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this and you're in , your state takes a ,

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my state's names . It's an honor to be

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serving on a boat . That was named

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after my home state . I was born in

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California born and raised . And so

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it's like this vote is my home away

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from home almost . And it's very

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exciting to be working on a newly

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commissioned vessels . I'm sure not a

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lot of people would go through what I'm

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going through right now and it feels

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like I'm a part of history . Yeah .

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The word to be able to condition this

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ship . Uss California . That's the

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truth be told . That was actually the

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guiding factor when I chose this . Bill

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it out of a school . And it's just ,

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you know , if I can't be home ? It's

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nice to be a part of the , attached to

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a command . That's curious . My state's

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namesake and uh , family back in

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California ? I do . What do they think

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about you ? Oh , my mom is very

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supportive , very enthusiastic . My

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cousins , they all , they all think

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it's cool that I'm on a submarine

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period . So they've got a million

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questions all the time and what I can't

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answer right ? Doing what I can't just

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after a mysterious and they just get

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greeted for more great thing very much .

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Thank you California . Why are you

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excited about it ? What brought you

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here ? I was born in California . You

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know , I only spent my first seven

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years there . But I mean that was

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always home . That's where all my

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relatives were and everything . So I

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kept going back there . And it was just

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an opportunity for me to be have

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something at home because san Diego

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wasn't available so that you can go to

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California . I said that's an excellent

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idea . And uh so tell me a little bit

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about what kind of thinks you're

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looking . Yeah . Uh well at first it

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was a precondition unit , so I was

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looking forward to having some time uh

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without going to see my son was just

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born . So I was looking forward to

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spend a year there and just to try to

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make something of a new crew and

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everything and try to uh you know ,

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improve what I've seen out there in the

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fleet elsewhere for the ground up .