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We're doing , we're letting them take

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their f yeah , we're moving

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on the security squad leader . We make

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sure no one links us and we , we keep

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eyes on the objective to radio back to

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the pl if there's any situation that

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changes , we love about security , but

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it's not just security . We're making

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sure nothing changes on the objective .

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So if the enemy does , we know around

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us before we even get on . So today ,

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we're in Panther phase of our FTX and

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we're doing an attack in a hasty

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defense . It's a field training

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exercise . And what that means is you

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put a bunch of people , mostly a

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platoon size element which is around

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3540 people in the woods and they're

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gonna be running lanes and these lanes

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are anything from an attack on the

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enemy , defending yourself from the

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enemy in a raid . So for Panther , it's

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kind of the middle step between the

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first phase and the last phase you're

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left to your own and your platoon has

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to kind of crawl their way through and

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figure out what they're doing within

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Virginia Tech . There's the Corps of

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Cadets and there's Army ROTC . So just

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in the spring , I held the leadership

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position for the core and that helps me

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a lot . And I was just given the

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opportunity to be army Battalion XO .

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Next semester , we have maybe four days

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of this throughout the school year . So

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now we get 35 days of it . Boots to the

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ground , understanding army . And when

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you're really immersed in it , that's

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when you can fully understand what army

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is , what other people are doing , what

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you're asking people to do . You can't

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ask something of somebody if you

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haven't done it yourself .