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do something drill sergeants are cussing at soldiers anymore have you got to use that language to get somebody to do something you are not relevant in our army anymore this is boot camp right here and no food cooking stop where we find out what it takes to serve in the U.S military from the challenges new Cadets face at West Point to our exclusive view into the U.S military's newest Branch there's a possible event in sector 52 and how the Army is changing how they train drill sergeants after working with job for the last what a couple of freaking minutes hey y'all gonna be good leaders Y'all Gonna Be Good drill sergeant we begin with how Army cooks are trained [Applause] when U.S army soldiers are on deployments we're running field exercises they have to eat a lot [Music] that's where Army culinary Specialists come in if a unit goes out to the field if the unit deploys well they've got to eat so we're going with them after completing basic training future culinary Specialists head to Fort Lee Virginia to train for eight weeks where they'll learn how to cook for up to 800 soldiers in this it might not look like much now stand clear but when it's fully assembled it has the capability to act as a fully functioning kitchen that can keep troops fed in the most remote of environments we went from a box on Wheels to a whole freaking kitchen right but before trainees cook for hundreds of hungry soldiers out in the field that looks like more than five does not know they have to start with the basics there you go okay some of them don't even know how to turn a stove on insiders spent five days at Fort Lee observing several classes at various stages of training one of the main things that I like to tell my soldiers as I'm training them is we don't just provide food we provide fuel for those Personnel who are on the front line for the war fighter sold this side in three to four thousand members of the army and National Guard graduate every year from the eight-week course which is broken down into five sections first classroom training on food safety sanitation and nutrition then Hands-On training in the techniques of cookery before moving on to baking cookies pies and more next five days of cooking in the Garrison dining hall finally training culminates outdoors with a week of cooking in the Army's mobile kitchens trainees arrive at Fort Lee with varying levels of cooking experience what kind of experience do you have cooking before arriving at Fort Lee I cooked a lot with my mother I have an associate's degree in culinary arts I had no experience at all cooking prior experience is not necessary one of the awesome things about our job everything you need to know we can teach you here so the customer ate it that's all it takes training begins in the classroom with two days of instruction in sanitation and nutrition the information that trainees learn is to ensure that the cooking good nutritious food for the Warfighter and then they also learn about safety sanitation how to prevent infectious disease how not to transfer and cross-contaminated food and then how to provide safe meals sanitation is everything if your people aren't saying if and if you aren't safe then the mission can't be completed trainees are tested at the end of each block of training in the form of a 50-question exam we have anywhere from 9 to 15 different diseases that they learn then they have to understand what food items they're found in how do their practices impact their ability to be able to spread those diseases to different customers within those facilities you will go to these stations you will put on your hat and you'll put on your apron training moves from the classroom to the cooking Labs during techniques of cookery the techniques of cooking is basically their first introduction to the kitchen some of them don't even know how to turn the stove on so that's where I get to teach them how to use their equipment but before they start cooking trainees need to become familiar with the tools they'll be working with this first Bend in your finger this first little knuckle alright this is going to be the furthest point up so this is going to be on your knife it'll be just like this there's a couple methods that I use like a claw method making sure that they tuck their uh their fingertips underneath because in our field if you kind of need your fingers you kind of need all of them cube is what same size all around right all right so trainees get to see instructor demonstrations on how to cook certain foods during their first four days in the labs but they won't have that luxury later on weigh up your beef put it in your large pot and you just move on to the next step okay they'll come up to our front of our stations and we'll literally show them how to do it step by step according with the recipe card then they have the opportunity to go back to their stations and apply what we taught them how to do that product if you dice in your small pot yet yes read your recipe cards guys that is key foil you're gonna put the lid on your beef stew and then turn it down to a simmer yeah I think in this whole procedure if you don't understand how to read a recipe card then you're gonna fail you have to be able to read it step by step that way you can learn how to do these things and execute this looks like more than five isn't it Jesus there you go okay the hardest thing is probably retaining information learning the techniques that we teach them and then applying it take your ladle you don't want to Overkill make it look nice and neat part of your grade is presentation guys once the trainees have completed their recipe they bring their finished product to the back of the cooking lab to be graded on presentation technique and execution we teach on the basics it's how to cut how to slice we also teach them how to simmer how to braise how to saute and then we teach them about moisty dry heat all those things Incorporated get them ready for what is known as a cook-off at the fifth day don't stress out have fun make sure you have your utensils during the cook-off trainees have one hour to prepare a chef's salad green beans lionese and spaghetti with a Ragu Sauce but won't receive a demonstration or explicit guidance from their instructor [Music] coming in today for cook-off I was actually excited because I enjoy cooking that's fun I was a little nervous about what to expect you know I know not knowing like a big mistake it'll just hold out of anxiety a lot of nervous thoughts and excitement lunch in one cluster sometimes they are scared because there is a time that they have that they're timed with and also you know it's just stressful and then you got me watching you around your back and all that stuff [Music] at the end of the cook-off the trainees dishes are graded on a number of criteria they'll be docked points if items are not cut properly dishes