SSG Smith is a master fitness trainer and trained equal opportunity representative. His career management field is 92 series and serves as an Active Guard Reserve (AGR) supply sergeant for a signal company. During the last AGR promotion board, the board members selected SSG Smith for promotion to SFC and attendance to ANCOC. SSG Smith recently took a record Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) and scored 300 points. SSG Smith takes pride in his performance during company and battalion runs and wears the physical fitness badge on his improved physical fitness uniform (IPFU). For months, rumors spread around the battalion that they would receive a mobilization order within the next few months and deploy for 18 months somewhere between Kuwait and Iraq. Some soldiers started preparing for the possible deployment while others made contact with the signal unit currently deployed in Kuwait. This would the first time the battalion moved out as a whole unit for a period longer than one month. Tension began to build and a few soldiers started to put together medical packets as to why they could not deploy with the unit. SSG Smith was one of these soldiers....

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