 I decided to qualify for the expert soldier batch to be set apart from my peers, get a jump start on my career. I prepared this year by taking all the deficiencies that I had from last year and focusing on them. I learned that from those deficiencies that there was a lot of things that I need to focus on and just fine tune and that's the mindset that I went into this upcoming EIU for train up. Well, I just thought it would be a great opportunity for me to show my guys and see if I can do it, then you guys should be out there doing things as well. I prepared with a lot of visualization, trying to get hands on during optional training and whatnot. Just trying to become proficient at all the tasks. I would just suggest, you know, let everybody come out here, give it a shot even if they don't understand all the lanes or anything. It's a pretty great training that you get that you can bring back to your unit. I believe that it makes me a role model for my soldiers and supporting its MPers alike just because it shows that I'm an expert at my MOS. I'm proficient at what the basic tasks are and not only does it make me a role model, I feel that it makes me a force multiplier coming back to my unit. Whether it being this side or this side, I feel like in any school that I go to it's not a you bad, it's more of a force multiplier. You take those skills and you go back to your unit and you're able to share the knowledge of wealth and I believe in that very strongly.