are undercooked or overcooked or if their sauce is not the right consistency the thing he did wrong with us so if we slices correct those are rings yeah but you did good on everything else you overcooked your onions a little bit okay and a little bit too big okay a lot of the students did a lot of things right the biggest thing is when they do cut UPS some of their cuts that they do for these products are either too big some things that are wrong is they don't drain all the liquids off of certain individual items presentation is important because it's all about eye appeal so when you go to any restaurant and you serve something outstanding that's going to show the people that you put your Flair into it you put your own your own artwork into it soft it's outstanding good job salad good presentation and good Cuts all right so good job all the trainees passed all their products today so it makes me feel very happy it makes me feel like they listen to what I had to teach and they applied it to everything that they played it on their presentation it actually preparing as see actually how you got it all this put into one dish it comes out so well it tastes so good it puts a lot of pride in your heart use your reference fashion to get all that sugary goodness inside the bowl now armed with a foundation in the techniques of cooking trainees move on to baking well you know everybody has a sweet tooth but like I say we just not feeding soldiers we're feeding civilians too so we just make sure we give them a nice home away from home treat and I think everybody deserves that when you're putting your sweet potato pie mixture in your shell ensure you do not get it on the edges or it's going to burn everybody tracking remember get your butter knife you will stick it in the center and then pull out it should come out clean so if not just put it back in there but sometimes a techniques of cooking they have trouble in that and then they become the best baker in this section because they know they have to pay attention to detail and they can't skip any steps baking is a science and if you don't pay attention exactly you're gonna get it wrong if we was in had a conventional oven yeah it will be done but these gas because the heat is coming from up from the bottom is taking longer for it to cook around it I've learned a lot a lot with Miss Harrison she's a great great cook great teacher so once your fruit pie and your sweet potato pie if done are both on the same sheet pan then we're going to present it over there by our numbers once again the trainees finished products are graded on a number of criteria for my custard pie you guys did a real good job so the filling looks good so now my eyes is going to the crust okay so that's what's going to sell me the crust who is tight who's this number six number two and number seven again you did a good job today the baking module of training also ends in a 50 question exam and bake off but for now trainees get to enjoy the fruits of their labor The Garrison operations module of training is a culmination of everything the trainees have learned so far it's the first glimpse of what they will see once they get to their actual unit after they graduate trainees spend five days cooking in an actual Garrison kitchen at Fort Lee preparing a variety of food we observed one platoon of trainees over the course of several mornings which starts at 0-500 with what's called a Cook's Mount it's accountability for everyone that's supposed to be on the shift and we're checking for the hair we're checking to make sure that it's nice and neat we're checking for a nail length we're checking to make sure that there's no abrasions or make sure that they're not sick once the trainees pass their daily inspection they start preparing breakfast [Music] think about when y'all made cinnamon rolls upstairs in small quantity bacon you're making it the same way operations are a lot more thorough than what I had expected it to be everybody is assigned to their own station and position and whatever doesn't get done in the end we pick up the slack and as a team and work together to ensure that food gets handled out in an orderly matter like the entire ham up cut it off then you remove the ham right and you put into your third pan okay for the first couple of days I look for them to be sort of confused they don't know where things are they don't know how to turn on certain equipments and things of that nature you want to kind of make it in a straight line right and then remember which ones you laid down first right come Thursday and Friday then that's when the instructors typically take a step back and then we kind of let them operate on on their own so we can see if they're grasping the information even though it was stressful it was really like Hands-On and you got to like learn the experience a lot more things and you got to make more like meals prepare dishes for like other people to eat not just yourself and your platoon thank you very much trainees head outside for the fifth and final module of training which is focused on field cooking operations they're gonna hear you know what I mean the equipment that we teach here at field operations training Branch that's the equipment that we use in the operational Force but before they can start cooking in the mobile Kitchens on Lyft everybody raise it up Ready Set Go they have to learn how to build them let me get four up there everybody else down here on the ground so the mobile kitchen trailer we can use that when we got up to 300 Personnel to feed three times a day and in basically any environment take a mental note of where everything is all right because that's how we're gonna pack it back up in addition to the mobile kitchen trailer trainees are taught how to build and operate the Army's containerized kitchen or ck the containerized kitchen that is our largest field feeding platform we're going to use our containerized kitchen more often in the situation where we've built up some infrastructure we have the capacity to feed 800 personnel and with our capacity more people we can bring more people in to support that area to defend that area and to accomplish those missions the process is setting up the CK is very challenging because there's a lot of big moving Parts you got to watch out for your battle buddies because there's a lot of things that's unfolding and spreading out on the CK so you got to communicate over the course of two weeks trainees have to pass a 50-question exam and demonstrate proficiency with each piece of equipment we went from a box on Wheels to a whole freaking kitchen right y'all made that with love huh y'all made that with love they look good the final week of training is spent cooking in the mobile kitchens and not just for themselves at any given time we can have up to three or four hundred Personnel out here on the grounds they're going to break down their meals they're going