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So I'm an officer cadet at the Royal

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Military Academy , Sanders finished O

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CS with Mr Kreitz . Um And then we were

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selected to go to England to do a year

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of training , put together a packet ,

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went before board presented a lot of

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our scores from O CS . They selected

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two of us to come here to Sandhurst to

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train with the British military . So

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today we were doing some live fire . So

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we were doing a live fire platoon

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attack . I was acting as the platoon

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commander . So we were ended up

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assaulting through three positions and

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then did a fighting withdrawal . I got

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to assault the first position and clear

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it with a grenade and bayonet , which

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was pretty cool . We don't do a lot of

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bayonet in the US . So the Brits love

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it . The officer cadets are really

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versatile and good at multitasking and

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good at working outside of their

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comfort areas . You shared every meal

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together and been out in the field ,

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been in the mountains of Wales together .

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Um So we , we formed some pretty tight

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connections . There are some , some

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absolute characters . It's been

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fantastic . I think making

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international connections is , is

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amazing . And I've learned a lot so

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excited to take back some of the , some

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of the lessons I've learned , uh ,

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being in the UK back to America . And I

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hope I've , I've left , uh , somewhat

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of an inference of , of America here .