends honestly .

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So it's been a great experience most

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definitely . Yeah , we have a lot of

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good Ngos here and , and , and a lot of

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good future Ngos here and hopefully

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this will get them to the next step in

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their careers . I think the best word

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competition has been an overall success .

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Um , there's really been no hiccups at

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all . It's been running really smooth .

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We haven't had any major issues or

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anything . The intent was to bring

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soldiers out throughout the command ,

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uh , to test them . The best soldiers

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as selected by the units to test them

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on their abilities in their army ,

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warrior tasks , their professionalism .

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Um , and just their overall soldering

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abilities . Yes , I have seen that a

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lot of these soldiers and ngos that are

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competing in this competition have

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definitely , mm , taking the time to

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study to train to prepare themselves

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for this event . And I think that

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without competitions like this , it

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doesn't , you know , it doesn't , I

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would say forced the soldiers to be

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above and beyond what the army expects

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them to be . Yeah , well , we , the

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Nine Line medevac and uh , and the

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actual medevac coming in is something

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I've never had experience with uh ,

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actually doing a real Nine Line . So

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that was uh pretty exciting . And then

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to see that the fruits of your labor

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basically an actual helicopter come in

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and extract your casualty . That uh you

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know I thought it would be a little bit

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more tired since uh you know military

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intelligence or you don't get out out

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in the field a lot . But actually I've

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been doing all right and I feel pretty

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motivated . I guess it's just uh just a

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camaraderie and overall morale of all

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these other competitors around me is

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actually kept me pretty motivated

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definitely mentally and physically

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challenging . The first day was was uh

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we had all those physical challenges to

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include the pt test and a 10 mile ruck

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and I . D . Lane and being out in the

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quit the desert . And the heat is not

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easy . Just just standing there . So

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Day one was rough Day one was

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definitely the hardest I came into it ,

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you know , energetic and excited . And

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by the end of that ruck march I was

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exhausted . Yeah . Uh Well I've been

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to W . L . C . And this is my second

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deployment . So we've done a lot of

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training exercises with this but never

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go time for me like me running the show

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the show and you know it's been a lot

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of fun actually . It's been physically

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challenging . The first day was the PT

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Test , a 10 mile ruck and the board

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which challenges you physically

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mentally . But it was good . Now put

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that stress on you and to make sure

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that you can perform under those

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conditions . It's to make sure that you

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can still operate under battlefield

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conditions , under stressful situations

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and to make sure that you don't make

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bad decisions . Uh , prepare myself

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mentally . I knew it was going to be

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tough competition . It is tough

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competition . We have been barely

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resting in a couple hours but uh ,

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hopefully this is done . You got to get

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some rest . Well personally I run , I

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served back at home . I live right next

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to the beach but I don't do rope rock

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march . He was very tough because we

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did after the A . P . F . T . Dad 16 K

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Road tomorrow . And other than that ,

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fly back in a helicopter a couple of

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times . That was my friend experience .

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It was pretty sweet . Well we practice

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all the time line I met about but we

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never usually have that bird coming and

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picking a doing and ask for us

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realistic . Within this time . I think

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there are evaluating different

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perspective of the soldiers in this

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case it's resiliency , how good that

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can you recover from a pft and road

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march and still get ready for the next

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mission