to identify how many personnel they're actually feeding and then they're going to actually prepare meals for everybody at fotb not just their group I asked specifically told nobody to turn on the mbu without my eyes on it you got this burning right here and no food cooking stop put them on there again nobody will turn on any nbus without me visually looking at you learning in the mobile kitchen it's been challenging because it's it's different it's a lot of moving Parts it's a lot of things that you have to take into consideration the aspect that I do enjoy the most in the mobile kitchen is the closeness I get with my battle buddies I could just be like okay here's this put this to the side for a minute help them out cool spin around help the next person go back to what I'm doing like we work as a team one full Scoopa oatmeal one full spoon in my experience their response to utilizing the equipment is by far and away positive they like learning and they like seeing the fruits of their labor when we go to the field soldiers are tired they're running through missions they're running through lane and then when they see you it's almost like they're not tired no more because they got food they got nice Hot Child in this that's just the most motivating thing according to Fort Lee about 95 percent of trainees Who start the course are able to graduate once they do they'll be assigned to their next unit either domestically or at one of the hundreds of army bases around the world training here has been an experience it's been fun I learned a lot of the new things including a lot of different elements and environments and stuff like that so it's been great this job is not lower than any other job that's in the military it's just as hard as any other job out there what I think about food is morale when they come out of the field doing you know crazy things out there you know they have a good meal hot meal then it makes us happy and gives them more energy and they're able to accomplish their mission this is Landry on repair this is one of the most intense exercises at West Point's basic training new Cadets must repel down a 25-foot Cliff face then a 75-foot wall see what's coming up oh hell jump hell yeah United States Military Academy in West Point New York is the number one Military Academy in the U.S where 120 000 of the nation's top students and soldiers apply each year only 10 percent get in and new Cadet jabril Williams is one of them I'm excited I'm going to attack it with as much enthusiasm and intensity as I can but before the start of school Williams and his fellow Cadets must complete the six-week basic training program beginning of the 47-month journey that creates the next generation of leaders for the US Army look Cadet basic training or CBT begins immediately after our day our day or reception day is the day when students first report to West Point and get assigned to the company they'll train in attention the class is divided into nine companies each competing to earn the most points and be awarded the title of best company at the end of basic training congratulations CBT upperclassmen serve as the leaders or Cadre the most important thing we do at West Point is teach leadership followership and instill the warrior ethos because when they graduate here they're going to go lead America's Sons and Daughters after our day Cadets begin their training by learning the basics to gain the confidence they need before moving on to more advanced skills foreign make sure you put it on safe and take your finger off the trigger next time all right the first thing they do is they go and they learn how to qualify on a M4 carving so they go out and do Marksmanship training every soldier in basic training is qualified on a rifle most of them have never picked up a weapon in their life [Music] hello there's 40 rounds there's different targets set at different distances out uh in each lane on the Range and they'll pop up in different combinations so they shoot from five different positions and we do a lot of practice leading up to it but this is when they all put it together and put it to the test to become qualified in basic rifle Marksmanship Cadets must score a minimum of 23 out of 40 possible points each dummy contains a sensor that when hit sends a signal up to the control tower adding a point to The cadet's Score Lane 11 31. so if they don't pass they're gonna stay until they do so every company before us has had everybody call that is able to call before they leave for the day I actually went out of Lane one which isn't a great range because 27 28 my highest hard ER today Cadets are taking their Land Navigation test but that's okay they have three hours to find a minimum of three out of five hidden points we are given a map with different points you will find what's called an attack Point attack points are a point on the map that you know hey I am here from there you'll take out your compass and you'll shoot a Azimuth and from 180 degrees I know my point is 180 meters so I'll walk out 180 meters and then boom find my point each Cadet receives unique coordinates and sets out to complete the test alone don't lose your sports card each attack point is represented by an orange flag when Cadets find it they must mark their scorecard using the attached hole puncher are unable to find enough points in the allotted time they fail the test and must return later to attempt the course again points for their company ambitious new Cadets aim to beat record set by past West Point students after only an hour and 31 minutes a Cadet has returned with all five points found correctly only nine minutes away from breaking the school record a big win for the ongoing best company competition having spent a couple weeks learning basic military skills new Cadets are now ready to learn Advanced skills that will test their confidence Soldier [Music] Soldier CBT Cadets get to experience the gas chamber also known as the house of tears right now we are at the house of Tears everyone here is nervous whether they made or not to go in that gas chamber and I think that part of this whole experience throughout these six weeks is like overcoming your fears and your anxiety for things that are dangerous the house of Tears is designed to instill confidence in the new Cadets but also to teach them how to properly wear mop gear so you Don it you put the mask over the back of your head you breathe the bad air out you suck good air in it suctions your face suck it again you're good to go with masks secure the first platoon enters the chamber door uh we file in about 20 of us at a time you stand along the walls a little bit of an intense environment a little bit sketchy and scary you do some jumping jacks check the mask like you lift the mask up for about 10 seconds and then you put it back down to seal it out and then after that of course you take it off and do the Soldier's Creed [Applause] feel