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you told me your rank first and last

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name and then spell your first and last

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name for cobalt or joe florrick . F L .

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O R E . K . My maiden name was Stewart

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which is what everyone knows . Mia is

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back home . S . O E U R . T . And the

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tories . That would I tr Yes . Okay .

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What do you actually do ? Um This is

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indeed a little bit of detail . What's

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your job actually consists of ? I work

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in the review section at the law center .

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We review the cases for courts martial

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whether it's a summary or a special or

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general . We also do N . J . P .

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Appeals and appellate leaves . Okay

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and how long have you been in the

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Marine Corps ? I have been in the

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Marine Corps three years come January .

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Right and then what

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uh or why did you choose to serve in

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the Marine corps ? It's actually

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something I always wanted to do . I

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knew I wanted to be a marine when I was

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in elementary school but it just kind

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of went to the background and then my

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brother joined and that inspired me to

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do something with my life And then

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since you've been in , have you ever

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deployed ? I have not but you are

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scheduled right now to be on the

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upcoming second marine aircraft

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pointing forward deployment to

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Afghanistan . Yes . What are you going

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to be doing with them ? Un deployment ?

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I will be doing my actual job . The

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legal services specialists . I will be

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working directly for one of my officers .

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I will be accompanying him over to

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Afghanistan . Okay . How do you feel

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about the actual deployment ? I'm

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actually very excited . I know it's

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gonna be rough but it's going to test

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me as an individual and as a marine . I

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can't wait . Car .

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The one I have here and you're , you

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originally grew up in uh Terre haute

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indiana . Okay . And your family's

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still from there ? Yes . Okay .

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And aside from upcoming deployment ,

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what's been the hardest part about

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being away from family during , during

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the holidays and stuff ? During the

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holidays ? Because we're a very holiday

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oriented family . It's just I know

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everything that I missed back home .

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The dinner is the breakfast , the

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presence just visiting because that's

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when we all really get together . Is

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the holidays Okay . And what did you do

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previously during thanksgiving this

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year ? This year I went uh up to

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pennsylvania with my husband to visit

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the in laws . So that was a pleasure .

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And what are you planning to do for

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christmas this year ? This year ? I'm

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actually gonna get to go home . Okay .

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Can't wait . And then is there anything

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else you'd like to say to your family

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back home ? I want to say hi to my mama .

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Hi to Bill . Um my best friend Kristin

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her two kids peanut and day day and

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just all my extended family and friends .

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I love you all