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my name is Sergeant Adam Crown Land and

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I'm part of dagger Troop , which is in

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the 1/40 cavalry , I'm part of the

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signals and electronic warfare platoon

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and I'm a team leader . Uh and my job

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is as a cryptologic linguist , which is

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a 35 ft pla , I'd say that

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my squad is essential to my success

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honestly . Um for a variety of reasons .

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First of all , just plain support my

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squad or the number one cheerleaders in

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my court , they're always out there

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pushing me , telling me I can do better

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there . They're , yeah , they're just

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not afraid to respectfully disagree and

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to raise better ideas and I think , mhm

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you know , I don't know , trying to be

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empathetic as a squad leader has helped

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me learn a lot , trying to see through

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other people's eyes . And it's given me

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a lot of diversity um and a lot of

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different approaches to problems that I

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hadn't considered before . I've been in

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a position of leadership . And I think

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because of that , I've become a much

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more well rounded person . It's really

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easy to become like a biopic in a ,

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when we think about our soldiers and

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what it means for them to be successful .

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You know , like , well , are they doing

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the tasks ? What's there , Petey , you

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know ? And what I found is that when

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you kind of take a step back and see

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yourself not just as a hardness leader ,

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which sometimes you need to be , but

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also as these other parts of your ,

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their support and focusing on there

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experiences and maybe what they might

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be missing , it becomes a lot easier to ,

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to find solutions to help them um , and

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to ultimately make them better human

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beings because ultimately , like while

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soldiers are the number one thing that

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we are , we are also more than that ,

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you know , and I think it's easy to

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lose sight of that in the army , but we

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are more than just soldiers , you know ,

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where people , you know , we're dads

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were friends . Yeah ,

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diversity is one of the key attributes

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of a good squad . And the reason is

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because there isn't just one dynamic

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that makes a high performing squad just

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like there's many different types of

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leaderships . I think there's many

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different sort of relationships that

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can ultimately be successful . But I

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think the key to that success is

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understanding that everyone is

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different and everyone has different

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strengths and utilizing that rather

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than trying to make everyone fit a

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certain mold of success . Uh , an idea

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of what , you know , the perfect

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soldiers should be understanding that

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everyone comes at it from different

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angles and understanding those angles

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and then utilizing them . And I think

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if you , if you start there , if you

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start with diversity , um and that

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empathy , then you build up to trust

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and to competence and support and

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all the different things that end up

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consuming together to make a squad

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that ultimately kicks mhm

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mhm mm