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- The recipient of the Iron Solider Award

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for Class of 19-009

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is Sargent First Class Kimberly Fox.

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- I just really want to
thank our instructors

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because they put forth a lot of effort

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to One make sure we enjoy the course,

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but also to bring excitement
(crowd applauds)

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to boring common topics.

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It's really hard to
teach a course like this

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day-in and day-out,

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teaching the same thing
over and over again,

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and so the fact that they
came to class excited

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really made those classes
a lot more enjoyable,

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and made the time go by a lot more quickly

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because I've been in an
instructor position before,

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and it is hard,

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and bringing that excitement
to class everyday,

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it's not a skill everybody can do.

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It's a lot of assignments
due all around the same time,

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and each one of the assignments,

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because you're working off of a rubric,

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and trying to make sure
it's exactly right,

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takes a lot longer than
it would normally take you

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to prepare, you know, an NCOAR,
or a counseling statement,

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or an NCODB course,

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because you want to
make sure it's perfect,

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so that part takes a lot longer

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than what you would normally
think it would take.

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Work on your ability to research,

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I'd say for a lot of people,

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the paper is probably the hardest part,

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especially if you haven't
done research papers before,

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so that's probably the hardest part.

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A lot of the stuff is all do-able,

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it's just a lot of stuff all at once,

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so if you take it piece by piece,

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and don't let yourself get behind,

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then it's not terrible.

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I think the biggest thing is learning

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to work with others that are around you,

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because I think a lot of times,

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especially as we grow as leaders,

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we tend to really only rely on ourselves,

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and we kind of forget that, you know,

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we're here working as a team, you know.

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Most people join the Army

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because they like that team aspect,

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and I think we sometimes forget

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that there's others around
us that can help us,

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and you know, really all working

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to make the Army a better place,

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not just, you know,
doing it all on our own.