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first of all , why don't you tell us

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uh what your mission is there and

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what you're kind of day to day routine

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has been like can you repeat

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that ? Sure , can you tell us what your

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job is there and what your day to day

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routine has been like sure I

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am a medic that has been tasked to

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the 3 30 seconds captive . Uh We

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transport patients um from the

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Air Force field hospital to aircraft to

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be sent on to launch tool and then on

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to the state .

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Okay so it's

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uh it's every day a little bit

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different or can you describe what it's

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what it's like for you ? Um

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It differs from day to day just

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because of the different patients that

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we see ? Um It can get

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the same where if we

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if we're low on patients low incentive

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um then we just kind of wait around for

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um things to happen which you know , we

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really don't want things to happen but

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when they do then then it's that uh you

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know reaction . So you're

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treating mostly our military people .

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Are you also meeting , are you also

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treating some of the people um the

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native people as well ? Uh We

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actually do treat um our coalition

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forces as well as um Iraqi nationals um

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in the hospital here ? Uh So we do see

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we do see it all . Mhm wow .

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And uh did you have uh experience as a

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medic here in the U . S . Does it

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compare it all to you know what you're

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doing now ? Yeah . Uh I do I

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worked at Madigan Army Hospital

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and some of the injuries I mean you

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have multi system traumas um

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But obviously how those traumas

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happen are are different so you just

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you just react to the individual at the

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time . Okay

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um Can you talk a little bit about your

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family ? I understand your husband

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Andre and you have a son or are they

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still back to your home ? Yeah . Uh My

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son is uh he's here in Seattle and my

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mother and my sisters , all my family's

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there . Um My husband just moved to

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Colorado where he's finishing his

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graduate work . So he's in transition

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themselves . Oh wow . And how how

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how are you guys doing keeping it um

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keeping it together and uh keeping in

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contact with each other and with your

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son , we do um we have email

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so we get to communicate as as often as

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as commission allows . Um

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And you know you just you just do what

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you what you have to and um just

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sometimes you have to put home out of

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your mind and stay focused on the

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mission here . Um But you know when

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when we do get to call and we do get to

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communicate it's really really nice .

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How often do you get to talk with your

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son or keep in touch with him ? Yeah

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well because we're 12 hours

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apart , 12 or 13 hours apart . Um It's

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generally that's difficult because he's

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in school daycare and that type of

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thing so um it's hard to protect him

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but um my family um my mom and my

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sisters I can talk to as often

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as like I've got his submission allowed .

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Yeah I'm sorry . And and how old is

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your son ? Is he in elementary school ?

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He is , he's in Russia at elementary

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school , he's seven um tamari

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and here in second

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grade there . Oh that's

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that's great . Um Can you tell us a

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little bit about uh how you you're

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hoping to wrap up your time there and

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come back home if you have any timing

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for that ? Um I'm just

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halfway through my tour here so um I

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haven't really started thinking about

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going home yet . Um It's kind of easier

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just to put that out of your mind and

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focus being here and doing what we have

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to get done here . I'm sure as time

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gets closer that I'll start getting

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that kind of your intended to get

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there but right now I just I pretty

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much put it out of my mind . Yeah

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that's understandable . Are there

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things that you miss about the Seattle

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area besides here ? We'll never went as

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your family but tell us what else when

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we've done these interviews , it's you

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know it's interesting to hear what

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everybody misses the most . Um We

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miss the coffee . Um We do have

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somebody that works at Starbucks . Um

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So we we do every now and then get

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shipments but um coffee is one of our

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main staples here and the green . I

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miss the greenery , the mountains . Um

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It's fairly very here and so that

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clean air . I miss that the most .

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Yeah . Dad , what would you like to say

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Hello to your family and go

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ahead . Okay . Um Hi

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tamari um Mom and Helen and Mark and

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Grey Lynn and everybody um everybody

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take care . I'm doing well having a

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great time and I'm just really

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appreciate Cairo for doing this . Mhm .

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Well it's really our pleasure . So

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thank you and thank you for all you all

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are doing for our country there . We

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are really grateful and we're very

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proud of you . So thank you . Thank you .

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Okay take care . Bye bye . Okay you

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too .