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he brushes you got water

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if you are giving your all into every

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event , your body will fail at some

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point . It's not if it's when your legs

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are gonna cramp you're gonna be tired

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and it's in that moment that you have

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to be mentally resilient and you have

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to be mentally sharp .

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I'm Sergeant Spencer Faillace , Winner

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of the Region seven Best Warrior

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Competition and the 2022 National Best

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Warrior Competition .

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The best warrior competition is

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holistic competition . It's way out of

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the norm for day to day life and growth .

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Growth doesn't happen in the comfort

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zone and this entire event , this

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entire competition , you are outside of

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the comfort zone , growing , it's

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really designed to bring you face to

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face with the limits you thought you

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had and then have you surpass them

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one ft in front of the other . I keep

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telling myself , just keep moving . No

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matter sometimes it hurts , sometimes

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it burns , but you can always keep

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going .

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This is something I've always wanted to

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do since I was little , I remember

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coming out to the watching the ceremony

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when I was younger and knowing that

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this is something I've always wanted to

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do after joining the guard , I knew

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that this was still something I wanted

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to do . And then when I heard that

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there might be an opportunity that the

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Air Guard was going to be able to come

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compete with the army . I wanted to do

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my due diligence and train as hard as I

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could uh be the best product for the

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Air Force .

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So the biggest difference this year

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from last year is that we've

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incorporated the gaffney , the german

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armed forces proficiency badge and that

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specifically goes over there shooting

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event , they're swimming event . Um

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It's got what's called the V . F . T .

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Which is a combination of sprinting

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china , paying 1000 m run . Uh and then

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in conjunction with that they're also

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going to be doing a ruck march as well .

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Yeah ,

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keep that stiff there , you got it too

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easy .

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Best warrior in general is going to tax

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each individual um technically and

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proficiently in not only army warrior

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tasks and metal tools , but even events

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that they haven't even experienced yet ,

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whether it's an air guardsmen or an

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army guardsmen .

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This is probably an event that I felt

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the most challenge so far . When you're

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doing this in the daytime it's got

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everything that's gonna be marked ,

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you've got the white tops easy to find .

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However in this scenario you have to

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you're gonna have a really hard time

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being able to to find a lot of these

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points .

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So I think that the best warrior helps

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myself and soldiers in general . I

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think it gets us to do the army tasks

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that often may be neglected by our

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units when we're so focused on doing

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our metal tasks and sometimes we forget

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about the army warrior tasks as a staff

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sergeant . I really think it's

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important , especially for other N . C .

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O . S . To compete in this event and

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get additional training into practice

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meet other N . C . O . S from other

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MSC's . Additionally , now I can go

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back to my unit and if we ever

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have these events that do seldomly come

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up , I'll no longer be a staff

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sergeant that isn't sure of what

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they're doing . I'll now have

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confidence and be able to train other

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soldiers and other N . C . O . S . How

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to perform these tasks . And we're not

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just training the soldiers just to

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train them or for them to experience

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the specific lane , like the medical

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lane or mystery event . We want them to

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get something out of that . Uh , and

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then to be able to take that training

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and incorporate it into their units .

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That's really where the rubber hits the

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road and that's where we get the most

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mileage out of this . When soldiers

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actually can internalize what it is

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that they're doing and then taking them

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out to their units . That's priceless .

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Regardless of the end result . It's not

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about winning the competition , it's

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about growing as a person challenging

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yourself , making those around you

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better . This competition

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breeds excellence .