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Okay . Uh , so my name is ERic

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Rodriguez . It's ERic E R . I C .

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Rodriguez , R O D R I G U E Z .

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Um , so I'm staff sergeant Rodriguez .

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Eric , I'm with recruiting and

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retention in texas region 3 10 K and I

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am originally from Austin texas , I

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think I , I think I did it right . Um ,

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I think I did enough to be top three I

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think , but you know , we'll see . I

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don't , I don't know the total scores

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and there's some events that we know

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how each other did , but there's

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something we don't know . So , um ,

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yeah , you know , I would say the , the

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warrior lanes and the shooting . Um ,

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just for me being in recruiting and

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that's not something that we get to

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actively do , don't , don't get to

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shoot often and don't really get ,

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we're not able to get our hands on the

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equipment to practice that stuff so

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it's more so I had to do my own

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research and study , but I like , I'm a

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hands on person , so that would have

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been better for me . Uh , definitely

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the physical stuff . So the A . C . F .

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T . I did pretty good today . Safety in

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the obstacle course , I'd say those are

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my two favorite ones . Uh , no , this

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is , I mean , this is my first year

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doing it . We , we did state about a

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week ago , but , but yeah , this is my

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first year actually doing best work .

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Yeah , So I'm a little tired . Yeah .

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Uh , no , I think I definitely did .

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I'm a little bit on the older side

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compared to all the other competitors .

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so kinda for me this is my last little

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hoorah before , just just relaxing for

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a little bit but so it was uh it was a

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good experience just because I've never

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been able to do it and I've always

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wanted to . Um So so I'm I'm glad I did

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it a bit of both , definitely get the

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experience to say I've done it and then

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um and then you just see how I can

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compete against the other guys . Um I

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would say overall this one was a little

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bit more challenging , just the days

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were long and so it wears down on you

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for sure . Um And then r r ruck march

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on the state level wasn't quite as long

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just because of time , So I haven't

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done a $12 in a while so that that woke

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me up a little bit , you know . Oh it's

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awesome , you know I'm it's we're very

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fortunate to have that type of support

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from our leadership um families as well .

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My wife is home with the kids doing

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their thing and that's that's her

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supporting me . Um It's also a lot of

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pressure because you know you don't

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want to disappoint them , you want to

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do your best and and score well so um I

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guess I just continue training , that's

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really it continued training and for

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the next level . Um I definitely said I

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didn't get as much time as I would like

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to uh to study to prepare for the more

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mental stuff and just a little bit more

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recovery would have been nice um and

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and actually focusing my my physical

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training for like these events , I

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still feel I did well on the physical

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stuff , but I felt it could have been a

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little better . Uh Yeah , absolutely ,

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I mean whenever you , you have like

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ranger sapper tab or something like

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that , people always expect you to be

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to be better than the rest , so it's a

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lot of pressure at the same time , but

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you know , we're still human beings .

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Um I mean being , I've done ranger

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school a long time ago , not , not

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really , but but I guess just the

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mentality it's given me yet . Yeah ,

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sure it helped me . Um I don't know it

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helps because I know he's gone through

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a course that you you have to prove

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yourself and show that you know , you

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can you can survive the basically . Uh

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and and special johnson , he's a great

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competitor , he's definitely pushed

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himself and done some good things . Um

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I've heard in the past for our state

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that had like combative , that would've

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been pretty cool to just roll around

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with our competitors are like pupil

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sticks , that would actually be pretty

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cool . So yeah , um I think it's a it's

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a confidence builder , definitely ,

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it's gonna show your weaknesses and

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also your strength so you can know what

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you need to work on and know what you

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need to know what your what your

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strengths are in . Um And it's just I

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mean like like I said in that little

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miked up it's it's good for your resume .

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You do it and you show hey I did this ,

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I went out there , I put myself out on

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the line , people watching me and I did

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my thing you know Um those those

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hills that ruck march are pretty pretty

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rough and and I hit a wall like right

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around 10 miles and I had to really

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like dig deep to just keep keep

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trucking along . It was it was the

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slowest mile mile of my the whole 12

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miles . But you know I just kept moving

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on and it took a lot of mental strength

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for me to just keep going just because

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I don't I don't do that kind of stuff

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anymore . So um absolutely the the

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hills that they had in the ruck march I

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think for all of us were very

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challenging . Uh It motivated me a lot .

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Um Mass start weighing my N . C . I . C .

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And and start start major johnson .

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They came running down and that kind of

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motive me to to finish that last

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straightaway and keep running otherwise

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I'd have probably just been trotting

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along going slow . Um I mean you pretty

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much you hit it like I'm I'm proud to

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have been here and done this . I'm very

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fortunate for the support my state has

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given me . Um I've always known about

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the best warrior , but I did not know

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it was this big of a deal . You know ,

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I didn't know like so many people were

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for it . So it's pretty cool . It gives

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us a chance to meet other other states

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that we don't know exist . And , and

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just , uh , they had , they had the

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mingle thing in the beginning when we

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went to the museum . So that was really

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cool . And all these competitors have

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been great . They have , nobody's been

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negative . So it's been a good

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experience .