the spice on your skin you feel it on your hands your neck your face you get about uh three or four words in and you start choking and coughing the Cs gas used during training is composed of tiny particles that float through the air and land on human skin irritating areas of moisture more specifically mucous membranes in the eyes nose mouth and lungs [Music] after a few seconds it kind of goes away and it becomes a lot better and you kind of can laugh about it [Applause] I want to kill somebody this week we've been working on individual movement techniques as well as medical Lanes during the medical Lane training event Cadets Rock through a forest and are then ambushed by enemy forces played by non-commissioned officers I mean Security on the frontal side and the bravo team squad will be rendering Aid and half of them will be pulling rear Securities my role was a team leader in Alpha Team I'm the first person who is reacting to the contact shortly after the squad is ambushed a casualty has been announced that requires Medical Aid where's the casualty now for two and a half get that tighter get that tighter that is not an effective tourniquet provide cover while Cadets applied to the tourniquet to the dummy casualty one Cadet was hit by enemy fire [Music] you are now blindly got a broken arm start screaming it's okay hurry up I need to leave now moving keep moving we got this man once casualties are relocated to a safe location Cadets radio in for helicopter rescue dust off this is Pitbull I have a Medevac request over line One Whiskey Lima 8579-8624 instructors simulate helicopter sounds and play the role of a Medevac crew yeah respiratory Airways blocked off [Music] index what was going through your head when you heard this first 10 shots oh definitely nerve-wracking um it's pretty exciting honestly but um I was just like oh shoot like yeah like we're about to begin it was pretty fun sir oh man that was hectic I got thrown right into that don't be scared as Cadets continue to gain confidence in their skills they are brought to the mountaineering and repelling course where they learn to safely make their way down natural Cliff faces in the New York mountains today we learned how to set up our belts how to cinch them how to use our brake hand and get our feet set overcome some fear should be touching your spine that's your break in all right the exercise is the repel but the challenge is getting over your fear and inching down the cliff one inch at a Time new Cadet Williams started on the 25-foot wall I mean quickly lost his footing I definitely had some fear after that slip but I gained my ground after Conquering the 25-foot wall Williams was ready for the 75-foot wall if we don't fall like this first time all right a mess of like the first time this drop is a little bit deeper Lane three on Rebel this time I had a wider base I noticed that was what kind of messed me up on the 25 foot one see what's coming up oh hell you got to give yourself a little leap and then you gotta shoot your arm out to give yourself some slack to clear that Gap otherwise you're gonna slam your hands into the wall all right jump hell yeah once Cadets make it down the 75-foot wall they move to the mountaineering course and use their hands and feet to climb up the Cliff face that's the thing I didn't look down I didn't look down until I was halfway through the only thing that was going through my head really was man all these people are watching it would be a shame if I fell so once Cadets reach the top of the mountaineering Lane they're instructed to let go and walk backwards down the cliff lean back trusting that their battle buddy and their equipment will keep them safe this gives us knowledge on being a well-rounded Soldier you're not always going to have to go to a mission or have a mission where you're going to need to repel but it's just good background knowledge to have as the end of summer nears new Cadets are ready to put their skills to the test in an event called The Crucible so Crystal here is the penultimate team building event this is the last chance for each company to earn points and come out on top as the best company all of your Warrior skills your individual tasks they're all kind of put to the test platoons have two hours to map out eight different stations given as coordinates correctly locate them and then complete the tasks to get as many points as possible when you get to the point you have to execute some type of physical movement help help the first event is a race where Cadets must securely strap a Cadre to a skid and race around a set of cones following the skid race one volunteer has to correctly put on an entire set of mop gear and seal the mask in nine seconds and correctly assume mop level four Ready Set come on come on [Music] [Applause] do your wrists [Applause] next the platoons must find a new location where they must move a partner on their back 50 yards using either a fireman's carry or a piggyback we also practice the employment of hand grenades obviously not actual hand grenades but with the hollow shells and making sure we can employ those properly which for us is landing within five meters of targets at 30 meters distance which is the proper range of the employment of a hand grenade I think we did really good overall we came in at the very last minute which means we were pushing all the way to the very end as many points [Applause] [Music] six weeks after arriving at West Point as civilians 1194 new Cadets were able to ring the bell a West Point tradition that signifies that Cadet basic training is over on the last day of CBT Cadets complete a 12 mile Ruck back to West Point's campus in an event known as March back Alpha Company won the best company competition and led the class back to campus new Cadets are welcomed by the community and parents to celebrate this Milestone I'm proud of myself we were continually given challenges and we overcame them I feel relieved and also like empowered to move on to the Academic Year I've learned a lot here with Cadet basic training completed these incoming freshmen or plebes as they're now called are ready for the next big challenge the academic year we'll persevere and get that resilience because it's not about how hard you could throw a punch or how hard you could take one it's about how often you get back up [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] this is the inside of a radome playfully called golf balls by space force Guardians these radomes house satellite dishes that help Guardians detect incoming missiles sent by Foreign adversaries a crucial piece of equipment that has saved hundreds of American lives it was the largest ever ballistic missile attack on Americans on January 8 2020 Iran fired missiles at the al-assad air base in Iraq where 2 000 American troops were stationed our troops right here at Buckley were able to detect the missiles and then report the specific