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Hurry up . Hurry up .

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Let's go . Uh , so

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I'm First Sergeant Kick . I'm the first

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sergeant of the Gulf 122 , um , battery

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here at Fort Sill , Oklahoma . Uh ,

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back in January , myself , along with

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26 other individuals , um , came here

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to Fort Sill for the BCT expansive

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mission . Um , along with those 27

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individuals , there's 16 drill

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sergeants , 2 supply NCOs , a training

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NCO , operations NCO , and XL commander

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and myself . um , so when I , when I

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described that , it's , it's basically

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we are an entire basic training unit .

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Starting in January , we , we came here ,

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uh , to start the BCT expansive mission ,

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but we had to start from the ground .

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Uh , we , we were basically given a .

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Just a clean slate of a building with

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no nothing on walls , no furniture , no

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documents , nothing to basically use

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for past experience other than the

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active duty drills here on the ground .

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Um , so we started from basically the

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bottom . We were able to produce

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something that we're very proud of .

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We're able to produce a new basic

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training site , a new battery here in

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Forestville , Oklahoma that's gonna

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hopefully continue for for many years

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to come , um . Along with the , the

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help from the ninety-fifth Training

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division , we were able to , uh , get a

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lot of guidance and a lot of assistance

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to get this mission started and moving .

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Uh , so today , March 19th , we , we

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picked up our what we call the first

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cycle . And what I mean by that is

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basically today this morning we picked

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up 210 trainees from the 95th here at

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Fort Sill and one of the first things

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that they get introduced to is what we

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call the 1st 100 . The 1st 100 is kind

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of a new thing for some people in the

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military that's been in the military

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for some time , but the 1st 100 is kind

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of the new introduction of what they

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used to call the shark attack . This is

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now a moment that trainees , new

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trainees from the US Army can come and

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see sort of a competition . And not

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only are they competing against

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themselves and other other platoons ,

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they're competing against . Other

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trainees , but this is their

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opportunity to kind of see some of the

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things that they're going to do while

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basic basic training . Um , so we start

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with PRT , see some of the items that

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they're gonna do PRT . We start with uh

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the level one tasks , some of those

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things that they're gonna see while

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basic combat training , and then we

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start making sure that they really

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hound in on attention to detail and and

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stay in disciplined . Uh , this 1st 100

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is an opportunity for them to work on

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teamwork , uh , unity , and , and just

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become a team and know that their

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battle buddy is their success to basic

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basic training . Without battle buddies ,

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uh , they will , they will not succeed

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at basic training . It'll be a lot

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harder and that's something we really

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instill in the very beginning on the

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1st 100 . So after the 1st 100 , that's

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when the mission really starts . That's

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when we have started the basic training ,

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and that will consist of 9 weeks . Um ,

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throughout those 9 weeks , there'll be

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multiple events , um , multiple things

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that they will have to accomplish to be

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successful .