 What is happening guys? Staff Sergeant Masiba here also known as our Tuzl on social media and Welcome to another episode of US Army basic combat training mini series. Your future starts here for today's episode We are gonna be talking about the victory tower victory tower is one of the many obstacle courses That you will go through as a trainee in army basic combat training The purpose of the victory tower is to help soldiers develop a sense of confidence And the willingness to overcome fears early on in their army careers The thought process is that a soldier needs to be confident in their own abilities before they can truly start to work With other soldiers as a team for many Overcoming that fear of heights can be a daunting task, but a rewarding one once that feat is actually accomplished. I Personally myself went through the victory tower eight years ago I never had any prior experience with obstacle courses Repelling and anything like that But the end of the day what the victory tower taught me is confidence and trusting my battle buddies and pretty much Everyone in my army team what we're about to share you now are two stories from army trainees that are currently going through basic combat training We're going down the victory tower Excited and nervous. I Want to make something special for my family and then and do something special for my country 13 Juliet for our control specialist. I'm from Atlanta, Georgia my husband and I want to be able to have a Meaningful career as well. I left a career in law enforcement to be an army wife and I wanted to do something real again I signed up as a 68 whiskey before I was law enforcement I was EMS and 68 whiskey kind of seems like the perfect combination of Enforcement and EMS so we're doing ropes repelling. It wasn't I thought it was really fun I'd say definitely the height is a little daunting to some people. I would say make sure you just get it in your head. You're here to execute and Do the right thing and you're not gonna have any problems here do the wrong thing and it's gonna be a little bit rough Right now is pretty much discipline listening and and doing the right thing Only putting each other accountable will help a lot working as a team I will tell them to be ready with discipline and if you're gonna join the army you have to take a serious pretty much Sergeant what I would like to say is if you're gonna join the army It's because you're pretty much want to do something with your life You want to better yourself you want to contribute to the United States and if you really want something You gotta go for it. You cannot give up first week second week is gonna be tough But you got to push yourself to you know don't don't have Satisfactions, there's no limits. I don't have limits. I am not a person that likes to settle and I like to be you know I'm very competitive. So I'm here for for that reason. All right. I want to give a shout out to my husband Carson I cannot wait to see you in a few weeks And then my parents my sisters and everybody oh My love I'm here in the in the end of the army. I just want to say thank you very much for Appoying me. It's that with me. You're always in my meds and thanks for having me in the future This is only for our family so that we have a better type of economic life and thank you very much I miss you very much. I love you and I hope that you watch this video and put a smile on your face Oh