areas at risk at al-assad and afford the troops on the ground the opportunity to escape and get out of the way and as a result nobody died since its Inception in 2019 the United States space force has quickly become a crucial component of the U.S military but many Americans still don't understand what exactly this Branch does I like the idea of a space force I mean I don't know if we need it and I'm sure there are better ways we could spend our money but it sounds awesome it really does in reality space force Guardians work from bases on the ground to help protect assets up in space there's a possible event in sector 52. Insider was granted access to Buckley space force base in Aurora Colorado to see how Guardians detect incoming missiles and to learn more about the newest branch in the U.S military originally my plan was to go Air Force but when I gave my job list to my recruiter he's like hey all these jobs are either being transferred or are currently in the space force would you like to essentially switch from Air Force to space force I immediately was like yep switch me all enlisted space force Junior Guardians start their career at Lackland Air Force Base that's because the space force recently split off from the Air Force creating the sixth official U.S military branch so we transitioned from the Air Force to a space force to put that level of focus from a programmatic resourcing and Manpower perspective because at the end of the day when it comes to the protection of the space domain that focus is imperative after basic military training Junior Guardians begin their specialized classroom training in a program called starcom once I was done with basic they immediately sent me over to Vandenberg from there we learned everything fundamental we needed to learn from space training from satellites to to telescopes to simple Stars Guardians move on to more Hands-On training when they arrive at their assigned Mission Delta a space Delta is a space force organization that is a sign a particular Mission area within the space force the operations swing or space Operations Command has nine Mission Deltas each with a different Focus for example space Delta 6 known as cyber Delta focuses on cyber security from GPS to making payments on your credit cards to making phone calls to communicating with anybody in the world all of that comes down to what we have available in space and if that's those space assets are contested by adversaries or whatnot we lose that ability to function at our Peak Performance the largest Delta space Delta IV is headquartered here at Buckley space Force Base so space Delta 4's Mission per se is to be able to protect to guard against missiles missile attacks launch against the United States our allies as well as deploy troops worldwide at Buckley Junior Guardians do on-the-job training for three months in a mission management course and we'll just drill them when different experiences different lessons and we'll have them conduct operations on the simulator the simulator at Buckley uses real-life scenarios to train Guardians due to the sensitive nature of the mission we were not permitted to film the screens which could reveal top secret areas of interest but we were allowed to document a training session from an approved vantage point there is a possible event in sector 52. so we are being trained to be the first line of defense we are learning how to correctly and accurately collect and identify these systems any of our ad series could be throwing at us to detect incoming missiles Delta IV uses a space-based infrared system or sibers 11 satellites in space that orbit around either the equator or poles and scan Earth's surface for heat anomalies that infrared data is sent down from the satellites to these giant Ray domes which house satellite dishes that are strategically pointed at areas of Interest around the world infrared data is presented in a way on our on our display panels if you will missile launch confirmed impact area located in sector 42. Junior Guardians call authorities to inform them of possible events so they can alert the targeted areas YouTube how copy this is Vortex out there's a lot of pressure but they also teach us how to do it correctly and as calmly as possible make sure we speak up a little bit but great job getting confirmation of missile launch and finally outstanding getting the information out to our allies and partners making sure that they were on the same page with us do you guys have any questions after Junior Guardians have finished their mission Management training they can begin their job on the operations floor due to the operations floor's 24 7 active role in missile detection cameras are rarely allowed but we were able to observe a couple of Guardians as they kept Watch Over The Radars what we do in packs almost everyone in their day-to-day lives whether they're here whether they're downrange like it's life or death the mission is accomplished by the young men and women sitting at the operations floor and we put a lot of trust and a lot of responsibility on these folks because we have trained them to be that good right now in stage training I'm still a little nervous because I am not fully confident in myself but I know eventually later on in training I will be able to do good on the App Store space force is the president's boldest idea that he got from a Buzz Lightyear Happy Meal toy when the space force was first announced it became the subject of late night punch lines there's even a Netflix series poking fun at the branch the president is creating a new Branch space force which Mark will run what the show provides a framework of notional Hollywood ideas of what the organization is about a lot of these misperceptions is just a lot of unknowns and curiosity about what space force is when in reality the space force was created out of the recognition that space is so important to a way of life that it deserves to be protected the space force also gets confused with its civilian counterpart NASA so NASA being our exploration as well as scientific branch of the government they're looking out beyond the stars trying to look out get all that scientific data as well as looking at manned missions on the space force side looking more inwardly making sure that we're looking to rest early to help our Ground Forces Air Forces as well as our allies and partners people constantly ask us or if they see me in uniform in a space Force uniform they're like oh have you been to space like when's the last time you've been to space there's actually very few operators that do go to space lucky for them what we do is operate all of our assets within space foreign force is constantly growing and evolving on August 4th 2022 right before our visit to Buckley the space force launched g06 the sixth sybers geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite into space our success is not so much what we