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How many wanted to ? This is my second

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is your second reverse twist to wear

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first deployed to oman that were

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forward deployed to africa after that ?

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That's my second . All right . What is

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your job here ? Uh Currently I'm a

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turret gunner Operating the 50 cow and

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the lead truck driver for reaper one .

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Can you add in there ? Something about

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a quick reaction to you ? Well ,

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because that's ultimately roger . Uh We

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are Qrf that's just um we're usually on

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standby . Just wake up that out . Uh

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Usually we're doing patrols , but when

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we're off , we're on standby for any

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hostile acts on the base or the

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surrounding areas just to respond to .

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Okay , do you like your job ? Yes . I

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like the mission a lot . Um First , you

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know , it's the first time that I've

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been on like this . So it's definitely

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something different . Learn a lot .

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What about the job do you like ? Why do

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you I like the job . You're always

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outside . You're always doing something .

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Um seeing new things . A lot of things

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that , you know , I never would've

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thought I would've saw uh what

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else ? Okay . Um Kind of a difference .

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Do you believe that you're making here ?

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Um I believe the difference would

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probably just getting our faces out

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there showing that in our we're a good

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country . We're here to help and you

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know , it's a slow process , but every

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time we go out there , you know , the

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comfort level with the the local

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nationals grows and we build a

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relationship and soon we're helping

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each other .

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Um how does this , how does doing this

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job make you feel uh really good ? Um

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Like I said , you know I never wrote a

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picture to be in Afghanistan doing what

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we're doing . So you know at the end of

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the day it's another day done feels

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like an accomplishment . You know

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you're deployed so every day , you know

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everyone's when I get a stressful time .

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But overall I feel really good about it .

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Have a really good team teammates .

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Okay .

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Mhm . Mhm .

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Outside I don't pick up the ideal

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better . Okay . Um What kind of things

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do you do while you're on patrol ? Uhh

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well when I'm driving lead truck

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drivers so my T . C . Is usually

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telling me where we're heading . I'm

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getting them there . That's pretty much

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the for the driver part . Um When they

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go on dismounts , we're gonna pull

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security , maintain vigilance of our

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area until they get back to the

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vehicles when I'm a gunner . Um Same

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thing maintaining vigilance lead truck .

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So your , you know , your 1st 1st eyes

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to see what's coming at you , what you

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need to be prepared for for the rest of

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the team behind you uh doing

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during snapped CCPS . Just maintaining

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surveillance , covering our teammates

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while they're doing their jobs . Yeah .

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How how important is it for you to stay

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vigilant . Id says the most important

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thing about our job to stay vigilant .

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Um You know just because at one time

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that you know you might be caught

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slacking off . You know looking the

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other way , not giving it everything

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would be that one time that , you know ,

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something bad is gonna happen .

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What is the difference between day and

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night kind of stuff ? I mean do you do

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the same things that days or do at

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night or his night ? Really watered

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down ? And I'm really just asking this

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to kind sparked the answer . You

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already know the answer obviously , but

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is it the same thing at day as it is at

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night or is night just basically really

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watered down version where you guys

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just kind of go and sit out there and

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not do anything because it's nighttime

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you can't see or it's cold and snow

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during , during the day were strictly

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when I shouldn't say strictly were

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mainly coin . That's just working with

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the , the villages and the people

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trying to build that report with each

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other . Um , you know , sometimes

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giving them what they need from wood

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fuel , stuff like that . Um , nighttime ,

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uh , you know , that's more when the

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risk is , you know , during the cover

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of night . So that's when a lot of the

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snap T . C PS and the patrols are going

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to happen . That's when usually the bad

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guys come out during the day . It's

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more , you know , they're not going to

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risk it . So it's more with the

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villagers and build that report with

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them . Gotcha ,

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what kind of relationships have you

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built over here ?

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Me personally ? I mean , I'm not even

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doesn't have to be like afghani

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relationships like , okay , your

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security forces brethren , right ? Um

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actually getting , you know , I'm from

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shaw first base and currently we're

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working with Kingsley Guard unit out of

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Oregon and couldn't be happier with

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them . They're a great bunch of guys ,

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especially the airman crew . Um we

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always , you know , we're always

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helping each other , looking out for

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each other in every way possible and I

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think we're just a really good fit .

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Makes makes the day a lot smoother .

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Makes the whole deployment a lot

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smoother . Yeah , when you guys are out

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there , I mean , is it , is there any ,

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do you think that there's some kind of

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detachment while you're , while you're

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out there ? You know , it's like the

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guy in front of you is guard , he's not

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your units . You feel a little bit more

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detached from him or you feel like

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since you've been deployed with these

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guys , you're connected on a basis

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where you've got his back Absolutely ,

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you know , there's always gonna be that

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little rivalry going between , you know ,

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guard active duty , you want not , but

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you know , when you're working with a

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team like this in a situation that we

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are , you have to have each other's

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back and then soon it's not , you have

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to , as you want to