 Sergeant Brown and Staff Sergeant Granson. Hi Sergeant Major. Hello, my name is Staff Sergeant Grantstrom and I'm a part of 1864 Transportation Company. Good morning, my name is Sergeant Brian Brown with the 609th Engineering Company. Today I won the competition for the best warrior for NCO of the Year. And I'm the winner of this year's junior listed best warrior competition for the state of Nevada. A lot of the events had to do with different MOS's. Doing things that I don't traditionally do, for example, call for fire. So I reached out to the prospective units, people who are SMEs in that subject, and spent time with them training so I could learn properly how to do this and prepare for this competition. So for the past couple months I've been working with Staff Sergeant Reavers, who was a previous best warrior competitor committed only to nationals. I feel like the two events that really kind of set me apart where I knew I was doing well was the oral board after the first night, and then the pistol shooting out on the range. I excelled at the medical lane, the ACFT, the Rock March, and the shooting. Yeah, so it was a little bit of a first time to go on, so I'm looking forward to that. Some were warm for once in my military career. But I feel like it's going to be a lot more mystery events. I anticipate a lot of other well-prepared, trained soldiers and NCOs. I think what's going to help set me apart is I'm going to put in the time and the work to make sure to prepare myself as best as possible. Overall I think I have good support cast around me, starting with Reavers, and a couple of my buddies in my unit will help me out. The best advice I could give is getting back to the basics, focusing on your soldier tasks, your skill level one book, your blue book, and it's very easy as an NCO as you progress in your career to focus on more admin and forget about what it means to be a soldier. And then those are the simple tasks like shooting, PT, world board, weapons, radio comms, and so just to spend time practicing, going over the regulations, and make sure you're doing it right.