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- To answer your question,
our progressive mood,

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meaning our NCO have been
validated as somebody.

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I go to all the schools,
the business schools,

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except for advanced schools.

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We've been opportune to
have one of our senior NCOs,

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a level of Sergeant
Major, who just graduated

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from the Sergeant Major Academy in the US,

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we're happy about that.

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We wish on your visits,
we wish on your visits,

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more Senior NCOs at
level of Sergeant Major,

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to go to that academy globally.

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Originally, our partners can
also help to educate our NCOs

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by go to some other Sergeant Major schools

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in the regional country.

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So, for the NCO progression,
it's in high spirit.

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Our NCOs are in a decision-making process.

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Our NCOs have been
empowered to go to school,

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advanced schools.

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Our NCOs have been quite partial

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of the chain of command structure,

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and making tons of
decisions, and they have

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been supported by officers.

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Where 2006, that was the
formulation of the new army,

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and we went IT, AIT, and BNAP.

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Right from BNAP, the
NCO Corps was effective,

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so when they graduated,
they became Sergeants.

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When they graduated, they got
involved in the NCO Corps,

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and so from 2006, up to 2007,
up to 2008, we have series

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of NCOs based sometimes in Greece,

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and obtained a reference for promotion.

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Well, like I've made mention
about the NCO Academy,

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well, one graduate was very interested

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to go to school in the
US, infantry school,

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a Drill Sergeant Instructor
from the Academy AFC,

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the opportunity to go to United States,

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and have an education in
Drill Sergeant courses,

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like in supply, I was opportune
to go to United States

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to do a supply course
and quartermaster course

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in Fort Lee, Virginia in 2009.

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And beyond that, we have some of our NCOs

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who are going to US to
have advanced courses.

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At the original level, we have
Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria,

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and in all of our countries,
at the original level

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is assisting the NCO Corps in
how we carry our progression.

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I want to say to our
partners in the United States

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to keep shining their eyes on the AFL

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to make sure the NCO Corps
in the progressive stage,

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but we are taking the NCO
Corps from where it came from,

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where it is now, and
where it will be going.

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So, it's in progression to another level.

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So, want the United States to assist us

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as our major partners,
to make sure we have

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a global NCO Corps that we
wish to envision for long term,

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as the Army's in a progressive stage,

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as we have been on the force for good,

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we want to return our status in the eye

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of the International
Committee, in our partners.