WEBVTT 00:04.020 --> 00:09.020 - We are a housing facility for low income families. 00:09.210 --> 00:12.370 You have to come in and volunteer several hours 00:12.370 --> 00:15.110 of your time in order for you to get a house. 00:15.110 --> 00:17.310 With impacting the community, 00:17.310 --> 00:20.180 being able to build homes for low-income families, 00:20.180 --> 00:22.310 it creates stability. 00:22.310 --> 00:25.050 Children are twice as likely to attend college 00:25.050 --> 00:28.020 after moving into a Habitat house. 00:28.020 --> 00:29.490 Being out on the job sites 00:29.490 --> 00:33.070 is one of the most fun things for me working here. 00:33.070 --> 00:34.890 You work alongside the homeowner, 00:34.890 --> 00:37.640 and you see their self-confidence skyrocket 00:37.640 --> 00:39.080 and yours will too. 00:39.080 --> 00:42.720 So, we are a huge recycling facility, 00:42.720 --> 00:45.170 not only with furniture and building supplies 00:45.170 --> 00:49.310 but with paint and porcelain, metal and cardboard. 00:49.310 --> 00:53.540 We send out three big huge dumpsters 00:53.540 --> 00:55.710 full of metal every month. 00:55.710 --> 00:58.630 And those end up weighing about, I wanna say, 00:58.630 --> 01:01.650 seven tons every time it gets picked up. 01:01.650 --> 01:03.480 The porcelain dumpster, 01:03.480 --> 01:05.700 that gets picked up four times a month, 01:05.700 --> 01:07.730 and it weighs about nine tons. 01:07.730 --> 01:09.610 And the city will take that 01:09.610 --> 01:11.920 and grind it down to use for road base right 01:11.920 --> 01:14.940 and fix our roads right here in El Paso County. 01:14.940 --> 01:17.950 And then the cardboard recycling we do, 01:17.950 --> 01:21.680 I wanna say, seven to nine yards of cardboard recycling 01:21.680 --> 01:24.560 every time it gets picked up too. 01:24.560 --> 01:26.810 So that's all being kept out of the landfill. 01:32.650 --> 01:36.933 - My shipmate and I, GM3 Johnson, 01:38.260 --> 01:39.940 decided that we wanted to go ahead 01:39.940 --> 01:41.150 and help out the community 01:41.150 --> 01:45.900 and go beyond our regular drill cycle. 01:45.900 --> 01:49.470 I think it definitely provides a more meaningful experience 01:49.470 --> 01:52.450 for our shipmates when we are giving back to the community 01:52.450 --> 01:56.040 and they can see the impact that they actually provide. 01:56.040 --> 01:58.190 By, you know, choosing 01:58.190 --> 02:00.593 an organization like Habitat for Humanity. 02:01.620 --> 02:03.120 We chose Habitat for Humanity 02:03.120 --> 02:08.120 because of the fact that it's a great organization 02:08.430 --> 02:12.130 that not only helps the community here 02:12.130 --> 02:13.920 in the Colorado Springs area, 02:13.920 --> 02:16.510 but it also helps across the world. 02:16.510 --> 02:21.510 They serve approximately 80 other countries in the world, 02:21.800 --> 02:25.320 providing assistance for humanitarian efforts. 02:25.320 --> 02:27.110 Here in the Colorado Springs area 02:27.110 --> 02:31.207 they, of course, provide housing 02:31.207 --> 02:36.207 and obviously provide construction for low-income families. 02:37.310 --> 02:39.550 - Today we're out here with a couple of guys 02:39.550 --> 02:42.763 moving the make creating aisles. 02:43.600 --> 02:46.910 So we're moving all this material making aisles. 02:46.910 --> 02:49.560 Lot of heavy materials, lots of metals, lots of wood. 02:50.460 --> 02:53.040 Just creating aisles so people can walk through 02:53.040 --> 02:56.253 and startin' down there moving all the way back here. 02:57.100 --> 03:00.230 The bigger items right there'll be moved this way 03:00.230 --> 03:03.300 just so there's more walking space and more space for people 03:03.300 --> 03:04.820 to drive cars up here. 03:04.820 --> 03:06.690 The community can come here pick out, 03:06.690 --> 03:07.820 ya know, miscellaneous objects. 03:07.820 --> 03:12.083 Anything they need to build for housing, plumbing, 03:13.070 --> 03:14.853 all sorts of outdoor gear. 03:16.080 --> 03:20.170 Pretty much everything they need for building is here 03:20.170 --> 03:22.120 at Habitat for Humanity. 03:22.120 --> 03:23.490 It feels great to do it. 03:23.490 --> 03:27.030 I love doin' it. I'd come out here every day if I could. 03:29.520 --> 03:32.180 - The main thing about having a Navy presence here 03:32.180 --> 03:36.400 in the community is, obviously, we all signed up 03:36.400 --> 03:41.360 to serve our country and it goes beyond just the servitude 03:41.360 --> 03:42.820 to our nation in the military. 03:42.820 --> 03:45.027 But it goes towards the community. 03:45.027 --> 03:49.080 The Navy's always ready to make sure that 03:49.080 --> 03:53.470 we're looking out for the well-being of our community 03:53.470 --> 03:55.713 and the civilians across the globe.