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- My name is Specialist Brittany Bernard.

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My daughter, my family, and nursing,

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that's like, that's my life, you know?

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Joining the Army Reserve, one,

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because I have a little girl who, at the time,

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was about three or four years old.

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Because I am single parent, I wanted her to look at me

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and look at somebody she could be proud of.

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She absolutely is looking up to me, I am her role model.

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People who don't even know you are proud of you so

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I know absolutely she would be proud of me

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and that would be something she would look up to

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and me being a woman and joining the military,

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I think that's also a good representation for her.

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Just to kind of let her know that because you're a female,

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doesn't mean you can't do things.

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You can do whatever you wanna do.

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Look at me, I'm a Soldier, but the reason why I ended up

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becoming a nurse on the Army side is because my initial job,

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I didn't feel like I was making much of an impact.

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I wanted to do more so I joined the Army

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and then I used that as my stepping stool to get education

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and then I went to nursing school.

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I've been working as a nurse, that is like my thing.

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I love being a nurse, I love to interact with people.

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I love to be a part of their healing

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and just be a person that can motivate them

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and just show them that somebody cares about them.

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I'm kind of looking forward to making

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that impact on the Army side of things.

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Just going in with the same attitude

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that I have in my civilian jobs.

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It's important to me to show people that

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there's good people that care about them.

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Whether they're Soldiers or they're civilians,

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I want people to know that I'm somebody that

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will care about them, that will take good care of them

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and make sure that they're at the best

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of their ability before they leave me.

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I wanna make sure that I leave

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a positive impact on the world.

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I feel like the way that I'm going

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^to do that is by being a nurse.

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