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over here . Right to come on about this .

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I forgot today . We started our first

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inaugural monthly platoon competition

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named after a fallen pair trooper who

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was a fatality and a parachute accident

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in Georgia . So I did not know PFC Cruz

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de leon . I was not the battalion c

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assembling that had happened . But from

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what I understand what people told me

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is that he had the presence of a giant

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and was a phenomenal paratrooper in his

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organization . And the fact that people

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had approached me to make this

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competition named after him speaks

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volumes of his impact on the

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organization . Cruz was a great guy .

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He wanted to be the grey man in the

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army and his personality made that

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impossible . When we did his memorial

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down in Louisiana , I went down with a

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small group of guys and we did that . I

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was his friend . So I went down to that

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and then when we did the one here at

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the 82nd chapel , I also read a bio for

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him there . And because I was this

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close personal friend , I was

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approached and asked if I wanted to do

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it . He was great to work for and work

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with . And I'm missing

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in one piece , specifically , right .

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We're trying to get commitment over

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compliance . We want people to be

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committed , committed to the

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organization , but most importantly ,

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committed to each other for that . So

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when we do events like this that are

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endured hardship , it helps and creates

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a sense of pride with one another .

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People want to do better because they

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don't want to let someone on their left

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and right down .

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Yeah .