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the three 94th Combat sustainment

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Support battalion hosted physical

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readiness enhancement training at Fort

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McCoy Wisconsin . This is the first

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time the program is run at the

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expeditionary sustainment Command level

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approximately 250 participants from the

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one oh third expeditionary sustainment

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command took part in this programme .

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The goal of the program is to help army

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reserve soldiers struggling with

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maintaining army fitness standards ,

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learn how to stay in shape on and off

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duty . Battalion commander Lieutenant

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Colonel Kelly McNeese says this is

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important for future Army missions .

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These are basic soldier skills and with

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the current environment that we're in ,

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we're drawing down from being at war

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for the last 10 years . Uh going back

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to looking at individual soldier

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readiness and unit readiness and it's

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imperative that we as an army

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ensure that our soldiers are best

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prepared for whatever comes next . The

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training consisted of daily nutrition

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classes and physical training trainers

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used army move resources and their own

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experience to teach soldiers about

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maintaining a healthy lifestyle . The

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skills that we will send home and the

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knowledge that will send home with

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these with these soldiers uh is

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knowledge that they're going to take

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back to their unit resilience training

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was also incorporated in this program ,

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The army's trend and still resiliency

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and soldiers so that they can deal with

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not only the bad things that do happen ,

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but how to bounce back from it . How

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can they can take those experiences and

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learn from them , change things that

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happened and then take care of their

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soldiers down . A registered Dietitian

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and medical staff were also readily

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available for classroom instruction and

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one on 1 care . Our goal is to educate

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the soldiers so they know why they

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should eat what they should eat to keep

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them healthy and give them energy that

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they need to complete their mission .

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Participants say the program has given

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them tools they can take back home .

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Yesterday we did a 10 minute workout

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kicked everybody's butt felt great

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afterwards . But it was short , intense

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workouts are called anaerobic workouts

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and they're more helpful over the long

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run and they carry over to help aerobic

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workouts like running the two mile for

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the PT test . Participants also said

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the trainers were very helpful .

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They're actually very cool , they're

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very nice and they don't mind talking

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to us answering questions . Uh they

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like pt they , they say they don't ,

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but they like it a confidence course

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during week to push soldiers to their

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limits acting . Command Sergeant Major

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Master Sergeant , James Holloway says

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the training went better than expected .

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We got a good set of Kadre along with

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the combination of soldiers that we

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have , everyone's pushing as you hear

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them in the background there rooting

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each other on . It's very surprising .

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We thought it was gonna be a madain

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slow uh um work at your own pace but

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actually we're starting to pick up pace

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and I wish I had them for a longer time

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reporting from Fort McCoy Wisconsin .

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I'm army sergeant and Claudio