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as a third corps Commander and

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commander for here . This is a

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regretful moment . Uh standing in the

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headquarters in Iraq saying goodbye to

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Colonel Bill Perry Warfighter .

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Uh absolutely . Uh

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superb quality for over three

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years . His command of the Garrison

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probably one of the most uh

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underappreciated hardest jobs that I

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know of in the army . It's a job that

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takes care of soldiers and in many

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cases takes care of soldiers . More

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importantly and more directly than

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almost any command position , the

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United States Army for those three

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years . Bill Perry has done it

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absolutely superbly . He's taken care

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of over 40,000 soldiers at Fort Hood

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alone , double that number independence .

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And probably for every soldier at Fort

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Hood , there's three retirees that

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depend on Bills effort to keep the

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garrison running and keeping it hitting

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on all cylinders which he does day in

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and day out . Uh There is

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uh no way and certainly my lack of the

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ability of the in english language to

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articulate the thanks that previous

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commanders and I have for the

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tremendous work that Bill Perry has

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done for our community . He covers such

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a broad spectrum . One minute he's uh

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trying to keep the school board

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together . The next minute he's working

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with uh committees with retirees . The

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next minute he's wrestling a brigade

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commander over over billets and then he

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turns and does something that the M . W .

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R . Keep safeties in line plans , new

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hospitals and gets budgets ready and

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puts up with T . J . Mills . I mean

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what more can you ask for out of a

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soldier than we asked about a Bill ?

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Perry Bill ?

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Well done . Thank you .