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Occupational therapy is very often kind

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of niched into a reactive care setting

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and with H2F you get to be more

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preventative and engaged in actually

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helping soldiers get better and do

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better rather than just recover from an

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injury or illness . I've been able to

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incorporate a lot of kind of my

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occupational therapy knowledge and my

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recreational shooting knowledge to

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create the mindful marksmanship class .

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It was an opportunity to kind of help

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soldiers improve marksmanship through

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mindfulness . Um , also having an

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occupational therapy background and ,

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uh , being a shooter and a former

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soldier , uh , I was seeing some

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consistent issues at the range , uh ,

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soldiers that were struggling to

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qualify might be positioning , might be

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how they're handling the weapon , uh ,

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might be the way they're talking to

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themselves and about marksmanship and

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how they're performing . So I put

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together a class on how to make their

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body movements the most efficient , how

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to make their positioning the most

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efficient , and kind of getting ahead

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of that that negative self talk . Ended

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up being the Achilles heel for a lot of

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the soldiers that were struggling was

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just the way they were talking to

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themselves or um presenting the idea of

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marksmanship to themselves . I go out

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to the range all the time to to work

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with soldiers . We'll have soldiers

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that are shooting maybe 12 to 15 ,

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and you need a minimum of 23 to pass .

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We'll talk about how they're handling

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the weapon . We'll talk about

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positioning , some ergonomic fixes , uh ,

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we'll talk about that mindfulness

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aspect . And then they'll generally

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within one or two iterations they're

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shooting closer to 30 , so pretty ,

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pretty significant improvements uh with

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the one on ones and that's just the

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spot checks on the day of the range

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with the groups of soldiers for the

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soldiers that actually engage and try

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to internalize the material we're

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seeing marked improvements across the

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board . I've been in and around the

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army since 2007 . And I would say that

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H2F is probably one of the best

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programs that the Army's put out in

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that time , just looking at the soldier

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as a whole person and Not , you know ,

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a a green suit and a number is , I

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think , a huge step forward .