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- My name's Specialist Dwayne
Richards from the 25 Bravo.

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That's a Information
Technology Specialist.

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I'm from, my home town's
Mount Vernon, New York.

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My unit is the 101 ESB.

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And we're out of Orangeburg, New York.

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My role here at the Incident
Command Center is in support.

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Information technology support,

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so help desk, user support

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whether it be passwords
or anything to do with

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their machine or getting their job done

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information technology wise.

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Some of the challenges here
I faced at the Javits include

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just being away from my family.

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You know, being able to
read to my boys every night

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but I compensate by, you know,

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getting on Facetime, reading to them

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and then singing them to bed.

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So, I'd say challenge is probably just

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being away from family right now.

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As part of, being a part of
this mission I'm most proud of

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just the overall capacity
in which I serve,

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the ability to serve and
make a big difference

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in just being here.

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I like my job,

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and it's an opportunity
that I'm not sure a lot of

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guard soldiers would
get, you know, if at all

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some active duty soldiers.

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So being able to be
chosen for the mission,

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I'm very proud of that.

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This compared to any other
tasking or deployments

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I've had in the military,
it's that it's very unique.

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It's a situation that is at home.

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We're sworn in to defend the
country, the Constitution

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all enemies foreign and domestic,

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even all the ones we
can't see, such as this.

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So, it's intangible.

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You know, I was deployed
in OEF 13/14, Afghanistan.

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I could see the enemy, you know.

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We went down there to defend the country

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against an enemy you can see.

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Here, you can't see
it, so it's very unique

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and it just makes it a
little bit challenging

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but I know we'll complete the mission.