WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:02.065 And gentlemen , please stand for the 00:02.065 --> 00:03.898 pelting ceremony in honor of the 00:03.898 --> 00:05.953 incoming drill start of the year for 00:05.953 --> 00:07.787 the United States Army Reserve . 00:11.189 --> 00:12.729 You start cat stock post . 00:15.109 --> 00:17.109 The wearing of the pistol belt as a 00:17.109 --> 00:19.276 badge of rank and status can be traced 00:19.276 --> 00:22.149 back to 1944 during World war I I when 00:22.159 --> 00:24.129 the army began issuing pistols to 00:24.139 --> 00:26.379 general officers . Drill sergeants have 00:26.389 --> 00:28.556 been intermittently wearing the pistol 00:28.556 --> 00:30.667 belt since the program's inception in 00:30.667 --> 00:33.830 1964 as an organizational standard to 00:33.840 --> 00:35.784 represent the hardened disciplined 00:35.784 --> 00:38.990 professional . In 1999 the drill 00:39.000 --> 00:41.222 sergeant academy adopted the custom and 00:41.229 --> 00:43.451 over time drill sergeant leaders became 00:43.451 --> 00:45.939 known as the belton ones . Similarly to 00:45.950 --> 00:48.117 drill sergeants . In the initial entry 00:48.117 --> 00:50.172 training enterprise , the custom was 00:50.172 --> 00:52.061 not consistently maintained until 00:52.061 --> 00:54.450 recent years . In 2011 , the drill 00:54.459 --> 00:56.681 sergeant academy reinstated the wearing 00:56.681 --> 00:58.515 of the pistol belt and it is now 00:58.515 --> 01:00.919 codified in trade o regulation 3 50-16 . 01:01.310 --> 01:03.532 The gardening publication for the drill 01:03.532 --> 01:05.643 sergeant program , the pistol belt is 01:05.643 --> 01:07.866 only worn by the drill sergeant academy 01:07.866 --> 01:09.921 commandant , deputy commandant chief 01:09.921 --> 01:12.143 instructor , drill sergeant leaders and 01:12.143 --> 01:13.921 drill sergeant of the year . It 01:13.921 --> 01:15.754 signifies the exemplary behavior 01:15.754 --> 01:17.143 knowledge mentorship and 01:17.143 --> 01:19.366 professionalism required to train every 01:19.366 --> 01:21.643 drill sergeant serving across the army . 01:21.709 --> 01:23.765 The drill sergeant of the year wears 01:23.765 --> 01:25.709 black belt with the drill sergeant 01:25.709 --> 01:27.931 badge on the buckle similar to the belt 01:27.931 --> 01:30.120 that a general officer wears at this 01:30.129 --> 01:32.440 time . Command sergeant major Judd 01:32.449 --> 01:35.269 Moussa will assist Sergeant Naima Kok 01:35.300 --> 01:37.690 with donning her distinctive black belt 01:37.900 --> 01:40.011 signifying that she is commencing her 01:40.011 --> 01:42.069 tenure as the army reserve drill 01:42.080 --> 01:43.358 sergeant of the year . 01:53.569 --> 01:56.389 Additionally , Des soy Cabbage Stock is 01:56.400 --> 01:58.190 officially patched with the 108 01:58.199 --> 02:00.430 training command initial entry training 02:00.440 --> 02:03.760 Golden Griffin signifying her role as 02:03.769 --> 02:05.889 an advocate for all drill sergeants 02:05.900 --> 02:09.820 within the command . Ladies and 02:09.830 --> 02:12.110 gentlemen , I present to you de Soy 02:12.119 --> 02:13.952 Cabbage Stock 108 , the training 02:13.952 --> 02:14.952 command . 02:28.500 --> 02:30.444 All right . Go ahead and take your 02:30.444 --> 02:32.667 seats . What do I do this time ? If you 02:32.667 --> 02:36.449 uh I wanna get a real start of the year 02:36.679 --> 02:38.770 C stock , a chance to talk to you a 02:38.779 --> 02:41.001 little bit about where she comes from , 02:41.001 --> 02:42.946 why she's here . And uh I'm really 02:42.946 --> 02:45.112 looking forward to having you on board 02:45.112 --> 02:47.279 as our start of the year . So everyone 02:47.279 --> 02:49.279 knows this will be this color patch 02:49.279 --> 02:51.501 right here is something that we also do 02:51.501 --> 02:53.668 as part of our on boarding process and 02:53.668 --> 02:52.750 one of the training command and I've 02:52.759 --> 02:54.926 talked to see about this as well and I 02:54.926 --> 02:56.870 think some of them are gonna start 02:56.870 --> 02:59.092 doing it also . But this anytime we get 02:59.092 --> 03:01.315 a new member of the command , we always 03:01.315 --> 03:00.710 put the color patch on for the first 03:00.720 --> 03:02.887 battle assembly weekend , that way the 03:02.887 --> 03:05.000 team can recognize them . So at the 03:05.009 --> 03:07.229 future trade off