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- Experience on LCS is nothing

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like I've ever experienced before.

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I mean my previous experience
was on an LHD-2 USS Essex,

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which is a huge crew and
my job was very focused

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as a gunner's rank.

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Small arms.

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Magazines et cetera.

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Being down to 90 people

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including AVDA and mission package,

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you really get to know the
people you're working with.

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You really get to depend on each other.

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- Every part of my job is fun.

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Maybe not the getting three
or four hours of sleep

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but being able to put
my hands on equipment

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and learn it like no one else knows it

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gives me a really great sense of pride

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and it's very challenging

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to be doing all those
different jobs at one time.

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But at the end of the day when I get my

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few hours of sleep I
feel good about myself.

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I feel like I really contributed to

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the freedom that we all hold.

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- You put a lot of hard
work into deployment

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and coming in being able to
just do what your trained to do

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and being the first crew to ever do it

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also brings pride to what you do.

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Between all the exercises we've done

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working with other units.

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Other countries.

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The hard work has paid off and it's

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looking forward to getting back.

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- And the crews handle this very well.

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We've been given a lot
of different curve balls.

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A lot of of different tasks to accomplish

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and a lot of lessons learned to develop

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and the crew has done a
fantastic job with it.

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It has not been easy by any
stretch of the imagination,

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but if it was easy someone
else would be doing it,

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not the US Navy.

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- We're the first ones to do it.

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The first ones to deploy an LCS-273

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and we're setting the example

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setting the standard for everyone else.