WEBVTT 00:12.650 --> 00:16.590 Hello and welcome to the first theater sustainment command Blackjack expressed. 00:16.720 --> 00:18.540 I'm specialist kelsey jumpers. 00:19.060 --> 00:22.140 Coming up on this edition did you know there centers beginning 00:22.140 --> 00:25.340 in nineteen how seven one of america's most iconic new year's 00:25.340 --> 00:28.820 traditions as a dropping of a giant ball in new york city times 00:28.820 --> 00:30.300 square at the stroke of midnight. 00:31.140 --> 00:34.320 Also coming your way learning up three soldiers from the army 00:34.320 --> 00:37.640 reserve unit the pre-sixteens expeditionary sustainment command 00:37.960 --> 00:40.720 helped insure over twenty thousand pounds of mail made it to 00:40.720 --> 00:42.410 troops during this holiday season. 00:43.040 --> 00:46.400 But first to help ensure troops have the tools and skills they 00:46.400 --> 00:50.020 need to be prepared for every mission the first esc are pretty 00:50.020 --> 00:52.990 training opportunity that allowed soldiers to learn how to save 00:52.990 --> 00:56.920 lives and help about buddies specialist james bone junior has 00:56.920 --> 00:58.140 more on this story. 00:59.760 --> 01:02.840 Junior soldiers of the first theater sustainment command had 01:02.840 --> 01:06.630 an opportunity to gain a new skillset during a weeklong class 01:06.630 --> 01:08.810 where they learned how to be a combat life saver. 01:09.360 --> 01:12.870 Their hands on seeles training consist of the several procedures 01:12.870 --> 01:15.390 which top the troops have a stable life on the battle. 01:16.360 --> 01:20.500 Of so as the over and learning with the late addressing the fifth 01:20.500 --> 01:21.910 bandages stressing. 01:22.870 --> 01:26.910 Of Colin different met of that like now I'm ever. 01:28.280 --> 01:29.210 Terrace. Its. 01:31.500 --> 01:34.260 Out of business and soldiers have to the chasm. To. 01:37.000 --> 01:40.690 The riders seeles training prepared. The soldiers to react quickly 01:40.690 --> 01:44.540 in response to casualty increasing the overall readiness of not 01:44.540 --> 01:47.860 only the individual soldiers but the first tier see as well. 01:48.720 --> 01:51.280 Was promoted to buy medical personnel have a stable like. 01:51.810 --> 01:54.530 And it you know do you never know what's going to happen when 01:54.530 --> 01:56.940 you down ranges those who with the way the about build a set 01:56.940 --> 01:57.300 up now. 01:57.850 --> 02:02.110 You to be at the fob to an up that and all the side and An idea 02:02.110 --> 02:06.290 goes awful rocket comes then and that's orders combat. Why saver 02:06.610 --> 02:09.150 qualified is out there are doing the same thing that minutes 02:09.150 --> 02:13.660 of the Doing this course basin soldier skills will reinforce 02:13.820 --> 02:17.960 giving the troops the skills needed to become an asset in a deployment firemen. 02:18.500 --> 02:21.870 And also preparing them to be able to save about all bodies life 02:21.870 --> 02:22.990 on a moment's notice. 02:23.730 --> 02:26.500 Reporting for the first theater sustainment command from Fort 02:26.500 --> 02:29.840 bragg north carolina. I'm specials changed on june. 02:32.160 --> 02:34.750 More information about how you can role in the first theater 02:34.750 --> 02:38.210 sustain a commands combat life. Saver class place kind tech to 02:38.210 --> 02:41.860 schools nco our staff sergeant leona flying at the on and that 02:41.890 --> 02:45.080 and that flying that male Agtmael that male. 02:46.120 --> 02:48.520 Know is a people around the world. What's the dropping of the 02:48.520 --> 02:51.810 ball the new york times square which is taken place almost every 02:51.810 --> 02:53.260 year since nineteen. Oh seven. 