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- [Christian] My name is Christian Gray.

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- [Hunter] And, my name is Hunter Morton,

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and my best friend and I came

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through the Buddy Program.

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- [Christian] Oh yeah, we
didn't like each other at first.

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We had, uh, we had, uh, girlfriend issues.

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We, I swear, in elementary school,

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we dated, like, the same girl.

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And, then, we both found out

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and like hated each other,

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for like a year,

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and, then, when fifth grade came around,

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we were like best buddies
and just messing around.

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- [Hunter] We hung out
with the same friend group

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and then we, we just took them there,

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we started playing sports
at recess together.

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(soft instrumental music)

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- So, it started off that I told my,

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I told my dad junior year,

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I was like,

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"Well dad, I talked to a
Marine recruiter today.

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"I want, I really think I'm
going to join the Marines."

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And, he's like,

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"Well, there's this new thing out

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"called the Buddy Program.

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"Why don't you do it.

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"Well, things are for crazy people,

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"things are for killers."

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That's exactly what he said,

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he said,

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"think that's for killers."

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And, I started naming people off,

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and I named Hunter off,

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and he's like,

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"Oh, he's a, he's a killer."

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He's like,

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"Why don't you ask him?"

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So, I went to school the next day.

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I was like,

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"Yo, Hunter, what are going
to do with your life?"

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I took him to a recruiter,

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and he sat there and talked to him,

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and everything went from there.

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(soft instrumental music)

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- Christian inspired
me to become a Marine,

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because,

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he's always been there for me,

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he's always had my back,

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and,

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he noticed whenever I was,

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I wasn't setting myself up with success.

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So, he, he pulled me out of the wrong,

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and,

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he really inspired me

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by telling me stuff like,

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"Yo, it's going to straighten my life out.

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"We're going to have a
good future and career,

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"you know,

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"we're going to be set."

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Stuff like that inspired me
to join the Marine Corps.

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We always have each other's back,

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you know, talking us up.

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Keeping each other,

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keeping each other happy.

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But, pushing

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pushing forward to seeing it end.

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Going home, seeing our
families and stuff, so.

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It's definitely brought

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our bond a lot closer, emotionally.

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- [Christian] Oh, we for
sure came better friends.

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We came, we came into boot camp tight.

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Me and him.

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We came in here as brothers.

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But, now, we're like,

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we have, like, a better bond,

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we're, like, blood brothers,

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we have something to say.

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Like, we came into boot camp together.

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13 weeks.

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And, just, killed it, you know.

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Like, we're here together.

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We did it together.

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Mentally and physically.