WEBVTT 00:04.340 --> 00:08.260 And when did you ? 00:08.740 --> 00:10.851 Could you pretty much just go through 00:10.851 --> 00:13.073 your history with the navy for me sir . 00:13.840 --> 00:16.520 I joined the US Navy back in 00:16.530 --> 00:20.510 2004 , 2004 . I was a machinist 00:20.510 --> 00:23.190 made on Bolivia's boxer . Didn't for 00:23.190 --> 00:26.600 about three years . Got commissioning , 00:26.610 --> 00:30.550 do the chap candidacy program In 2007 00:31.340 --> 00:33.750 Came on actively as actively Navy 00:33.750 --> 00:37.170 chaplain . In March of 2010 . I'm 00:37.170 --> 00:40.070 stationed at Marine Corps base camp in 00:40.070 --> 00:42.760 California assigned to the 10 assault 00:42.760 --> 00:44.880 infinite school attack in there . You 00:44.880 --> 00:48.060 can't get along . And this is my first 00:48.640 --> 00:51.540 to around here . It's a check . I don't 00:51.550 --> 00:54.230 think so . The server and I'm 00:54.230 --> 00:56.820 supporting RCT southwest . 00:59.040 --> 01:02.870 All right sir . And would you mind 01:02.870 --> 01:04.814 going through you know what you do 01:04.814 --> 01:07.148 today and what you'll be doing tomorrow ? 01:07.540 --> 01:11.380 Well today we met with any our ceo 01:11.390 --> 01:14.010 officers . We had a good discussion . 01:15.340 --> 01:19.280 B and that's what they do a longer 01:19.280 --> 01:21.750 than a second time out here in our city . 01:22.540 --> 01:25.730 Um Tomorrow we'll be going on 01:26.840 --> 01:29.450 it's friday . So we don't have the 01:29.460 --> 01:33.270 jewel operators with the guys and 01:33.270 --> 01:35.326 then later in the afternoon would be 01:35.326 --> 01:38.750 going up to be talking to the people 01:38.750 --> 01:42.480 out there . Never natural . So we'll be 01:42.480 --> 01:45.130 talking with the locals and that's what 01:45.130 --> 01:48.020 we'll be doing tomorrow . Okay . And 01:48.020 --> 01:50.353 this sure you're having with the locals ? 01:50.353 --> 01:53.650 What will be discussed there ? Um It's 01:53.650 --> 01:55.372 an open discussion or whatever 01:55.372 --> 01:58.140 questions they have . It's an 01:58.140 --> 02:00.251 opportunity for them to get a feel of 02:00.251 --> 02:03.590 what muslim chaplain is 02:04.140 --> 02:07.270 what any man does , how he can be a 02:07.270 --> 02:09.620 part of the U . S . Armed forces to the 02:09.620 --> 02:13.240 muslim being hurt at the same time . 02:13.240 --> 02:15.640 It's an opportunity for me to the 02:15.640 --> 02:19.260 bottom what's going on their 02:19.260 --> 02:22.860 lives . Yes sir . And 02:25.140 --> 02:27.630 I don't think change their minds will 02:27.630 --> 02:29.741 be the right words . But do you think 02:29.741 --> 02:31.852 you'll be able to enlighten them ? Um 02:31.852 --> 02:33.963 It will be an enlightening experience 02:33.963 --> 02:37.740 too for them . Yes , of course . Yeah . 02:37.750 --> 02:41.460 They have never giving 02:41.470 --> 02:44.960 her life . It's you have to understand 02:45.540 --> 02:47.940 from the culture that they live in the 02:47.940 --> 02:50.051 length that they are seeing through . 02:51.240 --> 02:55.100 Yeah , we're seeing this . It's unique 02:55.110 --> 02:57.166 to our nation , its unique culture . 