do to an adversary our success is more measured in terms of what an adversary does not do to us because we stand guard this job is 24 7. it is something that is necessary and our mission does not stop no matter what how [Music] shut your mouth shut your mouth we're gonna win everything the whole cycle you still stay humble all right span of two years the US Army has completely changed its approach to training new recruits are cussing at soldiers anymore if you got to use that language to get somebody to do something you are not relevant in our army anymore with which means the way drill sergeants are trained has also changed that's frankly something that we adopted during the Vietnam era it was because we had a drafted Force but the reasons for this recent shift may go beyond adapting to a modern volunteer army [Applause] people don't want to stay and with change comes criticism if there is the belief that the Army is woke and that we are getting softer you couldn't be farther from the truth Insider visited the United States Army drill sergeant academy in Fort Jackson South Carolina to see how drill sergeant training has changed to better prepare the army of tomorrow [Music] come United States Army drill Sound Academy day one of the drill sergeant training begins promptly at 0-600 with a teen building event called The Defender pickup let's go the first task is they're going to run a certain amount of distance and they're going to get to their first values boards how many people call this so good infield they care about their soldiers right now and we go over each Army value this exercise is a new addition to the drill sergeant Academy it shows candidates how soldiers are now welcome to the Army and it also highlights the core values that drill sergeants are meant to embody let's talk about integrity they're grabbing all of their value boards drill sergeant candidates are shown a bunker configuration and given 30 seconds to memorize it they're expected to remember exactly the configuration how high it is whether it's two sandbags High three sandbags High yep there's three there's three on top then they have to get inspected by the senior drill side of that platoon as far as you have one Hotel figure out come back and make a correction the final step of the event requires splatoons to stack their value boards which have correctly done reveals the drill sergeant badge and motto once they see that it's kind of the oh hey I'm actually in drill starting school it's here this is real you know what you know what is modeled after an exercise called the first 100 yards the day one training competition for new infantry soldiers which replaced the more controversial shark attack right right there we're breaking a lot of habits from the civilian world and nothing better than a little shock to the system to establish that that drill sergeant is in charge [Applause] yelling at a trainee yelling at an individual period they get into defense mode they shut down right those barriers go up and once those barriers go up it's pretty hard to really get to the root cause of situations with a new approach to training in mind future drill sergeants learn the three different methods for training recruits on the command the soldier may move however he must remain standing and Silent with the rifle in the place the SE methods give drill sergeants the ability to customize their training instead of a one-size-fits-all approach everybody drives different everybody does something different different ways to skin a cat but here the purpose of of what we're doing here at the Academy is to have a standardized way of effectively training trainees to do something though there's flexibility in how drill sergeants can train new recruits there isn't always flexibility in becoming a drill sergeant in the first place of the 2200 drill sergeant candidates who come through the academy each year on average only 35 percent of them volunteer the remaining 65 percent are da selected which means they were nominated by their superiors and assigned a tour as a drill sergeant what went through your mind when you got that I got a bit emotional because I was like oh um I have three kids first thing come to your mind is like the hours my kids are young so I felt like I was going to be taken away from them for a while it wasn't my first choice my husband was deployed I was at home with a kid by myself and working full-time so I thought it was not ideal and I didn't want to do it at first yes 100 is 100 changed uh being here has given me a whole new perspective on being a drill sergeant and being in tradoc and training trainees while the Army has to choose more than half of its future drill sergeants it can't choose future soldiers and recruitment especially among gen Z has been on a steady decline according to a 2021 survey from the Department of Defense young people ages 16 to 24 are less inclined to join the military reaching the lowest level since 2007. and perceptions about military culture may also contribute to low recruitment which is things that people say is happening in the Army and you all are the ambassadors to make change in that rhetoric you all over the next two or three years have an opportunity to change the dynamic one of the hardest parts of the training for future drill sergeants is relearning the basics 100 150 like basic rifle Marksmanship for many students their army jobs don't require daily rifle usage I am a 68 Delta surgical technician I'm a medic so mini drill sergeant candidates have to relearn rifle Basics and how to teach those to recruits and the hardest thing about that is you have to get those bad habits out of your mind though hey well this is how I do because how you do it you might not be able to communicate that effectively to a trainee so coming back here and having to learn those basic fundamentals the way that you're going to teach them it is a little different from what I was accustomed to back home so it's a new qualification that they're teaching on the trail they have to maintain a 23 or higher 35. put that as the final one not only are they shooting to qualify they have to know how to zero their own weapon they have to know how to analyze shot groups from different individuals hey be 150. for some it was challenging but for me if if you come in you humble yourself and you get back to the basics because if you go back to the basis you can't go wrong while the rifle Marksmanship test may have been a breeze for some the Army insists that the changing tone of army boot camp hasn't made it any easier for new recruits I expect you to perform at this particular standard full stop and then allow them to execute at that standard without having to do all the other Antics you're going to have a far better product it doesn't mean that we've relaxed any standards it means there's the same amount of structure and discipline we've always had in army training we just do