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First Sergeant . First Sergeant , kevin

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Loomis with the 40th army band um Job

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title is basically First Sergeant . I

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manage people that's our First

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Sergeants . Do they take care of the

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people and they manage the people . Um

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we have input as far as um strategical

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um planning and things like that . But

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mostly what I do is manage the people .

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Can I just get this phone of your name ?

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Absolutely kevin K E V I N . Loomis , L

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O M I S uh We got a mission about 10

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o'clock at night . We had the we had

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the day of waiting for a mission ,

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nothing was coming down the pike and

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then at 10 o'clock we got task to go

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over and help unload the fema trucks

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that were rolling in . So we got over

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there , we provided light for them . We

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brought over our generator are

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spotlights , we brought over LM TVs

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that we had to provide lights which we

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ended up not needing because we flooded

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the light well enough with our

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spotlights and and just help them

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unload the trucks . We worked right

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around the clock . This is what we're

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trained to do and we are we are Qrf

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mission and it was just a wonderful

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thing to go down and be a part of this .

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And the stress we didn't feel so much

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when we got down there to these

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locations and met the people unloading

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the trucks and all that . It took care

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of any stress that we had and it was

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just , it was a wonderful thing to

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occur while we were there all with open

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arms . They were just so relieved to

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see us and very happy to have the

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supplies were bringing them . The

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biggest demand that I found out there

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was water . Everybody wanted water .

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The next thing where meals ready to eat ,

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what we call in the army memories ,

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they come in boxes and there's an

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automatic little heater in there , you

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add water to , it , heats the food up

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and it's a meal ready to go . And we

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saw lots of those , we gave out lots of

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those and those were in very high

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demand as well . After that would be

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caught some blankets and types those

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are all the supplies that we brought

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down . A sense of relief , just a sense

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of being able to help somebody . Um

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because there's nothing greater , I

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don't think then something that's a

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need that really could use our help and

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we're there and we're ready and we have

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what we can do for them . Um So that

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was , it was very satisfying . I

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believe it was West Wethersfield . If I

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recall there , we found that the

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people bring out their barbecue grills

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and they were barbecuing food for the

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town . They would just set up these

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barbecue grills and do hammers and corn

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on the cob and all this and just invite

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the townfolk over . So people just drop

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by and have food and the people that

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were there barbecuing or the people

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that didn't lose their homes and things

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like that and they just came in with

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all their stuff and they're just

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setting up and and and feeding the town .

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And I thought that was really nice that

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really touched the heart , you know ,

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when you see something like that .