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(Trumpets playing)

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- [Narrator] Military
traditions were on full display

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to welcome US Army Central's new

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Command Sgt. Major, Brian A. Hester,

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September 17, 2019 at Shaw Air
Force Base, South Carolina.

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The Assumption of Responsibility
ceremony is infused

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with military traditions
and serves as a function

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of rendering honors to the
incoming Command Sgt. Major

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and providing official
recognition of the transfer

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of authority from the commanding general

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to the senior non-commissioned officer

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of the United States Army Central.

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Lieutenant General Terry
Ferrel, commanding general,

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United States Army Central welcomes

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Command Sgt. Major Bryan A. Hester.

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- [LT. General Ferrel] From 2nd Lieutenant

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all the way up to Lt. General,

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I can tell you the platoon
sergeants, the first sergeants,

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the sergeant majors, the
command sergeant majors

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that impacted my life.

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I can tell you that I would
not be here alive today,

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and I mean that,

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if it wasn't for a command sergeant major.

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- [Narrator] Command Sgt.
Major Hester has over 29 years

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of experience to bring
to his new position,

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which includes three
tours in Iraq, two tours

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in Afghanistan, and Kosovo 17.

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- [Command Sgt. Major Hester]
Really tell you how humbled

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I am to be here.

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This is really an opportunity
when you're a young soldier,

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you don't think you're
gonna have an opportunity

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to do something like this,

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and it's because of the people
around us each and every day.

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We can't do this alone.

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This is a team sport.

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- [Narrator] Command Sgt.
Major Hester will assume

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responsibility in the United States

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and SITCOM areas of responsibility

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as they continue to engage in the fight

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with a force of more than
23,000 soldiers and civilians.

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(trumpets playing)

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- [Narrator] Reporting
from US Army Central,

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I am Sgt. First Class Taisha Lockheart.