it in a professional way [Music] dude in week 7 candidates complete complete their physical Readiness training evaluation candidate artega I will be the pi this morning fall in then to left March your main job is the op tempo of the actual PRT session so your Cadence your count things of that nature and you're saying whatever the exercises you're basically the one on the stand without warning the drill sergeant leader will tell the students to switch places and after switching roles the other students will have to pick up exactly where the previous student left off quadruplex dropped all the way down to the marching surface what that means you may need to unlock your elbows so you do the other counts fine but then you get to that last one you say one two three you need it one two three oh so I gave you a total of 77 points and I gave you a 85. any questions interesting all right so unless you'll hear from me with a week left at the drill sergeant Academy the only thing standing between the students and their graduation is a grueling culminating event unlike other training drills the culminating event is the first event entirely run by the students they plan it they resource it and they execute it entirely on them each Squad of drill sergeant students is put in charge of one of the events and this is where we want them to feel you know we want them to go through the hiccups now of the resourcing piece so that when they get on the trail they they understand that hey things will happen and I had to adjust you know on the Fly there are five events in the culminating training event first event is the battle margin shoot it's basically a stress shoot so they March a certain amount of distance and then once they get to their objective uh which is a range they immediately drop their rucks and get down into their fighting positions and they start engaging their targets following the Battle marks and shoot we have the sticks lanes let's go so they run through different Lanes reacting to contact breaking contact things of that nature once they go through that they'll move on to their next task which is the third one which is a mass casualty event or mass cow they'll be marching from one point to another and in between those points they'll receive heavy contact let's go let's get the bird in here the Georgetown leader candidates who are in charge of the particular Mass Cal event they're going to walk around and say Hey you know you've been hit by IDF your right leg is blown off right and now they're trying to assess you know what is everybody going to do when there is a mass casualty event how are we going to remain calm and control the situation like that following the mass casualty event we have the fit to win which is the obstacle course that they go through all right so today our three Squad will run through each obstacle and they will basically do it for time you gotta run [Music] here the goal here is to you know build that camaraderie build that competition it's at the end somebody can have bragging rights in the very last event of the culminating training event is the Five Mile Road March and this is huge because this is the first time that they are actually called drill sergeants we pin the badges on them uh we congratulate them and we also celebrate in a Little Rock ceremony only fitting that we do a Grog ceremony for all of you representing you'll be coming drill sergeant a Grog ceremony is a tradition that combines an odd mix of liquids creating one unique Punch or grog that drill sergeants all toast and drink [Applause] a little spicy sometimes [Applause] that tastes like awesome it's cold [Applause] the final week of training begins with the common dance run a ceremonial exercise where the commandant joins the graduating class one last time all your soldiers winning nine weeks after joining the academy it is graduation day for 83 new drill sergeants drill sergeants receive their campaign cover and officially begin their tour as the United States Army drill sergeant people they they see the uniform they see the Hat they see um their sons and daughters go off and put on that uniform and we have uh this misconception that that human element has been removed when in fact it's actually the complete opposite I am ready to get started it's going to be the next two maybe three years of my life and I want to make the most of it my nephew just recently joined the army and I get to set the example like I am the standard it's an honor for me the Army needs you to be a very good leader drill star please take care of our soldiers [Music] [Music] thank you this is Bach an explosives detection K-9 for the Transportation Security Administration or TSA ready personally I feel if my dog screened that person that I would put myself my family or my mom on that plane my dog is that good that nothing has come past him every day Bach and his Handler Gary will screen between three and four thousand passengers for explosives at Philadelphia International Airport but before Bach and Gary started working together as an explosives detection team very good feather feather nice they spent 16 weeks training here at the TSA canine training center at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas the TSA National explosives detection canine program graduates more than 300 dogs and more than 150 handlers every year they train in mock airplanes and airport terminals where they learn crucial techniques they'll have to master before graduating there is nothing more effective out there in all of tsa's Arsenal a well-trained dog team is truly a force multiplier that really combats terrorism there are more than 1 000 TSA canine teams deployed Nationwide the starting pay for a Handler is about 43 000 a year so the first thing where we start is teaching the dog the basic fundamentals of how to use their nose to find something and luckily for us dogs already naturally do that so we just manipulate the environment so we can tap into their natural abilities one of those environments is a mock wide body aircraft similar to one that they might encounter in the real world Uzi a two-year-old Belgian Malinois was around 20 days into training the dogs are first taught to search for their favorite toy and are rewarded once they find it oh you got it good man you got it puppy you got it again we buy these dogs for drive that dog is going to want that toy oh good man good man it's good man so as you can see we're just kind of using the reward to shape the behavior getting him used to going in searching the rules about 160 dogs are in training at any given time and they come in all shapes and sizes through years of trials and tribulations we have honed in on essentially seven different breeds so you have your Belgian Malinois your German Shepherds we also have the Labrador Retrievers the German Shorthaired Pointers the vizlas those type of dogs and we found that they have the innate ability