02:53.950 --> 02:57.490 Overtime the ball itself has evolved from the seven hundred pound 02:57.520 --> 03:01.030 iron and wood or to a brightly patterned sphere twelve feet in 03:01.030 --> 03:04.060 diameter and weighing in at nearly twelve thousand pounds. 03:04.690 --> 03:07.740 To make this little tradition their own based towns and cities 03:07.740 --> 03:11.050 across america have developed their own versions of the times 03:11.050 --> 03:14.590 square ritual organizing public drops a guidance ranging from 03:14.590 --> 03:17.350 pickles to pasa hms at midnight and new year's eve. 03:17.870 --> 03:21.180 Some participants will dress up in silly outfits and we're calm 03:21.180 --> 03:25.350 cool hats drink champagne and use traditional Iran's call noise 03:25.350 --> 03:29.160 makers to express their joy and hope for the new your head I 03:29.160 --> 03:32.160 their traditions of the season include the making of new year's 03:32.160 --> 03:36.300 resolutions that tradition dates back as far as the early babylonian 03:36.300 --> 03:40.130 ds popular modern resolutions my include the promise to lose 03:40.130 --> 03:43.020 weight or quit smoking as the first theater sustain a command 03:43.020 --> 03:46.150 looks forte new year. They would like to wish everyone a happy 03:46.150 --> 03:49.350 holiday and remind everyone to sign up the new year was safety 03:49.350 --> 03:51.080 first first team. 03:52.260 --> 03:55.380 Been deployed in remote areas didn't stop soldiers from receiving 03:55.380 --> 03:58.470 mail this holiday season thanks to the hard work and efforts 03:58.470 --> 04:01.310 and the three sixteenth expeditionary sustainment command. 04:01.690 --> 04:05.580 They insured that a little bit of holiday cheer was delivered sergeant. 04:05.580 --> 04:08.170 First class adam stung has a more on this. Story. 04:11.000 --> 04:15.040 The army reserve soldiers and the three sixty expeditionary sustainment command. 04:15.530 --> 04:17.460 I making sure that no matter how remote. 04:18.000 --> 04:21.480 Are held the the location. Soldiers are going to receive their 04:21.480 --> 04:23.100 mail before christmas. 04:24.630 --> 04:26.250 Since opening around makes you think. 04:26.780 --> 04:29.780 Your the post office ever seen more than twenty four thousand 04:29.970 --> 04:34.400 pounds of years are starting what they council says that christmas 04:34.440 --> 04:38.320 is that busy time of year a navy viewed around and one harvesting 04:38.320 --> 04:42.010 right up to believe given using that male by uses almost like 04:42.010 --> 04:46.060 double because founders or or in of us in dollars mites is they 04:46.060 --> 04:48.580 can to the soldiers they fear of my family recent. 04:49.500 --> 04:53.680 Them backers all specialist jimmy Bennett tells us that male 04:53.680 --> 04:57.800 day is the big deal with everybody on account. No with Mayo they 04:57.800 --> 05:01.660 use they noted their families may S give us but of an egg in 05:01.660 --> 05:05.120 their it than at the best before reporting from southwest asia. 05:05.530 --> 05:09.890 I'm sergeant first class atoms it in the precincts think esc 05:09.890 --> 05:13.140 as from corps apoel of Pennsylvania and is currently deployed 05:13.140 --> 05:16.920 to Kuwait and support of operation enduring freedom. It expects 05:16.920 --> 05:20.320 return home within the first few months of two thousand and thirteen. 05:21.160 --> 05:24.810 Well this all the time. We have for now things for watching state 05:24.810 --> 05:28.360 on the latest news by logging on track facebook page keywords 05:28.360 --> 05:29.850 first theater sustainment command. 05:30.500 --> 05:31.340 See the next time. 05:32.000 --> 05:32.660 First team. 05:33.530 --> 05:33.940 Not that..