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- Good Afternoon.

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I'm Colonel Scott Baldwin.

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I'm the Deputy Commander

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for Marine Corps Installations East

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and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

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I'm here with Sar Major Metzger.

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The Sargent Major

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for the MCI East and

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Marine Corps base.

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We're here at one of the homes

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you can see behind us.

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That received some devastating impacts

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from Hurricane Florence.

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As you know,

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Hurricane Florence was
one of the largest storms

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and strongest storms

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that hit us

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in years.

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I've talked to locals

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who've been here for thirty plus years.

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And although it did come ashore

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as a category one,

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they saw a category three's

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come through here years ago.

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But this one was very unique

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just in the way that it was

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it was formed,

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and the way it came across our shore,

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and how it moved really slowly

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and was over the area for so long

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and we had these sustained winds,

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and all the devastation
that came along with that.

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And I will tell you,

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as most of you have seen

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driving around the installation here.

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There was a lot of devastation

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and we're very quickly

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trying to dig our way out.

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We treat it similar like a triage

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where were starting out saying

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"What's the worst

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and how do we get those
taken care of first?"

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And then move our way

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down the line.

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So we will get to everything.

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It just may take a little bit of time.

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And we need your patience

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and your support to one,

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help us to help you

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and then ask that you help yourselves

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as your doing this.

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Little things like

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uh inside if you see you have

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some water damage.

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Those AMCC folks,

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the housing folks

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they're going to come around

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and they're going to get to you eventually

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to look at your water damage

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and make an assessment.

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So with that,

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Sargent Major.

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- It's been two weeks

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since that storm has come through

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and hit us out there.

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But one thing were committed to

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is making sure that we give
people accurate information.

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We have to make sure
that our recovery efforts

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are also united towards

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the greater good of all.

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So what we ask you to is

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make sure you understand that we hear you,

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we understand your concerns

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and we're committed to you.

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We're here to make sure that

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Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

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is safe for all our service members,

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families and civilian employees

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who live and work aboard Camp Lejeune.

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- Alright so,

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"How can you help us to help you?"

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Well I will tell you

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one of the greatest mediums out there

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is social media.

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Right now we have our comstrat office

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and they're monitoring

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and watching social media sites

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all day

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every single day.

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They may not get an
answer to you immediately

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or be responsive like
you might expect them

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to be responsive.

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But we will get to it.

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And we are going to use those.

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We value your imput,

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and we can put all those together

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and really will help us

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as we go through this triage process.

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So if you can imagine this is one

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of over five thousand homes

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on the Camp Lejeune

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and Marine Corps Air station,

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New River Installations.

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So as we slowly get through these

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there's more then 100 homes

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that looks similar to this

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with severe devestation.

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Those families are being worked with

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on a case by case basis

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to get them relocated

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uh and back to what we would consider

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to be a normal life.

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So please be patient.

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Brigadier General Alford,

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the Commanding General

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is committed to you,

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he's committed to this community,

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and he's committed

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to every individual service member

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and their family to make sure

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that their taken care of.

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Just please be patient with us

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it could take a little bit of time.

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Thank you very much.

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- Oorah

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- Semper Fi