 at the RCE's best warrior competition, which was a, shall I say, EIB-like event. We had numerous tasks that the soldiers were competing in, everything from the ACFT to 9-Line Metabag, AWT lanes, ruck margins, just an overall assessment of the soldier's ability to perform certain tasks. As NCO's our job is to train soldiers on an individual task, and you know, we train soldiers, but at some point you have to test soldiers to make sure that they're trained correctly. And when you put it in a competition format, it really brings it out in the soldiers. Soldiers are able to see what their strengths are, what their weaknesses are, and it gives the leadership also an opportunity to assess what areas we may need additional work on when it comes to training. Now I'm really thankful that we were able to make it happen. Our operational tempo has been such that we weren't really sure that we were going to make it happen. You know, when we first hit the ground, this was one of my goals to have a best warrior competition before we left, and I'm thankful that we were able to get it done. They walked away with a better assessment of themselves. No one quit. Everyone was putting their all in it, and that's the most impressive thing. They didn't have to be here. They all wanted to be here. They all put forth a lot of effort to the very end, so my heads up to each and every one of them.