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my name is Captain Gregory Fin , G R E

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G O R Y S . I and N .

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I am uh I'm with the HFC two 77th .

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Aviation support going and what you're

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reading . I am a captain

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man . 03 , Okay . How long have you

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been in Afghanistan ? Mm

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Uh pretty much the same amount of time .

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Everybody else has been right around 11

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months going on 12 . So obviously

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you're going to be coming home in the

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next few weeks . What's your reaction

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to that ? Uh Actually I'm pretty

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excited about it . Uh if the timing

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works out right , I should make it home

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just in time for my ninth uh nine year

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wedding anniversary of my wife .

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Congratulations . Can you

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thank you man . Um what would you like

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to say to your family right now have it

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like that ? Well , I would like to say

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thank you to my wife and kids for all

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the love and support they've given me

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since I've been over here . Um it's

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been worry free for me on this end . Um

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I'm confident in my wife's hand on

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everything back home and I wish my wife

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joy , my daughter Abigail and my son

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Caleb the best for over the holiday

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season , merry christmas and a happy

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new year . What is your job in the

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military right now in Afghanistan ? Mhm .

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Uh right now currently I am the

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battalion adjutant . Um I'm pretty much

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the senior human resource officer in

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the battalion . Uh track 821 soldiers

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for the battalion to include five

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different locations here in Afghanistan .

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A couple locations in Iraq and also all

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soldiers back in fort drum . What's

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your biggest challenge been since your

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deployment ? Yeah , uh my biggest

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challenge has been just staying focused .

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Uh there's a lot of things going on

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around the area here , also a lot of

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things going on back home with my wife

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and kids and worried about them and

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bills being paid and and uh with my

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wife being back there , I have no

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worries to worry about . Um that's

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pretty much my biggest challenge . What

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has been your biggest surprise in

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Afghanistan ?

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Mm the people actually

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um when I , when I first got over here ,

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I wasn't too sure how , how the local

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nationals would relate with me and

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relate with the other american soldiers

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here , but they have been very kind and

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very supportive of us being here and

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they've been really nice to us and I'm

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very happy to be here to have actually

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helped for them as well . Is there

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anything else you want to add before I

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let you go ? Mhm . Uh No ma'am , all

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right , merry christmas and come home

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safely . Thank you man