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- Hello, my name is Staff
Sergeant Schnige Albert Arochi,

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and I'm an augmentee for
the DPAA Mission 20-1LA,

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on Recovery Team One.

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So, I'm from Riverside, California.

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My parents live right
by March Air Force Base.

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My parents do still live there.

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My brother lives in San Diego,

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and my sister lives in Temecula.

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So, kinda nearby.

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I graduated from Martin
Luther King Jr. High School,

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back in 2013.

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While I was in high school,
I did just one year of track

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and I did a lot of cycling
outside of school, and yeah.

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Currently, I'm stationed at
Andersen Air Force Base, Guam,

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and my job there is contracting.

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Currently, I do construction contracting.

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So I just basically write
contracts for contractors

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to come on base and do construction,

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such as renovations or
painting, things of that nature.

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My superintendent called
me into his office one day

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and he mentioned this opportunity

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and asked if I wanted to do
it, and I said yes, of course.

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And he submitted my
name and basically just

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a few days later, a few
weeks later, I got an email

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saying that I was picked
to come on this mission.

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When I received the email
saying that I was picked

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to come on this mission,
I was really excited

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just because I thought
it was something cool,

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that I've never done something like this,

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and I thought it would be
a cool opportunity for me.

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A normal day as a DPA Recovery NCO,

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we get on the bus, we get to the site,

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and depending when your dig shift is,

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dictates whether you're
starting the day with digging

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or if you're going into dry screening,

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which is basically sifting dirt

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into the screen to try
to find any evidence.

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And then we have lunch and sometimes you

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have two dig shifts,
sometimes you just have one,

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and then that's pretty much the whole day.

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When I get back to my unit, I
plan to share with everybody

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how my experience was and let them know

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that this was a very unique experience,

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and let 'em know to try
to take this opportunity,

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if we have another opportunity
to come out for our unit

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because I feel like here we
are fulfilling our Nation's

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promise to the families of those fallen.

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I just want to make a shout
out to my friends and family

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back in California.

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Let them know that I'm doing
great, having fun out here,

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and tell them that I love and miss them.

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