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As an overseas based honor guard , we

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support mainly retirement ceremonies

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and change of command ceremonies . Um

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Us being here in Western Germany , we

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do support a lot of World War Two

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memorial services , which is pretty

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cool whenever we get our recruits

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suited and booted . Um And additionally ,

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sometimes with uh the retirees that opt

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to stay here overseas after they retire ,

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we do support their payroll services

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just like anything . Like when you

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first learn , learning it , it's pretty ,

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pretty difficult . It always starts off

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pretty rough and we're throwing a lot

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of new drills , a lot of new moves ,

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you know , they're handling rifles that

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they haven't been before . So , um it's

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a lot of information that they're , you

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know , absorbing in this week . So it

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is a little . So there's a bit of a

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learning curve but eventually they get ,

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there are here to do a job and that is

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to present with honor and to be

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ceremonious . So always be precise ,

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try to be perfect but forgive yourself

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if you're not . It's important that

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during practice , we are , we maintain

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our barrier . We are constantly

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practicing . Hey , what do you do if

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this happens those things are addressed

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in practice . So that way when the real

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thing occurs , we know how to react and

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respond . Teamwork is important .

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Teamwork is important on our guard uh

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like with any detail , right ? Like we

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can't do anything without each other .

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Like we can't just do a one man detail .

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We have to have , you know , a crew of

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people , right ? So when it comes to

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instilling that in practice , I think

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we foster it here by uh just getting to

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know each other and uh just including

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one another and everything that we do .

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The application process is we have a

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honor guard application . You would

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route it up through your leadership all

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the way to your commander . Once it has

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been signed , you turn it back in , you

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complete the one week , training week

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with us here at honor guard . And then

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once you've completed that you're part

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of the team .