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during the interview man . You were

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just you interact with very good ,

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ignore the camera . All right . So

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first can I get you state your rank .

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First last name . Sure . Rear Admiral

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Margaret in your chaplain of the Marine

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Corps in your hometown . Warrington

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pennsylvania . It's been so long since

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it was my hometown . I actually live in

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alexandria Virginia now . All right .

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So why did you come out here that

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coming from ? Well , I couldn't think

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of any place better to be . Uh No ,

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seriously I came out because part of

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being the chapel Marine Corps is to

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connect with the chaplains , the RPS

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and with the marines and sailors who

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are out here as the chapel in the

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Marine Corps . It really is an honor to

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serve in this role and in this role I

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have the privilege to support and care

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and pray for each one of the marines

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and sailors who are here in the area

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and who are on the front lines and to

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be able to be there with them and

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support and care and pray for them is

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really the reason I'm here fortunately

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I was able to come on the comrades trip

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and baton of itself has afforded me the

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opportunity to come out and see not

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just leatherneck but several other

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fathers and cops along the way . All

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right . So yeah , why particular did

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you make time to talk with submarines ?

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Yeah , well , I had the real privilege

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when I was in visit english union

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october to meet with that particular

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team before they left . I had actually

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requested it . Which is kind of gets to

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what your question was about . I feel

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very strongly about what the mission of

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the fat team is . It's a different

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element of military engagement .

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You know , it's one thing to be able to

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come in and to secure a town and to

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ensure that the taliban doesn't have

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the opportunity to encroach upon the

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living conditions . But it's quite

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another to relate to the afghans and

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for in order for this mission to

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succeed , there's gotta be a

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relationship and that relationship is

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going to help them to trust you know ,

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the military , specifically the

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american military , but it's also going

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to help them to trust the efforts that

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diplomatically we're trying to make it

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is going to help that transition from a

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military environment to a diplomatic

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environment to in fact where they'll be

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able to to sustain themselves . The fat

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team , I think in particular is crucial

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to that because the women have an

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opportunity that a lot of the men will

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never have , partly because there is a

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lot of machismo here in Afghanistan and

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nobody wants to lose face , but nobody

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does lose face if everybody's on board

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with the women marines , what they've

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been able to do is connect with the

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women of Afghanistan and then those

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women talk to their husbands and their

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husbands kind of begin to trust from a

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different level what the military is

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doing . One of the things I shared with

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this group here the site this evening

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is that I am the fat team . I am

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so committed to what the fat teams are

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doing and they are in fact my heroes

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and they're my heroes for this reason ,

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for my , for my feeling there are two

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kinds of courage . There's a courage

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that enables a marine to put on a

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uniform and all the gear that goes with

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it , you know , and to walk into a

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hostile territory and and to perform

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what in fact is a very kinetic mission .

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That takes an awful lot of courage to

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do that . These women do that and then

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they do something else . There's this

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other level of courage that's the

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courage that enables them to kind of

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step back from that role and go into

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somebody else's environment and get to

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know who they are . That takes an awful

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lot of personal courage . It's not just

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professional courage , but it's

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personal courage because you're

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actually sharing a part of yourself

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when you in fact walk into somebody

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else's home and to be willing to risk

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that for me I think is such an

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incredibly honorable action that they

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are in fact by your wrist and

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you know what I'm saying ? I think you

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just covered everything great . Is

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there anything else you want to add in

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about your visit here or about you

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talking to that tonight ? Well for me

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it comes kind of full circle . In fact

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one of the fat teams out in one of the

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places I did this morning said that .

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But you know , I saw them before they

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left , I'm seeing in honor of them

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before they go home . And for that ,

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for me it's full circle for them . They

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felt the same way . And that's really

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an honor to be able to see them when

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they were just beginning this , this uh

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experience and now hearing some of

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their stories . And and for me that

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allows a better picture of how crucial

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this mission is . You know , the Marine

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Corps has such diversity to it . And

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women are a part of that diversity .

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There's a there's diversity of race ,

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there's diversity of religion . You

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know , the Marine Corps represents the

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face of America . And if Afghanistan

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can see the face of America and they

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will begin to see that that faces is

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one to be trusted . It's one that

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enables people to be who they are and

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that they don't have to to negotiate

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with terrorists or anything else just

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to have survival but to allow them to

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be who they are , trusting those who

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are out there to help them . That's

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what I think is so critical about what

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the Marine Corps does . Yeah , Yeah .

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No , that's it . You're

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thank you . Thank

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you help when you believe in what

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you're talking about