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- [Woman] Not bad for a pastry chef.

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- Hi, I'm Sergeant First Class Boggs,

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and I'm competing in the Joint
Culinary Training Exercise.

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I think for the last four years,

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I've wanted to do Chef of the Year,

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but I've actually kind of ran from it,

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because I'm primary pastry,

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and I know it entails a lot of work.

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So I think today really challenged me

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to think outside the box
and do something different.

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- Hello, my name is Sergeant
First Class Andre Ward

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and I am one of the hosts

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for the Joint Culinary Training Exercise.

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The Chef of the Year is any
mystery box is a challenge,

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because you have no
idea what you're taking.

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And again, that's a good reason why

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you should know basic
skills: how to make sauces,

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how to fry the geese

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you know, how to actually
cook a vegetable properly,

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or how to actually cook a
grain or a starch properly.

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A sear is a sear.

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Boiling is boiling, you
know, braising is braising.

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These are all things that
we teach a military chef.

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Hi, I'm Sergeant First Class Arana

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and I'm the team manager for Team OA .

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The preparation for the Chef
of the Year Competition,

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we all know it's a mystery basket,

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so it's a process of sitting
down and looking at protein,

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and understanding what
you're gonna be asked to do

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within the time limit that's given.

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It is a good environment to train

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and the people that you compete with

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you gotta make small,
you'll meet them again.

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- [SFC Boggs] Training up to
this event, I did very well,

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just kind of going back,
familiarizing certain items

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with others that I came in contact

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with during our practice runs.

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Looking back where we started
and where we were today,

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the judges said we
communicated excellently,

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that was something that stood out to him,

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and we met our time and everything

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went out hot and looked nice.

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So, you know, I think we did very well

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and that we teamed well together.

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- [SFC Ward] Things that they can get

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is they get some highly
trained chefs back,

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they've gone through it, motivated chefs.

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You get to you know, be noticed as

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okay, my chefs in my
unit are hard to beat.

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- With some of the young
PFCs that go compete,

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they come back and they won a medal,

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they won a category, that could change

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that soldier's perspective.

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(cheering)

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- Hi, I'm PFC Lewis, I won a gold medal

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in Student Chef of the Year category.

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We worked hard, and I finally see

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that hard work pays off.

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I thought I wasn't going
to make it this far,

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I didn't even know I was gonna
make the team before I come,

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so just believe in
yourself and you can do it.

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- [SFC Boggs] So a lot of
competitors that we get,

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especially this year, are very bright

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and this is the first time
that they'll see this stuff.

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So, they're gonna be excited when they go

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back to the officers,

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they're gonna want to
take what they do here

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back to the officers, look what I can do.

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- [SFC Arana] For the younger soldiers

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it's an eye-opening experience,

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because it shows them that
there's more to the MOS

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than what we're trained to do.

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- There's so much that I get to take back,

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and like just do for,
I can cook for my mom

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'cause there's nobody like, I just learned

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so much over this six
months, it's like, amazing.

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- [Announcer] PCF Lewis
receives a gold medal.

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(crowd cheers)