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Heartwarming! This sergeant major cheers up hospitalized soldiers by pointing out uniform infractions

KABUL, Afghanistan - A hospital is never a fun place to be, especially for soldiers suffering traumatic injuries at the hands of local forces they trained. That's why 10th Brigade Support Battalion Sgt. Maj. Renaldo Crispin makes it a point to visit these heroes and cheer them up with daily uniform inspections.

Crispin takes time every evening after his duty day is complete, hospital workers say, to spend time with soldiers who may never get to shine their boots to a high gloss or stand in formations ever again.

"Some good order and discipline is just what the doctor ordered!" said Crispin while measuring the sideburns of a soldier who will never walk again. "Just because they are injured doesn't mean we can't have a little fun."

When he isn't reminding soldiers to take their stumps out of their pockets or removing Purple Hearts improperly displayed on Army Combat Uniforms (ACUs), his superiors say he can be found conducting equal opportunity training, nuclear, biological, and chemical classes, or conducting random urinalyses on soldiers' colostomy bags.

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