 Good morning, everyone. It's Vanessa here, Community Outreach Specialist, and today we are out with the NMO, the new member orientation class. Today five, they are doing a team building event for the majority of the day. And I just want to call it the mud run. You'll see the footage, you'll understand. But I'm going to have someone break down every obstacle that they go through, and how fun it is. Besides, so the key is to work as a team whenever you're going through the obstacles and carrying your equipment. It's a timed event, so any breaks you take, obviously, you're going to add time on the event. Try to come up with a plan if you have the option for someone to rest and cycle through, then develop some sort of plan as a team. Any questions? Alright, so everyone grab two ammo cans. I think I see a downed officer up ahead of us. Now it's mind over matter. You don't mind because it don't matter. Get up there. Let's go on McKinney. Come on. Let's go on McKinney. Wardell, get up here. Let's go. Come on. This man's dying up here. What I want you to do is make a mental note. Continue walking. Pick it up as a move on to the next one. When you get down to the end there, you're going to write everything down that you saw. The key is to keep moving, make mental notes, and pick up as much as you can. You're happy. I'll take you. How are you feeling? Did you know about any of this before coming into it? No, ma'am. So what do you think you were going to do today? Well, I had a brief idea of what we were doing today. Didn't know it was going to be as detailed as it was. You didn't ask anybody on the road. You were like, let me in on the goods. Like you're bouncing. You're like, I still got energy. You'll crash at some point. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see. Who else? Nobody? Nobody. You. I was like pushing through. I feel good. Yeah. I mean, you kind of conquered all of that. You helped out your teammates. Your brothers. It's a team effort. Exactly. I like that. I like that. That's all I'll take from you because I know you're out of breath. I am too. Okay, everyone, with corporate Rosina once again, who has just finished running the entire course with his group. There are three groups today. Yep. How we're not going to talk about how they were split up into their groups. It was random. Okay. But what did they do today? It was like, I've heard like six miles, however many miles we ran. So today is all about two things that I tell them. Team building and effort. All right. As long as they show me those two things, we are golden. We're golden. It's not about time. It's not about the best. Okay. It's about pushing yourself. It's about fighting for the man next to you. I like that. That's why today's built. I saw both of that with my group. That's why today was built. Today was not used to give a hell day. Today was not used for hazing. Today is to determine what everybody's all about, all right? Because I got two months with them. They're pretty much all fresh from the academy, except for a couple of them that have prior experience. They're all fresh from the academy. So you're about to enter FTO in two months. And so when that happens, they're going to be interacting with the citizens. They're going to be maybe ashamed. We've run that way. And that. Yes, so. You're telling him. Nicely, I am not the nice guy. Are we ready for our motivated run, guys? Motivated as hell, right? I want to be like Sergeant Sarah Soley when I get older. There you go. That's the last leg of it. Last leg. That's a mile run after a three mile trek in the woods. We'll be taking that gator. That gator back. Yeah. Let's finish this up. So what do they do? So they enter the course in front of property evidence and they pick up ammo cans, full ammo cans. All right, we tell them that there's an officer involved in an active shooter threat and they need that ammo. So it's on them to get that ammo to that true threat as fast as possible. Through that, there's some obstacles wherever the deputies go, the ammo goes. I saw the footage of it. I'll clip this audio in above the footage. So after that, they've dropped the ammo cans. We give them a little bit of a water break. And then we tell them they were a little tardy getting to that officer. Now he is down. He's shot in the chest. All right. So now they need to take that. That's Fred. That's Fred. Now they need to take that down officer and get him to the meta-back point. And that's where you see him carrying him. Okay. Then we get to another phase where there's some more supplies that need to go. And there's another mile or so trek of the course. And then we get to this point over here. It's called the KEMS games. What does KEMS stand for? Unfortunately, I don't know. It's to simulate a corrections deputy or a law enforcement deputy getting into a dramatic situation. But still being able to keep all the facts of the case under fatigue and under stress. All right. So they walk down this path right here, this really creepy look right here. All right. They walk down here and then they come over here and write down what they remember. And then I go back up and I evaluate it. And then the last leg is about a mile run. Felt like 10. I just want to say that. All together it's about four miles somewhere around there. Felt like 14. Plus they're wearing their active shooter kit. Yes. Steel plate in the front and the back. Those vests are heavier than the vests that we wear on Tweet-a-longs. Just like a random citizen. They're about 20 pounds. Yes. It's much heavier than that. And the ammo cans you saw, I'm carrying about 30 pounds. Each? Yes. And they have two of those guys you saw. And Fred is 175 pounds. For those of you that have been following along, you know me and Fred are friends from SWAT school. We are long distance friends. Yes. But that's everything that they did today. I think they did absolutely incredible. But yeah, today is, like I said, today is about team and effort. So I evaluate them all day. And I look for my leaders. And I look for the people that don't want to get into the limelight. So then I have the next two months in scenario training to put those people that don't want to get in the limelight in the limelight. And to just build them up basically. Break them down and build them up. Make them great deputies. We're not about breaking people down. Exactly. I'm glad that he corrected that. Okay. So we're going to hop on this gator. But thank you all for tuning in today. You heard from some of our deputy trainees about how they felt about it. I think they did great. We'll keep following these guys and see where they get to. But like the video if you haven't already subscribed. If you haven't comment below what you thought was the best part. I don't know. I think me running along with them was the best part. Absolutely. Yes. Big ups. Big ups. And I don't know if you're going to get this on camera, but Amanda was out here too. Amanda was here. Yes. Amanda had to go back to the office. But we both. I made it all the way through. Amanda stuck out strong for the beginning. All right. We'll see you guys next time. Break down. Break down. Break down.