02:59.340 --> 03:01.173 So you need to the United States 03:01.640 --> 03:03.960 diversity makes and I appreciate your 03:03.960 --> 03:07.390 resume . B and for somebody like me , 03:07.400 --> 03:09.511 an opportunity to be able to practice 03:09.511 --> 03:12.950 my faith , be a part of armed forces of 03:12.950 --> 03:16.230 our country . And so as a matter of his 03:16.230 --> 03:19.960 most super . And 03:22.540 --> 03:24.762 You're one of three Muslim chaplains in 03:24.762 --> 03:26.929 the navy , correct sir ? Yes . I'm one 03:26.929 --> 03:28.984 of the three Muslim chaplains and 80 03:29.840 --> 03:31.896 station on the west coast and in the 03:31.896 --> 03:35.750 pacific region . Okay . So is this 03:35.750 --> 03:37.806 kind of this experience for you ? Is 03:37.806 --> 03:40.690 this kind of a unique one for yourself ? 03:40.690 --> 03:42.912 Are you looking forward to this , sir ? 03:42.912 --> 03:45.079 Yes , I'm looking forward to this . It 03:45.079 --> 03:47.134 is indeed a unique experience . It's 03:47.134 --> 03:49.301 something that every child has to be . 03:49.540 --> 03:51.890 It's a baseball what we do is challenge , 03:52.640 --> 03:56.600 support our service members at the same 03:56.600 --> 03:58.860 time . If I can do anything to support 04:00.440 --> 04:04.060 operations here . Oh And eight 04:04.070 --> 04:07.450 billion rich . Yeah . People in , 04:08.640 --> 04:12.350 Yeah . The members of enforces out here . 04:13.340 --> 04:15.820 It's always good . All right sir , 04:16.000 --> 04:18.056 could you tell me some of the topics 04:18.056 --> 04:20.389 that were discussed at the Sure you had , 04:20.940 --> 04:23.107 Well , we discussed about , you know , 04:23.107 --> 04:25.273 people , first of all , they wanted to 04:25.273 --> 04:27.440 ask me a few questions about Islam and 04:27.440 --> 04:29.662 they wanted to make sure that I'm truly 04:29.662 --> 04:31.940 a muslim and they have , you know , um , 04:31.940 --> 04:35.240 then we moved on to questions about , 04:35.250 --> 04:37.306 you know , their frustrations of our 04:37.306 --> 04:39.528 daily life and what they think about us 04:39.528 --> 04:42.380 being out here and our role in 04:42.380 --> 04:46.170 Afghanistan , in how we can 04:46.180 --> 04:49.470 best help the any and the p 04:50.050 --> 04:53.000 getting on his feet to be able to help 04:53.010 --> 04:56.460 the locals . Yes , sir . And 04:56.940 --> 04:59.273 all in all . Do you think it was a good , 04:59.273 --> 05:01.580 a good endeavor ? I think it was a good 05:01.580 --> 05:05.250 experience for quote for us and for 05:05.250 --> 05:07.417 them it was a good experience for them 05:07.417 --> 05:09.472 to see . Yeah , muslim , mm . In the 05:09.472 --> 05:11.970 uniform . Yeah . Be able to talk . And 05:11.980 --> 05:14.202 my thought in the beginning , there was 05:14.202 --> 05:16.258 some skepticism later on , they were 05:16.258 --> 05:19.380 able to open up and that's because a 05:19.390 --> 05:22.950 lot of things . And 05:23.440 --> 05:25.950 uh , I pose the question , 05:28.740 --> 05:32.260 um , is there anything else you would 05:32.260 --> 05:34.316 like to touch on , sir ? Something I 05:34.316 --> 05:36.371 didn't really , I think , you know , 05:36.371 --> 05:38.482 these kind of engagements . We , uh , 05:38.482 --> 05:40.816 we should do it on a regular basis . Uh , 05:40.940 --> 05:42.996 it's the people that we want to hear 05:42.996 --> 05:45.690 from . We want , we want to know , uh 05:45.690 --> 05:48.610 huh , how , how the receivers and uh , 05:48.620 --> 05:50.676 you know , what we're doing is going 05:50.676 --> 05:52.898 well and what's not going so well so we 05:52.898 --> 05:54.731 can improve on those and we , we 05:54.731 --> 05:56.676 constantly look out for that and I 05:56.676 --> 05:57.560 think we should continue to do so .