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- I love being on this installation.

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Like, with my job, getting
to just get work orders

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all over the place and like
meet people all over the place.

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I'm never just stuck in one location.

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It's pretty great.

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(uplifting music)

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I joined the Seabees because I knew

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I wanted to go to college for art,

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and I already had an idea that

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the construction industry
world was something

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I was going to be interested in.

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It's played a big part in who I am today,

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and like how confident I am.

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I'm the only female here
in maintenance too so--

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But I fit in well.

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I don't look-- you know, I
don't feel out of place and

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I don't feel like anybody
treats me out of place.

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I just have been doing art
since I was a kid basically.

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Both my parents are very artistic.

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My mom went to college for sculpture.

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My brother majored in
art at the same college.

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So, we've just always done art.

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I wanted the POW MIA portion of this to be

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pretty much the most impactful.

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We want to give tribute to
all of the different branches.

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These are-- they're indoctrination dates,

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but this overall, at
the bottom part of this,

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is the most important to me anyways.

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Because without all of the
sacrifices of the fallen

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and everyone who came before us, you know,

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we wouldn't be continuing our legacies.

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My paintbrushes that I use here
at work, they're not pretty.

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They're not clean, but
they're functional, they work.

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Like I don't want to throw things away.

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So I do take pride in cleaning
the important parts of them.

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I don't have like the most polished tools,

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and a van, and equipment, but
it's not about that for me.

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It's just about, like
having the right tools

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and using them the right way.

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(uplifting music)

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Different battalions I was in,
designing T-shirts for them,

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for deployments, or different missions.

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I did a couple coins.

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I did a battalion mural on
a bulldozer blade in Cuba,

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and that was really cool.

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Just seeing that, oh, like
there are artistic opportunities

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and I don't have an
artistic job necessarily,

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but you can find a way.