events , we'll do the 03:07.240 --> 03:09.351 same thing . She will be belt at that 03:09.351 --> 03:11.573 event . We'll belt the new start of the 03:11.573 --> 03:13.518 year and we'll patch them with the 03:13.518 --> 03:15.518 color patch at that event from your 03:15.518 --> 03:17.684 quote . So with all that said , I want 03:17.684 --> 03:19.907 to hand this over to you . Thank you so 03:19.907 --> 03:23.000 much , Doctor Baker . I want to start 03:23.009 --> 03:25.250 off by thanking uh Sergeant Major Musso 03:25.259 --> 03:27.426 for everything he's done to help me as 03:27.426 --> 03:29.426 far as transitioning . I've already 03:29.426 --> 03:31.648 started a few of my decoy duties and he 03:31.648 --> 03:33.979 has been a major help with assisting me 03:33.990 --> 03:36.259 into adjusting into the position . So a 03:36.270 --> 03:38.490 little bit about me , my name is Drill 03:38.500 --> 03:40.619 Sergeant , Cabbage Shaw , uh Sergeant 03:40.630 --> 03:43.500 major already uh talked about it a 03:43.509 --> 03:45.620 little bit . I am a student at Howard 03:45.620 --> 03:48.039 University right now . I am majoring 03:48.050 --> 03:50.619 preme and Friday is my last day as a 03:50.630 --> 03:51.630 student . 03:59.139 --> 04:01.199 Um I also work full time in DC right 04:01.210 --> 04:03.770 now as an EMT . Uh So both of those 04:03.779 --> 04:06.000 have been very great experience in my 04:06.009 --> 04:08.759 civilian career as far as the military , 04:08.770 --> 04:11.470 I joined the army in 04:11.520 --> 04:15.360 2018 . And it was a great 04:15.369 --> 04:17.536 experience from the very beginning . I 04:17.536 --> 04:19.536 was enrolled in drill sergeants . I 04:19.536 --> 04:21.647 joined as a 68 whiskey , but I got to 04:21.647 --> 04:23.591 basic training and I was just like 04:23.591 --> 04:25.591 these drill sergeants are amazing . 04:25.591 --> 04:27.591 They are the standard . So I always 04:27.591 --> 04:29.758 wanted to be one and for the longest , 04:29.758 --> 04:31.980 all I heard for the first few months of 04:31.980 --> 04:33.980 my career was you have to be active 04:33.980 --> 04:36.313 duty to be a drill . Er , so I was like , 04:36.313 --> 04:36.299 ok , maybe one day I'll transition to 04:36.309 --> 04:38.660 the active duty world . So it wasn't 04:38.670 --> 04:41.839 until 2020 . I decided to compete in 04:41.850 --> 04:44.720 best squad . The squad was an amazing 04:44.730 --> 04:46.897 experience and I got to go all the way 04:46.897 --> 04:49.063 to UAR and I met a lot of great people 04:49.149 --> 04:52.329 at U AC . I'm at these lanes and I'm 04:52.339 --> 04:54.172 doing all the competitions and I 04:54.172 --> 04:56.480 noticed that there's a lot of drill 04:56.489 --> 04:58.600 sergeants grading these lanes . And I 04:58.600 --> 05:00.767 was talking to one of my squad members 05:00.767 --> 05:02.878 and I was like , they pulled a lot of 05:02.878 --> 05:04.878 active duty members to come to this 05:04.878 --> 05:07.100 reserve competition . And it was one of 05:07.100 --> 05:09.267 the drill sergeants that overheard the 05:09.267 --> 05:11.378 con uh conversation and was like , we 05:11.378 --> 05:13.545 are not active duty . We're reserves . 05:13.545 --> 05:15.767 And that just sparked a light , sparked 05:15.767 --> 05:17.711 a light in my eyes . So it was the 05:17.711 --> 05:19.933 award ceremony . I went and I talked to 05:19.933 --> 05:19.920 my division sergeant major and I was 05:19.929 --> 05:22.151 like , what do I have to do to become a 05:22.151 --> 05:24.207 general sergeant ? And the following 05:24.207 --> 05:26.262 day , I got a phone call from the 98 05:26.262 --> 05:28.559 division and they were transitioning me 05:28.570 --> 05:30.737 to become a drill sergeant candidate . 05:30.737 --> 05:32.903 I was only 19 at the time and I was so 05:32.903 --> 05:34.959 excited . I know not a lot of people 05:34.959 --> 05:37.126 get that chance in their career . So I 05:37.126 --> 05:39.380 have been a drill sergeant since I've 05:39.390 --> 05:41.557 been a drill sergeant candidate . I've 05:41.557 --> 05:41.540 been in the drill sergeant world since 05:41.549 --> 05:44.269 2020 . And it has been amazing . I am 05:44.279 --> 05:46.250 excited for this deo opportunity 05:46.260 --> 05:48.482 because it is hard to get the full nine 05:48.482 --> 05:50.649 weeks on the trail . So getting out of 05:50.649 --> 05:52.871 college and then transitioning straight 05:52.871 --> 05:55.093 to Fort Jackson . Two days later , I am 05:55.093 --> 05:57.093 super excited . I didn't have a job 05:57.093 --> 05:59.540 lined up . So when I got from the , I 05:59.549 --> 06:03.339 was like abs . Absolutely . Um And so 06:03.350 --> 06:06.739 with my experience , um Deos always 06:06.750 --> 06:09.920 need a plan , a project to work on . 