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- [Narrator] Marksmanship and PT test.

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- [Solider] 30 seconds!

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- [Narrator] And an obstacle course.

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- [Solider] There you go.

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- [Narrator] These are a few examples

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of the events taking place

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(gun clicks)

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at the 2018 Army National
Guard Best Warrior Competition

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held at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania.

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- There's a lot of physical training,

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getting my body ready and
prepared because I knew

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how strenuous the events would be,

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they didn't really give us too
much of what the events are,

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but prepare for a PT
test, you want to prepare

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for an appearance board,
you want to prepare

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for a written test, so a lot of studying,

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going over warrior tasks and battle drills

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and just basically anything that I thought

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might be thrown at me, I
just tried to brush up on it.

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So it's a lot of me
improving my solider skills

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that I had before.

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- [Group] The soldier's creed.

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- [Narrator] From
throughout the Army Guard,

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14 citizen soldiers
competed against one another

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to determine who was the best
during three grueling days.

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- [Announcer] Specialist:
Gerald Hilamont, Maryland.

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Army National Guard.

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- [Narrator] Coming out on
top for soldier of the year

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was specialist Daly
Rough of the South Dakota

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Army National Guard.

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And for NCO of the year
was Sergeant Jody Grewer

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of the Kentucky Army National Guard.

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(audience claps)

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- These winners will
move on to the All Army

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Best Warrior Competition later this year.

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Reporting for National
Guard Bureau Public Affairs,

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I'm air force technical sergeant,

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- It's an honor to win this thing,

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and that makes everything worth it.

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- [Narrator] Steven Schwa.