 My name is Sergeant Kyle Newell, Bandy Troop, 214 Cav. My name is First Lieutenant Keith Said, I'm a platoon leader in Dragon Company 121 Infantry. I am First Lieutenant Rebbington Ponsay-Pore and I'm in 214 Cav. I'm First Lieutenant Nathan Perry, I'm with the 121 Gimlitz. I want to come out here and get my ESP as well I'm doing, but it sets you apart from your peers, sets you as an example to your soldiers and yes it's a great opportunity to do well here. I wanted to get my EIB because one it is a badge that represents basically the basic level skill, level tasks that every soldier should know, especially every infantryman should know and as an infantry officer I felt responsible to learn those tasks. So that would make a good impression on my soldiers and so that I'd have a better understanding of the daily tasks and standards that they're held to. I think that what separates high performing units and low performing units is doing the basics right. I think that the best units in the army they do the basics of an extremely high level of proficiency and I think that EIB, ESB is part of demonstrating that elite level of proficiency, your basic soldier tasks. I wanted to come out and get my EIB to motivate my soldiers to come out for subsequent EIBs and get theirs to show them that anyone can get their EIBs and these skill level one tasks are something that that we should all be proficient in for our jobs as infantrymen. Physically we've got enough sets and reps in doing rodeos with 214. We have multiple days of doing it and then we were able to come out here and do the full two-week train up and also as as skites in 19 deltas typically we we are familiar with a lot of these tasks. I stuck with two people each day we did a different lane and every single lane we would practice it four or five times over and over again until we got it perfectly. I worked with my partner from best ranger and then another member of our team and the three of us worked together so we had a system where we'd go to the lane we would review the content before we tested and then we would go through three repetitions exactly like the testing conditions would be when we had three perfect reps in a row we knew that we were ready to test. We drilled all 30 lanes as hard as possible during the short train up time that we had giving us good confidence going into testing week. There was a lot of challenging times I didn't it's it's true when they say just take one go at a time at the beginning I honestly I didn't expect to make it to right at the end you know. The biggest challenge of EIB is that every single task at EIB is pretty simple in itself but cumulatively the tasks can get muddled up the sequences can get mixed up so you have to be good at retaining information quickly and learning it quickly retaining it testing on it and then moving on from it. There was equipment that I was unfamiliar with my background in the army I'm an armor officer but I hadn't touched heavy weapons since my basic course and so learning the Javelin, learning the AT-4, learning the Mark 19 those weapons it was the first time for me to really touch them and get hands on. The most challenging times that we had throughout these lanes was dealing with stress dealing with heart rate dealing with nerves in a testing condition or in a testing environment and persevering through that and getting our getting our goes. I think it's going to leave a big impression on my soldiers I think that hopefully they'll strive to achieve the same and I think yeah they should come up and get their badge set themselves apart from their peers and you only have to do it once you know and if you make it you you don't have to do it again. The impression it leads on leaves on soldiers one it's um it inspires soldiers who don't have it to want to go and get it and then the soldiers that do have it it motivates them to achieve even greater things I hope that as soldiers go through this training it builds confidence in themselves that they know that when they get their EIB or their ESB that they know they are an expert and that encourages them to act like it know it believe it and then imbue that same mentality in the soldiers that they'll lead in the future. I want to motivate my soldiers to show them that their leadership supports them and every career advancement move that they want to make show them that an EIB is important for them in regards to their skill proficiency as infantrymen and also for their career progression for the future.