06:09.929 --> 06:13.720 And my experience was enough in itself . 06:13.839 --> 06:16.640 One as a reservist who was always in 06:16.649 --> 06:18.839 everything that was included in the 06:18.850 --> 06:21.072 Reserves . I didn't know that you could 06:21.072 --> 06:23.128 be a drill sergeant . So it makes me 06:23.128 --> 06:25.350 wonder if I'm always learning , finding 06:25.350 --> 06:27.572 out new things about the Reserves . Who 06:27.572 --> 06:29.628 else doesn't know you can be a drill 06:29.628 --> 06:31.683 sergeant because I've met multiple E 06:31.683 --> 06:33.794 sixes E sevens to this day that don't 06:33.794 --> 06:33.679 know you can be in the Reserves and be 06:33.690 --> 06:35.829 a drill sergeant . And then it also 06:35.839 --> 06:38.869 took me to the point of at the best for 06:39.019 --> 06:41.510 our competition . I got the opportunity 06:41.519 --> 06:43.297 of a lifetime to become a drill 06:43.297 --> 06:44.852 sergeant . So young , these 06:44.852 --> 06:47.670 competitions des soy best squad NCO of 06:47.679 --> 06:49.679 the year soldier of the year . They 06:49.679 --> 06:51.679 open up so many doors by the people 06:51.679 --> 06:53.846 that you meet and who you're connected 06:53.846 --> 06:56.230 to . So , by getting it out there and 06:56.239 --> 06:58.350 reaching out to not only one , do you 06:58.350 --> 07:00.572 wanna be a drill star in the Reserves ? 07:00.572 --> 07:02.795 Finding out how we can get that message 07:02.795 --> 07:04.795 out there even better . And two you 07:04.795 --> 07:06.795 should join . If you have all these 07:06.795 --> 07:09.017 dreams and all these ambitions to do in 07:09.017 --> 07:11.128 the Reserves , you need to compete in 07:11.128 --> 07:13.128 these competitions because my squad 07:13.128 --> 07:15.350 became nowhere near winning at the best 07:15.350 --> 07:17.406 squad competition . But all of us uh 07:17.589 --> 07:20.970 spurred into amazing careers after . Um 07:20.980 --> 07:23.147 I know one of my uh squad members , he 07:23.147 --> 07:25.329 immediately joined uh the med school 07:25.339 --> 07:27.790 program right after and then I became a 07:27.799 --> 07:30.021 drill sergeant . There was just so many 07:30.021 --> 07:31.632 opportunities from all these 07:31.632 --> 07:33.799 competitions . So I'm very excited for 07:33.799 --> 07:36.021 that with that piece as the Reserve des 07:36.021 --> 07:38.243 Soy trying to expand the drill sergeant 07:38.243 --> 07:40.243 realm and then letting other people 07:40.243 --> 07:42.355 know about the des soy realm . Um But 07:42.355 --> 07:44.188 I'm also working with the active 07:44.188 --> 07:46.243 component Deos right now . We have a 07:46.243 --> 07:48.466 lot of other small projects coming into 07:48.466 --> 07:50.632 place . I don't know if you've heard . 07:50.632 --> 07:52.688 Um we are implementing tiered badges 07:52.688 --> 07:54.910 for drill sergeants that was officially 07:54.910 --> 07:57.132 given the go . So we are now um pushing 07:57.132 --> 07:59.730 the master badge and the senior badge . 08:00.010 --> 08:02.232 Um We are currently working on what are 08:02.232 --> 08:04.288 the stipulations to receive that and 08:04.350 --> 08:06.461 how long you have to be in to receive 08:06.461 --> 08:08.390 those badges ? Um I don't know if 08:08.399 --> 08:11.440 you've heard the 60th anniversary of 08:11.450 --> 08:13.561 the drill start of the year is coming 08:13.561 --> 08:15.506 up for our competitors who will be 08:15.506 --> 08:17.617 competing shortly . Uh , that will be 08:17.617 --> 08:19.783 in September at the academy . Everyone 08:19.783 --> 08:21.894 is invited . They want as many people 08:21.894 --> 08:24.117 as possible to come . Uh , so it's just 08:24.117 --> 08:26.283 a lot of small things that we're doing 08:26.283 --> 08:28.283 right now and I haven't even gotten 08:28.283 --> 08:30.450 there yet . So I'm very excited to see 08:30.450 --> 08:32.672 what will happen once I get there . But 08:32.672 --> 08:34.783 we'll see where Ro takes me . I think 08:34.783 --> 08:34.390 we'll , we'll .