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- That's a tough question. (laughter)

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- The Army Birthday kinda
reminds me of, you know,

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the uniform that I wear
and to be proud of it

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and that there's a long history behind me

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and hopefully more
history still to be made.

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- The Army's birthday,
I don't know. (laughter)

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- So the Army Birthday to me means

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that we have 244 years of
values based tradition, right?

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So we live off the army
values, the 7 army values,

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and I think that's real important.

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Especially at the Army Birthday today

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that we reflect on that.

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- The Army birthday means 244 years of

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hard work and protecting
the US and our allies.

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- Celebrating 244 years
of freedom is significant.

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You know I've got a daughter,
2 daughters, and a family

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and being able to live in
a freedoms that we have

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and enjoy the liberties that we have

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is really amazing.

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And then, personally, to get
to work with some of the finest

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US citizens that we have,
working in uniform side by side.

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It's been a great experience.

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- The Army Birthday to me is
simply just the definition,

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no. (laughter)

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- Working with the Romanians
has been definitely

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really interesting, there's
some language barriers

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but we're overcoming them and
I've spoken with a few of them

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they're very nice.

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A lot of similar similarities
that you take the time

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to reach out and talk to a bunch of them

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you'll get to know them a lot.

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They're working with
us here at the job site

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and we're working really well,

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there's a lot of great
cohesion and it's going well.

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- The Romanians are great,

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it's really great to get out of the States

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and work with our NATO allies

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especially with everything that's going on

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in the world right now.

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- (sigh) Give me a second.

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I'm really nervous work with me.

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(cameraman chuckles)

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- It's been unique.

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This is my first experience
working directly with them.

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They are very professional,

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very open to discussion
and working with us.

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It's been very inter--, enlightening

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I guess is the best way to say it.

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- Hi, I'm Specialist Lender

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and I'm from the 601st Engineer Company.

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- Hi, I'm Agent Robert Mikyska

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I'm the OIC of Resolute Castle

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for the 372nd Engineer Brigade

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out at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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I'm from North Aurora, Illinois.

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- It's Captain James Corbett
from the 601st Engineer Company

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Buckhannon, West Virginia.

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- My name is Specialist Barrera,

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I'm from Corpus Christi,
Texas and I'm with 211th RSG.

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- I'm Colonel Kelly D. Mcnesse,

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the commander of the 211th
Regional Support Group.

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- Lieutenant Rodriguez
211th RSG Corpus Christi,

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Happy Birthday, army.

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- Just wanna wish a happy
birthday to United States Army.

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- (unison) Happy Birthday, army!

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- Happy Birthday, army.

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- Happy Birthday, army.

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- And Happy Birthday, army.

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(laughter)

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- (unison) Happy Birthday, army!

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- Go army, beat navy, happy birthday

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to 244 years of army
freedom and to 244 more.

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- (unison) Happy Birthday, US Army.