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Hi , this is julie from Cairo tv in

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Seattle Thanks so much for waiting . Hi

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julie . Hi , great to have

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you with us . Tell us if you would your

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name and um , where you are and where

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your hometown is . My name

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is chaplain kelly Hansen and I am

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in joint base balad in Iraq and my

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hometown is Seattle Washington . That's

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awesome . Well , tell us a little bit

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about what you're doing there as a

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chaplain . What may be a typical day is

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like if you have a typical day , a

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typical day for a chaplain is um , to

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provide worship services for the

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soldiers here to assess their spiritual

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needs and their religious needs and

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what they need to keep that part of

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them healthy and growing strong . I do

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a lot of individual counseling . My

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unit , our mission is convoy security .

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So one of the things I do each day is

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to pray for each of the convoys that

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goes out on the roads here in Iraq .

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Um , how , how is it ? I mean , do you

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feel like people have more time for

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their spirituality or because the risk

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there , maybe they do for focus more on

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it or maybe less because they are just

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so busy with the mission

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in terms of time , most of the soldiers

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here are pretty busy . They're fairly

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engaged . They have a pretty rigorous

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work schedule each week . So I would

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say in terms of spirituality and

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religious growth for a lot of soldiers .

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It happens on a more informal level

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like coming on a deployment ,

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experiencing combat , coming to a

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different part of the world definitely

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forces one to ask and answer a lot of

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important life questions .

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Yeah , I bet . Um , what was your

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training and how did you decide to get

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into this role as the chaplain ? I

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was in seminary studying to become an

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ordained minister . Um , and one of the

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career paths that a lot of the students

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that I knew were following was to

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become a military chaplain . So I was

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in school with a handful of Navy and

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army chaplains who were getting some

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more education mid career . And so I

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learned a lot about the chaplaincy from

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then and learned that it was a place

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where faith is challenged and it grows

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and it's where the rubber hits the road

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and that intrigued me . And so that was

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where I first began was when I was a

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student in seminary . Well , tell us ,

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uh , about your family back here . What

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do they think of you ? You know , being

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there and the job you're doing . And um ,

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when you might come home , my family

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back there has been very supportive .

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They've pitched in in so many ways .

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Our church has sent over deacons each

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week to help my husband and our two

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young boys with all of the household

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duties that they've got on them . So

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the community has pulled in in ways

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that I couldn't even imagine that we

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would have needed , but we did end up

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needing . So they're supportive . They

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can't wait to have me back . So in a

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few months we , my unit will redeploy

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and we will be back home in the state

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of Washington . Must be tough to be

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away from your two boys . How old are

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they ? And how do you deal with being

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away from them ? My two boys are ages

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two and four . They were one and three

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when I left and so they are growing up

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quickly and it's tough . It's tough to

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be a way , it's tough to hand over the

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reins of parenting for a year . Um ,

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and to not be there for all the little

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things . The ministry here has

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definitely been rewarding and in the

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folks here that I've met , the people

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on my staff , part of my team have

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definitely helped to make it easier .

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Um It helps to have phone calls each

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week and to type emails to them and I

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get a lot of pictures in the mail and

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that's one of my favorite things to get

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because I can see my boys growing month

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in and month out . Your husband must be

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amazing holding down the fort literally

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while you're gone . He is , he's had a

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year to be mr mom ,

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wow . So does he work outside the home

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to and how does he juggle everything

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while you're gone ? He's had to juggle

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it all . He was working outside the

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home when I first left and then part of

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the economic downturn , his job was

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eliminated . So that was tough on us .

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But there has been a couple of silver

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linings like it has definitely

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decreased some of the stress level for

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him of juggling parenting and kids . So

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once , once I get back home , then

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we'll begin to cross that employment

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bridge once again . Well , good for

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you . Making it all work . Anything

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that we left out that you would like to

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ask . Um , not that I can think of .

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Everyone here is excited to get back

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home and a job well done . We're

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nearing the end of our deployment and

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if I can say hi to my kids , Hi zack

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Hynek . Mommy will be home soon .

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Absolutely . That's awesome . Well ,

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thank you so much for talking to us and

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thanks for what you're all doing there

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for our country and all the best to you

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and um , we'll see you back here in a

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few months . Thank you julie . Do you

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know when this is going to air ? You

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know , I don't , if you would have the

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media people contact our news desk then

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um , then they can try to find out for

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you and many times just put on our

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website , which is Cairo tv dot com ,

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which would be , you know , easier for

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you to access . But yeah , if you would

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have them call , um , our news desk ,

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that would be great . Then they can

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find out because at this point we're

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just figuring our day out and so they

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don't know yet . Okay . Sounds good .

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All right . Take care . Thanks so much .

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Thank you julie .