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Yeah . Today we had our polar plunge in

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kuwait at camp Sheriff john uh $10 and

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I have been putting this together for

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quite some time and we just had 100 and

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25 or so . People jump into a pool of

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ice cold water after running a five K

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in a full and complete sentence there .

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What does it mean for the people to

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participate in this event ? Especially

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being so remarkable . Well , we put

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this event together back in bloomington

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Minnesota because Ryan dollar and I

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were talking about mw are ideas that

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really truly were Minnesota and

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something that you don't find

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everywhere else . And we decided that

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the polar plunge actually Ryan decided

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the polar plunge was a way to to

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certainly bring this back home and I

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guess we took it from there . Megan

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Powell . Certainly at polar plunge made

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this happen for us . Yes ,

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mm . Yeah .

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My rocking again . You're cute .

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Mhm Yeah .

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Diesel . Cool . Okay .

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Five years .

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I can't go . He

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explained what the soldiers jumped into

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and the pallet of ice and all that good

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stuff process going to work today . We

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started at six a.m. Told everybody what

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we were here for . Thank everybody for

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coming . We had 100 25 people show up

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after they are in a five K . Or on the

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perimeter of zone six . They stopped

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here , took their Shoes and that kind

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of stuff off last night at about 1700 .

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We filled a bladder behind me full of

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3000 gallons of water and five

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correction . 300 bags of ice . 300 bags

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of ice . It's about £1500 total of ice .

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I tested it out last night , decided it

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was plenty cold enough And this morning

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after everybody got done running , they

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basically single filed up there . Ryan

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Oliver here was our lifeguard on call .

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Uh , they jumped in one at a time ,

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climbed out and got their t shirt . Yes .

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Mhm

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I think the smile's frozen on my face .

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I know . Yeah . Oh ,

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very little . Yeah . You can say , I

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don't see a red light off . Well that's

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because it's hooked up to here . They

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might be , I think they're capturing it .

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Whoever is productive , the man carol

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and the Minnesota tier to be

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participating in the event that is held

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at home and it kind of connects . Well ,

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like I said earlier when Ryan , I came

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up when Ryan came up with this idea

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back home . It was , it was a no

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brainer . It's something we don't do

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anywhere else in the world . Really . I

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know , I know the polar plunges hosted

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elsewhere but certainly is unique to

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Minnesota . Uh , at least we feel it is .

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And because of that , it's certainly

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something that brings us home , we're

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about 90 days out from going home and

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we know this is just one more step ,

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One more thing that we get to do to

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look forward to going home . Uh , there

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are a lot of people , some recruiters

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and that kind of thing that have done

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this in the past at home . Ryan has

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done this at home . So for him , this

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is totally uh something that he would

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be doing at home and that's really what

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takes us . That's why we did this .

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It's it's a part of Minnesota and a

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part of the Red Bull brigade . Uh this

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is my fourth year doing this polar

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plunge and I just wanted to maintain

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the tradition and continuity and look

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forward to doing it again next year in

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Maple Grove . Well done , well done .

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Yeah . Do they see the breath

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you can't actually ?

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Okay . Mhm . You both take

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turns talking about how long it took to

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plan this and all the ideas that went

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in . Well , it

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took uh at least three months to , to

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put all this together from coordinating

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t shirt sizes for the nice t shirts

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that were sent over to uh uh ,

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organizing the Bolivia is what the

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containers called . Uh it also took a

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little bit of ingenuity since it was a

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little bit larger than we anticipated .

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Uh we had to kind of do a little bit of

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improvisation . So Yeah , yesterday was

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the culmination of about 4-5 months

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where they work . It started when we

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were home . Uh we really got serious

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about it when back in October October

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ISH and then back in October it seemed

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like it was forever away . We had all

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the time in the world . Uh did a lot of

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coordination with an awesome woman back

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home named Megan Powell works for the

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special olympics . And the Polar plunge .

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She's the one that coordinated the t

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shirts for us . She's the one that has

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gotten us all of the polar plunge

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paraphernalia . And without her , we

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really couldn't have made this happen .

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She's also the one that got his

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permission to do this here . And the

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chain of command is certainly certainly

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supported us here from this are major

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to the brigade commander to our

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battalion commander . Everybody in

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between and the soldiers have been

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awesome . We've had a lot of people

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express to us just how great this is to

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do something that they can't do unless

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they're at home . And here we are here

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in kuwait doing it . So it's been it's

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been a long journey . We're glad to

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have it done today . Now we're into the

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recovery phase .

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One more time . Is Sergeant , you talk

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about the money that was raised for the

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event , How you guys went about doing

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that . I don't think so . Well curl

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also is the one that's bringing it up .

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So okay . Ah We haven't , the

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fundraising hasn't been a big part of

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what we're doing here . This really was

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an M . W . R . Event for us . Morale ,

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welfare and recreation , recreation .

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We did this to tie to something back

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home . One of the secondary things that

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we were able to do . There have been a

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few of us , probably half a dozen to

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eight people that we created a team on

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the polar plunge website . Uh several

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of us uh Ryan and sorry major

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specifically they raised a little over

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$800 between them . I think the teams

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up to 1518 $100 this morning . Just

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over 1600 when I looked this morning

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before the plunge . $1600 this morning .

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So that's awesome . Thanks to all the

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family members and friends back home

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that have helped us raise that money

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for a great cause the special olympics

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certainly deserves our best effort .

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Mhm . All we're missing is the big

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white bear . Uh huh .

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Yeah ,

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he has no body fat . See I'm good .

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Well why is it important to keep up the

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morale of the truth of events like this ?

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Believe it ramp it up . We've been here

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a while , We're 2/3-3 quarters of the

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way through our deployment right now .

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And normally this is this is my third

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time overseas . Uh it's about the time

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that people start to get complacent

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people start to kind of lose the drive

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the motivation for what brought them

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here . We've still got a lot of work to

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do this . The change from bringing

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people out of Iraq now uh were you know ,

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security partnership with Kuwait and

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all the other nations that are around

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us that's important stuff and this

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event helps us kind of pause , take

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stock , do something wild and wacky and

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then get back to work . It's kind of an

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icebreaker . if you will . Something

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that gets us back going , puts us back

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on task , a pause in the action if you

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will . I think overall it helps with

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the resiliency , resilience or

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thanks .

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That was the big obligatory security

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cooperation for sergeant hoke .

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Mhm . Yeah . Can

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you tell her your rank the old name and

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spelling ? Master Sergeant brian

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newcomer ? B R I A N N E

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W C O M E R First

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Lieutenant Ryan . R Y A N . Deliver .

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D O L I B E R .

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What's your title part ? Your title

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your the on the Operations in SEO

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For the S three and I am the event

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coordinator for this event . She

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said we have six , she said for the

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event for the event to bring officials ,

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then I guess we're co coordinators and

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trying to keep official titles . Mhm .