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- When we lose a special tactics airman,

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and unfortunately under my period of command,

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^we've lost some great heroes out there

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^in our special tactics community,

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^but when all of the airmen fall out,

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doesn't matter where you are,

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and line the street from the back gate

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all the way to the chapel, with airmen shoulder to shoulder,

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saluting the procession as it goes by,

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those are very, very proud moments

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because your airmen fall out

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and they recognize that we've lost one of our airmen.

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Let me just sit and remind all of you that

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we ask our airmen to do extraordinary things.

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They are extraordinary people, each and every one of 'em.

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They're this nation's one percenters.

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1% of this nation wears a uniform and defends the other 99%.

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And those people are extraordinary people,

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and they do extraordinary things.

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They're not normal people, they don't live an ordinary life.

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They have that choice, but they choose to stay

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in this extraordinary block of humans

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that do extraordinary things.

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