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first lieutenant Murphy . This is bob

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calvert host . Talking heroes . But

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into Iraq twice . We're planning a trip

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to Afghanistan . And I've been talking

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with the media operation Senator . But

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if you could email me , we can drop

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back and forth uh bob young heroes dot

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U S H E R O es . And the website

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talking 20 dot com . Let me know that

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you got that . Okay , thank you back to

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you . We'll do it bob . I'll send you

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an email . I have the website saved .

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Thanks to Shelley and I'll get some

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information off to you .

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Great Murphy

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through uh special uh

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special jungles . Is he there ? Yes

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sir . How you

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doing , sir ?

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But how are you doing Shelly's here to

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how are you trying ? Oh it's 3:00 AM

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to

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you guys are in . Yeah ,

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go ahead . Tell them .

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Yeah . We're

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doing great . We probably had a

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breakfast in a couple hours . Yeah ,

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you're right .

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Did you get that ?

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Uh Shelly is friday morning here .

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We're getting ready for breakfast .

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You're right . The time difference kind

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of goofy . So did you guys , I don't

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have to set your alarm to get up or do

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you just naturally get up ? And um did

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you have to print to come online here ?

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Uh

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Shelly ? Uh We run kind of 24 hour .

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Ops we just a lot of caffeine . Uh We

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save by islands back . Uh I guess we

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take catnaps every once in a while .

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But

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miller , are you there ? And if I still ,

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could you tell us a little bit about

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what you've been experiencing over

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there .

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Yeah . Surely this special similar um

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mostly what I do is I mean I guess I've

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traveled the most side of the group .

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Um I've been into Iraq's lights and

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into Afghanistan and then into

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Kurdistan and uh each area

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is I guess it represents his own

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challenges and and rewards . Um

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But I guess one of the greater areas is

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wasn't like Kyrgyzstan , where I got to

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see basically airmen dedicating their

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own time to uh go out

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into uh like the smaller villages

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to help uh improve the villages quality

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of quality of living and quality of

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life I guess . So um it's just

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uh they usually do it on on their own

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time and they dedicate their own money

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to do it . So it's uh a selfish service

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like that that really . Uh and it

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shows the military's true nature , my

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chest

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and where are you from ? Um Do you

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wanna say hello standing in your family

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members out there ? Okay . Yeah ,

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I I love to uh I'm from bismarck North

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Dakota and I'd say hi to my mom and my

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dad , my two sisters . Uh My dad is

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steve , my mom is pam Sarah and

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Stephanie and my two sisters and then

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my fiancee amy definitely can't forget

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her I guess . I can't . Uh

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huh .

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Yeah . You better not forget her .

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She would be happy . Very happy about

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that .

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Yeah , I guess I'd

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be getting emails from

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her promptly this morning

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about that , so or well I guess we'll

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be this evening for you guys , so .

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Mhm . How have you been over

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and cut her the whole time or have you

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been over in um uh camping and learned

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to with the rest of them ? Are you've

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been over in cutter with dan . Uh I've

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been , I've been here since the

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beginning . Uh Yeah , basically feels

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like of time . Um No , I I got here

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in early july of last year and so

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I've been here with lieutenant Murphy

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the entire time . Yeah .

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Right . Yeah .

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Yeah . Mhm .

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Yeah . Yeah . Mhm . Mhm .

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Okay , once again , I'm gonna jump in

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here again . Uh obviously quite the

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technical bridge we got going here .

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Ladies and gentlemen all the way to

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cutter Iraq a world away and right here

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in the Heartland all the way to an

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auditorium in South Dakota . If you

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guys in the auditorium can hear me once

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again , when you're speaking from your

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side , please hold the control key down

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and when you're finished , release it

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and we'll connect back a world away .

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So back to you guys in South Dakota on

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that stage , in that auditorium with

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them . Great people over to you guys

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again . Hey , actually

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North Dakota and you have a wife on the

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phone right now we're going to put the

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phone to the mic guys back in Qatar .

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So listen , okay , go ahead . Hey dan .

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We just want to let you know that we're

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listening and the kids marriages

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sitting downstairs listing on a

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computer and you just want to tell you

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that we love you very much and that

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we're very proud of you and just wait

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for you guys to come home hopefully

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sometime next month . So we just wanted

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to say that I have to take the

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opportunity to say that we love you

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back to you right now .

