WEBVTT

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(pensive music)

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(soft piano music)

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- [William] Hi, my name's
Airman William Gingras.

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So I listed in 2017, so
it'll be three years now.

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- [Eric] Master Sergeant Eric Basile.

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It'll be 24 years on the 28th of August.

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- [Christina] Staff
Sergeant Christina Cordova,

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I've been in the military
for eight years now.

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- [Christopher] Staff
Sergeant Christopher Hamilton,

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I've only been in the Guard
for a year and a half.

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- [MTT Member] I'm a part of the MTT Team

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which stands for Mobile Testing Team.

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Our job is to help assist the
nurses conducting the swabs

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of the employees and also the residents.

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- [Eric] You know, we
bring hope in a lot of ways

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cause we go into some decimated areas,

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not necessarily for this
mission, but in past missions,

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for hurricanes and stuff.

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And people don't have
water or electricity,

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I mean they just want basic necessities,

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and they know when we show up,

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things are about to get better.

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- [William] I actually live pretty local,

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so today we went over by Altamonte Springs

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which is where I live,

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so it was within about
ten minutes from my home.

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- [MTT Member] I'm
local, Orlando, Florida.

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It feels good to give
back to the community

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and be here to help them out.

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- [Eric] That's the whole
reason why I left active duty

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and joined the Guard because
I wanted to get more involved

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in serving my community,

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and the benefit of being in the guard,

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I get to serve local communities.

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- [MTT Member] It feels great.

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I joined the Guard

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specifically to kind of
give back in Florida.

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- It's good to take part in this crisis.

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I've heard a lot of people
feeling sick and hurt,

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and it's nice to help.

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- [MTT Member] Don't be scared.

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We're here to help.

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- We're here to help you guys.

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I know it can seem scary with
all the military personnel,

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especially us in our
suits and stuff like that,

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but we're here to help you guys.

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- Everything's gonna be okay.

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We're trying to look out for you,

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and it'll taken care of.

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- [William] The message I
wanna give out to everybody is

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that I know it's a little
weird having people

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with the uniform walking
around and everything,

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but we're here to help,

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and we're happy to help.

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(soft music)