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captain and grows make this stock from

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the USA . So can you hear me now ? Yes

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ma'am , awesome , awesome .

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Thanks for taking time out of your

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business schedule to talk to us . We

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actually have a cadet here . I'm just

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gonna come up to the podium . Who would

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like to ask you a few questions ? Hello

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captain and girls . My name is john

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Corbett . I'm the first sergeant Gerald

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T . C . Unit of thomas still high

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school here in Virginia . You're a US

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state . Ask you a few questions because

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I've been wondering how it is over

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there . Could you give me a general or

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a brief description of how that is over

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there for you ? Life for me and kuwait

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is very similar to life and shaw Air

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Force Base . Working for third Army . I

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work for an army staff planning unit .

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The majority of my work is done in an

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office uh an office environment with

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multiple other officers and N . C . O .

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S . Planning operations , movements ,

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anything that's necessary . Uh As far

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as living accommodations it's

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comfortable here uh what can be

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expected from an overseas deployment

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but it's comfortable and were well

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taken care of .

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Do you ever execute missions or things

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that you organize in the office

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currently ? No not while I'm assigned

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to this section , I will occasionally

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have to engage certain pieces of the

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mission directly . But very rarely do I

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have to execute from this current

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job .

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When you graduate high school , did you

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go to college , you go straight into

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the military . I went to college for

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two years and was involved in ROTC .

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Then I left , enlisted in the army ,

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spent about nine years enlisted and

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then I attended docs

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officer candidate school at Fort

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Benning Georgia .

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It's good .

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How do you stay in touch with your

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family back at home ? Uh , being

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stationed here in kuwait , it is fairly

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easy to stay in contact . We have

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internet access . I talked to my wife

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just about every day , uh , either

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through email or on the phone as well

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as my boys at least a couple of times a

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week .

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Do you come into contact with any other

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people of kuwait ? Very rarely do

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I have contact with any of the kuwaiti

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citizens ? Occasionally ,

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when I'm working with some of the

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multinational coalition forces that are

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here , I'll have to go off base and

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engage some of the supplies or services

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that those units need , but very rarely

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have been in the service . I've been in

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for 19 years now ,

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tha

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thank you

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for your time . I appreciate what

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you're doing over there . I really do

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have to go see my other cadets and

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you'll be back on the bus by the time ,

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you know , it's hard to see you next

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time and good luck to you out there .

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Thank you very much

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for being again . It was nice to talk

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to you .

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All right , captain and girls , major

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stuff . Um , thank you for your time .

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It's actually like lunchtime here . So

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the crowd is kind of like a little slim

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though . But um , thank you for taking

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the time out to show up by David system .

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And it showed that we can do that live

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feedback . And we actually watched your

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interview as well . I know you don't

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think the camera was , but we , we can

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actually see you on this end as you

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conducted your interview with the

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newspaper . But you did a good job .

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You did a good job , but we appreciate

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your time and good luck over there and

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uh , come home safe . I appreciate it ,

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man .