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- Sorry, Ashley Fuhlman,

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A-S-H-L-E-Y F-U-H-L-M-A-N.

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- [Interviewer] What is your hometown?

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- I'm from Schofield... Honolulu, Hawaii.

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My MOS is 52 Alpha, Human
Resource Specialist.

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My Unit is 322 Civil Affairs Brigade.

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If there was a female soldier

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who asked me how this competition went,

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I would tell her to take
the challenge, do it.

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Don't let the males defeat
you and just go for it.

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I would tell them it's definitely worth it

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and overall it looks well,

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it looks good for you to
do something like this.

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It shows that you're willing
to compete and get better.

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I was just recently promoted

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and it was stated in the operator

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if you are promoted within
a certain amount of time

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before the competition, then
you'll continue to compete

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in the Junior Enlisted.

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I did not consider turning
down the promotion,

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I was ready to be promoted already so.

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The surprising part of this
competition so far would be,

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probably, the physical portion.

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They definitely, you
know, I'm taking it easy

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so we have to really adapt
to overcoming all of this

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and so far we all have been
doing very well with that.

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I think my biggest challenge,
we actually did today,

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which was the ruck march.

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That's probably my weakest point

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and I'm glad to have completed it already.

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The thoughts of my ruck
march, some felt easy,

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it was dark, it was...

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it was long.

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But I mean the rope march was really...

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We didn't have time,

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or I wasn't really looking up
at the time and the distance.

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We didn't know how far, how close we were,

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but we just kept pushing and then...

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it was very challenging, very tough.

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I would be very proud to represent

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as the lower enlisted in the Army,

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the big Army competition,

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the Best Warrior Competition.

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That would be an amazing opportunity

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and if the chance does happen,

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then I would definitely
train extra hard everyday

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and do my very best to represent.

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I felt it was all in vain going
to school for kinesiology.

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- [Interviewer] Kinesiology.

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- And then I do part-time
housekeeping in Hawaii.

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I was ready to move from my hometown,

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it was very small so.

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- [Interviewer] Which hometown?

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- My hometown is McGregor, Texas.

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I've been in Hawaii for
two and a half years now.

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I got here on Saturday,
the 22nd I believe.

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I had like a seven hour
layover in LA, yeah.

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Recently, I'm determined
I'm gonna finish it.

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I came here to do my best

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and even if I don't win,

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I want to say I finished
it and I completed

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this competition and
physically, I'm drained.

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But I'm pushing through,
I'm still a little...

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I took a hard fall earlier
doing the obstacle.

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So I'm still recovering from that,

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but I'm pushing through.

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I actually learned about

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Best Warrior earlier this year,

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like I didn't know much about it

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and when the opportunity came,

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I just graduated BLC

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and they sent me to the isles in Honolulu.

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And... after going there,

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that's when I learned
what it's really about

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and I learned there's a lot to it.

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There's a lot of physical portions.

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You gotta study, you
have to know everything,

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only regulations, you
have to know your stuff.

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You can't just come here
and expect to do well

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unless you study and train for it.

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But yes.

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- [Interviewer] The PT in Hawaii.