both cognitively and with their olfactory that we have a lot of positive results with those specific breeds Pepsi Pepsi as the dogs progress trainers introduce training AIDS filled with explosive materials and reward the dogs for finding them oh look at this this dog poopy a two-year-old German short-haired pointer was 70 days into training heated exercises the dogs learned that detecting the odor earns them their toy and begins searching for the odor itself we condition them that this piece that you're looking for means a whole lot and we use the toy to do that so as the dogs going through and they're searching and sniffing when they catch that odor that scent their body reacts as if we just gave them a toy so we teach our dogs what's called a passive final response so once they have worked and located something we teach them to either go into a sit or a doubt oops of the program date back to March 7 1972 when a bomb threat was called in on a TWA Flight right after it took off from JFK International Airport forcing the plane to turn around and land a team through the New York Police Department trained to detect explosives happen to be at JFK at the same time this canine named Brandy went on to the aircraft conducted a search and alerted to what looked to be a pilot's briefcase adjacent to the cockpit explosive Ordnance disposal came in grabbed the briefcase and disarmed it 12 minutes before it exploded that same day President Nixon ordered the creation of the FAA explosives detection canine team which was transferred to the TSA following its Creation in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11 2001. and through the years we have continued to grow as a program today the TSA trains its dogs to be able to detect dozens of different scents based on recent intelligence unfortunately we're unable to specifically speak to the quantities of explosives that these dogs are trained to find but we want them to be super good at specific explosives based on the threat good puppy good puppy I Like It Puppy after six to eight weeks of working with the trainers the dogs are introduced to their future handlers whom they'll finish the program with handlers in training come from across the country and must meet certain criteria in order to be accepted into the program I'll tell you it's very competitive to get into canine because there's a lot of responsibility seeing our dogs at our airport what they were capable of doing and I was in awe and so I started researching up on them and found out that's definitely what I wanted to partake as my next step in my career handlers get paired with a dog three to four weeks into their training we try to get to know our students in and out and we also know our dogs and what their abilities are they have to be able to rely on each other if you don't have a good pairing between the dog and the Handler it's just not going to work this is Uber he is a two-year-old German Shepherd he's a rambunctious man but he's a cool partner to work with Jessica and ubal are part of the tsa's 16-week passenger screening course which is five weeks longer than the traditional explosives detection course remember the feather walk straight don't let him walk you at an angle walk straight hold your ground hold your ground walk straight very good working in a simulated Airport terminal complete with actors posing as bystanders K-9 teams practice screening passengers for explosive odors that have been placed on certain role players basically we have the Personnel to come through a line we call it cutting awakes so the dog will cut past the person left and right and hopefully pick up whatever odor that they're trained on all right about to bring your odor in once they encounter the odor to train on the Handler will turn around and follow the dog and reward the dog for good behavior let it better let it feather feather speed up for it right cheer him up praise him up doing well on a training I look for two things I look for the drive of the dog is the dog able to commit to follow the person that has whatever it is trained to detect then I watch the Handler's hand says the Handler holding the dog back or the Handler releasing the leash to allow the dog to proceed you control this if he's standing out here and you're not ready hold my line please flip him back around get him how you want him release line and then do your thing the most common mistake is the least control if you walk in your household dog on a leash you let the dog be a dog do whatever you want but when you're doing this type of training with the dog on leash it's a balance of when to have control when not to have control nice nice work nice work good hit they did outstanding again this is on day 13. they throwing these two dogs for 13 days and to be able to allow the dog and read that behavior it's very good handlers and their dogs graduate and are deployed as a team so their ability to work together is crucial it's definitely a lot of fun seeing it click for the dog and watch them learn along with you or with me so it's been a really cool experience the dogs received 24 to 32 weeks of training and roughly 90 percent of all K-9 teams graduate from the Course once they do they'll be deployed to one of the many mass transit sites across the United States ready go work like Gary sterley and Bach see the team graduated from the TSA K-9 Training Center in 2016 and have been working at the Philadelphia International Airport ever since Bach is a nine-year-old flat coated Retriever Shepherd mix he's a goofball he's a character he definitely has a lot to say to everybody he loves people he loves the job he wakes up every morning ready to go he has found ammunition he has found he has found a few things that's really as far as I can go ready kozik God when we're working together I'm focusing on making sure he is productively sniffing the wake of passengers so as they're going by the odor coming off of Passenger the odor plume is coming behind and dropping down to the ground so I'm just watching him watching his nose in his head looking for subtle changes that might indicate that he's picking up on something the team also performs daily training exercises good boy go find it where is it huh where is it so today we had a decoy so we put a training aid on the decoys sent the decoy in with passengers dog pinpoints it good boy box changer Behavior can range depending on the day but when he starts spinning around in a circle when we're working he's on to something he wants to go find it so the dog it's all the same it's a giant game to the dog as long as they think they're going to get the reward they'll go anywhere you tell them to go box part of my family comes home he's with me 24 hours a day even when we go on vacation and he's in the kennel I'm calling the kettle to make sure he's okay stay up ah yes good boy [Music] [Applause]

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