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It's not about getting a badge . It's

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to have an expert soldier in your field

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regardless of what your M Os is . The

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first day of testing started with the

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expert physical fitness assessment and

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that consisted of a one mile run and 30

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push ups 100 m sprint . 16 sandbag

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lifts onto a 5.5 ft platform . 25 m

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water can carry and then a 50 m

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individual movement technique . So high

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crawl and then 35 2nd rush and then it

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finished off with another one mile run

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all day of physical assessment , day ,

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land , nav , night land , nav four

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hours of sleep . Now you go to one day ,

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weapons , one day patrolling and one

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day of medical and there's very little

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room for air , which also causes a lot

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of stress . The hardest part of the eib

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is definitely physical weight of the

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fear of failure . The

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assembly upwards the two week train up

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for me was a lot of reps getting hands

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on and studying to ensure that I was

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ready to treat my casualties . When the

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time came , lots of tedious

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memorization and attention to detail .

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It was hard work that paid off . So I'm

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pretty excited about it .

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Do you know you're asking battle drills

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at a level , you know , to be an expert ?

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And I think the goal is that , you know ,

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when you look across and look at your

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leaders and look at your first

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battalion system , they have one of

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those three badges . I am Captain Kara

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Adams . I am Lieutenant Colonel Bingham .

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I am sergeant first class Morgan Hicks .

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I am a specialist Holton . I'm a big

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red one soldier and I'm a big red one

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soldier . Then I earned my expert field

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medical badge and I earned my expert

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field medical badge and I earned my

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expert soldier badge and I earned my

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extra infantrymen badge .