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- Out here, we're helping out with the active duty

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^and national guard, working with them,

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^getting their units the leadership requirement

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for BLC, for their young leaders.

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- [Narrator] The Basic Leadership Course

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is not only a requirement to get promoted to sergeant,

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it is essentially a rite of passage to becoming

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a non-commissioned officer.

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For soldiers deployed to Kosovo,

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this course had to come to them.

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Five NCOs from the 7th Army NCO Academy in Germany

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came to Camp Bondsteel to teach the army's future NCOs.

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Generally, active duty and the national guard

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conduct this class separately.

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Because of the nature of this deployment,

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the components are mixing more than usual.

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^- It's unique because you get to hear

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^a lot of their experiences because they're still working

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^and living a civilian life.

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It's not every day I get to work with them

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back at Fort Campbell.

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- [Narrator] Whether the future NCO is active duty

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or national guard, these BLC instructors have honed

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their skills at teaching young soldiers

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and getting the information across.

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- I've learned a lot from them

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and they're very knowledgeable.

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^They have a great attitude, they motivate us

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^and they've been really helpful throughout the course.

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- [Narrator] Reporting from Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo,

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I'm Sergeant Bill Washburn.