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he's always got , everybody's always

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got to check out of place , you know

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what I mean ? You know , it's really ,

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really , really cool about being here

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and doing this and being here in kuwait

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and going into Iraq the next seven days .

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Not , you know , I was a marine , I am

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still in marine . Uh you know , I went

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into 4004 , uh just missed appointment .

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Just missed appointment and uh always

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felt a little bit , always felt a

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little bit guilty about going up going

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uh with

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uh with a chance to start uh start

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prescribing to her . I've got a chance

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to come back out here and perform for

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the troops and that kind of uh , you

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know , emotionally set my mind and he's ,

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I've never being out here and uh that's

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an amazing experience for me already

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and I'm not even a full day into it yet .

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We're just , we're just getting ready

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to wrap up .

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Uh ,

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this knucklehead over here

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uh

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already bloodied my nose basketball .

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I've , I've met some great people here ,

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I've enabled with a lot of servicemen

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and women and uh you're a couple areas

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in the base and uh you have to go in

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and see a little contingent of 30

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marine very , very cool walking in the

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building and seeing them all there and

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uh it's just an awesome awesome feeling

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and something , something you can't

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describe with words , you can only feel

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and I hope that , you know through

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stories , you know , people can get

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just a little bit of a sense of what

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you're going through ,

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uh ,

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you know , if I didn't join the Marine

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Corps , I wouldn't be here . I wouldn't

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be in the music business . Uh was

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always a good kid . Um just and of

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course that's the direction and uh when

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we went to the hardest thing I knew I

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knew that I could possibly go into and

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I was always the kid that said he was

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gonna do everything and I had the

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ability , the ability to do whatever I

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wanted . Just never followed through

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with anything . Uh walked into the

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marine cool when I was 20 years old and

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I changed my life forever . Uh It was ,

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it is uh obviously , you know , we got

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that thing ability have to have talent .

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You have to have that thing about you

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get up on stage , but one of the main

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building blocks , uh get me where I'm

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at today , It was joining the Marine

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Corps . Uh