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Okay .

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My name is Sergeant Jose Garcia . For

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anyone learning support specialist . I

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am Sergeant Naomi Doorly . I am a 30 50

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to my name is Lance Corporal Jared

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Bagley . I'm a 35 21 . Automotive

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maintenance technician . Corporal

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Joshua Bird . I am a financial

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management resource analyst . My name

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is Corporal Travis Bergen . I'm a 30 43 .

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I am sorry . Anna Gruenberg 01 11 and

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ministry specialists . My name is

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Sergeant Juan Colleville , 30 51 . My

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name is Crippled . Dentist . Riff it .

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34 32 Financial . Imagine a technician

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also disperse er deployed here signal

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Italy . My

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favorite part about being at Camp

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Johnson was being around the people ,

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being around just the people that I

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want to boot camp with the one through

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them CT with being able to just get to

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know them better . I was at Camp

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Johnson from November of 2018 to April

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2019 . I love the people . I made

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really good friendships there that have

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lasted all the way up until now . Uh ,

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the connection that we got living so

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close together and going toe school

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together . My first other camp Johnson

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was pretty overwhelming to something

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new new environment is completely

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different from N . C . T . But it was

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really exciting . I was excited to

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learn and being a another platoon

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setting . When you graduate ,

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it's a whole new world . It's a whole

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different Marine Corps . There's a lot

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more expected of you . You're able to

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step up and really show your true

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colors and who you are . A lot of times

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you're given a lot more responsibility

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and you can really go anywhere . I mean ,

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you can come here to Italy . You can

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deploy anywhere in Europe , in the

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Middle East and in the Pacific and see

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some really cool places , really cool

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sites . So soon as I got here , I was

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able to travel down to Uganda . When I

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went down , I was a unit Pay agents

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were just able to walk around with the

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bag full of certain amount of cash ,

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and we make payments for the Marines

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down in Uganda that it needed any

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supplies that they need to for the

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cancer there at we went around and we

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had to do a lot of market research and

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find the best race that we can to buy ,

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so for them I should about anything

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that has to go back Conus or has to go

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to your own or Germany , mainly just to

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get a lot of things coming in Italy out .

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So back to Germany back tomorrow for

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the other part of special were just

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maintaining the gear . We have Humvees ,

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seven tones here that we're constantly

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making sure open running , good to go

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to , ah , support the mission . So ,

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basically , even even if you don't like

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the job that you're put into getting

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into the Fleet Marine Corps , there are

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a lot of opportunities . Like I got to

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do a parachute jump with re Kon . I got

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to deploy out here to Sicily , um , and

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go to Germany and a bunch of different

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things . Any Marine that's just now

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hitting Camp Johnson at the schoolhouse

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and pretty much further on is not to

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make any decision on moments in your

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life there just moments , and you learn

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from those you build upon and create an

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experience , and that's when you can

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make a decisive decision . If you make

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your decisions on snapping moments ,

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it's gonna lead you into situations

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that you might not see your itself out

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of . Marine Corps has yet to put me in

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any situation , but I cannot see my way

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out of they were . It has challenged me

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and has put obstacles in my path , but

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none that I have not been able to

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overcome by myself with the help the

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left person to the left and the right I

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would recommend to new Marines . Coming

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into the fleet is just the listen to

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the CEOs . They know what's best and

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they know how toe lead you in

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throughout the year career , the Marine

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Corps that I've seen , we take care of

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each other , and that's that's one big

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thing that I do now . And

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that's something that I would let him

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know that . Don't worry , they would

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have good and CEOs and staff issues

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that would take care of them here for

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the the special smack dab . We're

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fortunate to have an M W . R . Where

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they have provided opportunities for

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trips to go up skiing . In all other

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opportunities for exploring this

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beautiful country . We had opportunity

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to go snowboarding up Mount Etna , um ,

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cold . Soon as I was actually able to

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get my feet plot onto the board , I

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felt , um , got up again didn't know

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how to break site crashed into somebody .

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But after I figured out it just a blast .

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I have unfortunately not been ableto

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attend any of those . But I have been

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able to go on comrades which community

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relations it's still exploring and you

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get to meet with the locals as well .

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And it's been a wonderful experience ,

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So opportunities are there for you .

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It's just whether you want to take them

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or not . So the purpose of community

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relation events is Teoh strengthen like

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our bond with the Sicilian population

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US as United States , just as Americans

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in general . And it gives us cool

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opportunities to go places like Tear

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Amina or Siracusa

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Station here in Italy for a deployment .

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It's a great experience . I thought I

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would never be able tow , have

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something like this are be ableto

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travel and do my job somewhere else in

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the world deployments that I thought

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over to like Afghanistan or Iraq , and

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then they were like , Hey , you're

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going to Italy And it seemed like a

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vacation in the deployment , so I was

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pretty excited to go . I made it my

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mission since I joined to travel around

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the world and being here in Italy

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having the opportunity to come here .

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It's exciting seeing new people ,

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seeing a whole different culture and

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just talking just being ableto Joe ,

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enjoy the life that is out here that

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Italy has to offer . Um , since I've

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been in Italy , I've been a tear Amina

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twice . Now I've been to Monica . I've

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been to Mota Pinto , Mount Etna ,

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Catania , and we spent a lot time in .

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Catania is close by . This is kind of

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like a weekend go out , come back ,

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hang out all these places , air

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beautiful . And I'm digging about the

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opportunity to take a lot of pictures

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and create a lot of memories with my

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friends that I've made here because you

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make friends and you make new

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acquaintances . Everywhere you go , you

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never alone . If you ever have a chance

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to come out to Italy , I would

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definitely take upon that chance

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because I've had a great time her so

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far . Even though it was a lot of work ,

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it's a lot of fun as well