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Each year , West Point brings rising

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high school seniors to West Point to

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experience the life of a cadet . They

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live in the barracks , they eat in the

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mess hall , they go to academic classes

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taught by West Point instructors . They

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spend a day out doing military training ,

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they handle live weapons , they shoot

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blanks , They crawl through the mud ,

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they apply face paint and they get a

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sense of whether life as a cadet at

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West Point is right for them . Uh

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whether or not they want to serve in

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the military . Out of the 1100 high

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school students that attend sle

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Between 150 and 180 Cadet candidates as

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we call them will seek medical care In

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one way or another . Since 2016 we

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started bringing in Army Reserve Medics ,

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doctors and nurses without them . We

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absolutely couldn't run this kind of a

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program as safely as we have done it .

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On the Army Reserve side . The Army

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Reserve gains real world medical

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treatment . It's not a simple F . T . X .

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Or C . S . T . X . Where it's patient

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play , They're practicing real world

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medicine here and treating real life

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patients . So I came in , I felt really

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nauseous like I was about to pass out

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and that happened for most of the

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morning . So my squad later took me

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over to the med van and they sent me

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down . They helped me out very fast

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being treated by them and especially

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feeling so cared for . They made me

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feel like I was a friend to them . It

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really just helped boost my morale for

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them . The impact is before

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West Point did not know anything about

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the med or the Army Reserves Today .

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The superintendent of West Point has

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said , we cannot live without the Army

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Reserve and the Army Reserve . Amen .

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It's a force multiplier . It keeps

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these cadet candidates engaged in the

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fight . And what do we want to do in

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the Amen , treat the soldier as far

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forward as possible and return them to

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the fight and they can continue

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training here .