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^- Day in, day out, I mean, I'll do everything

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^from all the computer work for my company,

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as far as DTMS, which is the training system for the Army,

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inputting that information, personal status,

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giving that information to Battalion,

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making sure everything runs right.

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You know, it's a big responsibility as far as having

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a stewardship of the Army, making sure the right people

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are staying in and keeping with the Army lineage.

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The next generation is big 'cause you're setting them up

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to do your job as soon as you leave the job

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that you're doing.

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There's big problems that you just have to work through.

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Don't sweat the small things by any means

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'cause you're gonna have good days, bad days.

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There's gonna be things that aren't gonna go right.

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You just have to work through whatever issue there is,

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and if it's a big problem, take it piece by piece,

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get the smaller problems outta the way and move on.

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A lotta my soldiers, they say they wanna be like me,

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and that's a pretty good compliment.

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I gotta pretty high retention rate.

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A lotta people are reenlisting.

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Even though the struggles of the Army,

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there's, you know, rotations to Europe or Asia, if you will,

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but people are still reenlisting, still staying in.

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I'm still flying.

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I fly every day, and my job, I shoot a machine gun

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out of a helicopter.

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At the end of the day, that's the bread and butter of it.

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And I do, like I said already, there's never the same day.

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I mean, I'm gonna go fly here.

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I'm gonna fly goggles, do environmental quals,

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which is snow landing, which the snow's gonna come

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from the tail up to the nose of the helicopter

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relatively quickly, and you're gonna have to settle

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the helicopter with power.

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Yeah, Fort Drummond has a unique training opportunity.

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You're gonna get some of the harshest weather

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or environmental considerations out there,

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and you're gonna get cold, you're gonna get wind,

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you're gonna get rain, and we train in all of it regardless.

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Married for 16 years, two kids.

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They've been here the whole time for the most part.

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That's one of the reasons I choose to come back

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to Fort Drum is 'cause of the education system here

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is one of the best in the country.

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My littlest daughter, I mean, I don't go home,

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and she not on my lap within a minutes.

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She's not at home of she's not there.

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Yeah, I do it all for my family.

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^I mean, that's why I'm here.