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- My department provides housing

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on three separate business lines.

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We provide housing to
permanent party staff.

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These are staff members who are single,

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and they live on base in
permanent party barracks.

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The second business line
is student dormitories.

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I provide housing to students

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recently graduated from bootcamp

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or in some instances,

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fleet returnees come back

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from the fleet to Great Lakes,

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and they are housed in
student dormitories.

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The third business line

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which is recruit housing,

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we have barracks,

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we have fourteen.

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Annually, we house about a little

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over 50,000 people per year.

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The pandemic has forced us

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to work with TSC more closely,

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and RTC more closely.

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I think we value what the other does

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a little bit more that we did before.

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Strong can be taken two ways.

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There are some people that,

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you know,

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who just shifted their work to home

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and come in periodically

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add there are others of my staff

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who were left behind

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and I don't mean left behind

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like we abandoned them.

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But they decided they weren't going home.

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They couldn't work from home telework.

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And they basically told me that,

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"Hey, I'm staying here with these sailors,

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they need the supplies,

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you still need people
with boots on the ground

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and Mike, I wanna stay
and help these kids.

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They need us."

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That's what really
defines Great Lake Strong,

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is the people that really stepped up

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and just came right up to me face to face

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and said I'm not going anywhere

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I'm staying with these kids.

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So, when I think of Great Lakes Strong

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I think of those people.

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