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Thanks Lauren blake and

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Sydney appreciate it . You guys have

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been just absolutely terrific this year

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in your support and Logan and I really

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do appreciate that . It's made the year

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passed a little quicker I guess ? And

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laura , Good luck to you and your

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marathon this weekend in Fargo . How to

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hang on a word . Can you come blake ?

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Go ahead . Like , I love you

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dad . Why don't you talk to him about

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all your great awards ? Although he

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knows that a black hole , your field

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they go

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today . Hey

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dad . I part of that . You know , I

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love you .

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I love you to support you guys .

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Okay ? You're in . Go ahead .

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I love you too , blake .

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Mhm . Yeah . Mhm .

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Did you get that ? Yeah .

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Yeah . Hello ?

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Okay . Did you know you can talk ,

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honey ? Okay .

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Talking about your new puppy .

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Uh huh .

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How does it ?

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Uh Doing

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fine . Uh Some kind of

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kids trying to get off the food on the

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table oil ?

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Good . Yeah . Mhm .

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Can you hear a snack , Shelly ?

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Okay , go ahead . They can hear

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you . All right . Thanks Sidney . I

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love you too . And make sure you get

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those snakes all packed up for Shelly

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when she comes next weekend .

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Thank you . Uh

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huh . Yeah . Yeah .

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And the internet .

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Hey specialist chris Erickson there .

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Yeah , I'm right here . How is

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everybody doing ?

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Okay ? Great . You want to say hi to

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somebody out there with your family ?

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Yeah , I'd like to say hi to my dad and

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mom and Hazleton Dakota say hi to my

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brother , Matt , my sister in law ,

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Mandy and my nephew thor and blake park

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Minnesota . Say hi to my brother Bannon

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linton Road Dakota and say hi to my

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brother eric haven't talked to him a

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couple of weeks . He's either in

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Baghdad in North Dakota . I don't know

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he might be had to leave here . So

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wherever he's at high ,

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I think people are listening all across

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the country right now on the internet ,

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I'm sure a little bit about what you're

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doing there . You know , the only thing

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you can say . Of course .

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Well , it's interesting to

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be in the serving in this capacity . We

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are we've gotten to see a lot of

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different things over the course of

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this last year from all different parts

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of the Middle East . Uh We've seen all

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services , do this , do their jobs ,

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army , Navy , Air Force , Marines ,

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Coast Guard Coalition Forces ,

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Everybody working together just to try

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and do their best to help the Iraqis

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gain independence and uh there's really

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a lot going on . It's amazing to see

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how much .

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Yeah . Yeah . So basically you guys ,

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you're actually helping Iraq and in

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Afghanistan and other areas about part

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of the world . We

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do get in contact with service members

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who are in Iraq and Afghanistan and we

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get them in touch with media back home .

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So they in turn can tell their stories .

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uh I think we lost you for a second .

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Once you come back on that again , uh

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we get in contact with service members

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who are deployed to Iraq and

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Afghanistan as well as 25 other

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countries throughout the Middle East

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and Southwest Asia . And we get them in

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touch with stateside media , all their

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hometowns and such so that they can

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tell everybody back home what they're

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doing in their own words . We really

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appreciate all you guys service to our

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country . And there's anything else

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that uh I would like to share with the

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american people maybe about supporting

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the troops and your family .

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Uh

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Yeah , we just like to thank everybody

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for their support uh would be uh a lot

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tougher to do , do what we do without

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without you guys back there supporting

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us . Uh So we all like to say thanks

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and keep sending the care packages

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because those are sweet . Um

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going back to um precious jungles ,

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could you ? I think we didn't cover you

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if you want to talk about where you're

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from and to have your family and talk

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to us about your experiences over there

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as well ,

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Shelly , I'm from uh from

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uh the cities in Minnesota . Um Uh

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huh , My family's back there and

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uh I mean

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basically , you know , our units kind

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of unique uh the unit from North Dakota ,

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we have a pretty unique mission with ,

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you know , working , you know , with

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centcom were pretty spread out , having

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people in the in Tampa and Atlanta .

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And so we're kind of seeing all aspects

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of the whole public affairs , you know ,

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uh you know , all the operations

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throughout the , you are from the

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actual uh the creation of the products

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that are , you know , being made on the

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ground printing video products to uh

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actually seeing them in the civilian

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media's hands , through Atlanta in the

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uh david system . When we have a few

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fellas working and uh , you know , just

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kind of the whole the whole wide gamut

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of things that are going on , public

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affairs wise , we get to kind of

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experience . And uh it's been unique .

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It's been interesting . Uh we've had a

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great year , we're ready to turn it

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over