WEBVTT

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- We are headed on deployment

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for the next few months.

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I'm sad because I'm going to miss my kids

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^and my family and my beautiful wife.

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^And I'm excited because I get to go deploy

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^and execute the mission.

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Yeah, have a plan to keep the big picture in mind

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on why we're over there and what the mission is

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and how we're executing it.

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(dramatic orchestral music)

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- Okay, we're just gathering everybody,

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getting all our equipment, all our gear, staging it up

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and we're getting prepared to leave,

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so some of us have our friends, family here

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some of us who are not so fortunate,

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we try to stay together.

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I prepare mentally for this

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just by talking to friends, family

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not expecting a lot but hoping for the best.

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That way, whatever happens,

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it's not gonna impact me negatively.

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^Right now I'm feeling a lot of anxiety

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^I have that kind of childlike feeling where

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^Are we there yet? Is it time to go?

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Other then that, I think, a little bit nervous.

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I'm hoping to take away from this deployment

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just a different experience, as I said

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since I work in the MALS, I work across the street

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I don't work with the O-level guys,

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I don't work with the aircraft directly.

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So, I want to see a little bit more how my work

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impacts their work and in the end, the aircraft.

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(airplane taking off)