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- My name's Staff Sergeant
Walter Hirschmann.

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I'm a recruiter here in
Fredrick County, Maryland.

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Mostly born and raised
and been able to work

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in the community that
I grew up in and love.

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So I actually spent 14 and a half years

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in the Army Band.

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Something that I was
really passionate about.

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The part that I like most
about that career path

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was that I got to interface
with the communities,

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schools, educators, career counselors,

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and we got to kind of
sell the Guard as a whole,

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the Army as a whole, and
when the opportunity came

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to work in my own community
within a recruiting community

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I jumped all over it.

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Honesty, I don't like
to sugar coat things.

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I think it's better
dealing facts and figures

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and move forward about the day

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than trying to, you
know, self all's hopes.

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We have a obligation to
do best by the individual

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and what they oath fully want

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in the next five, 10, 15 years of life.

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