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- My name is Pfc. William Brown.

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I'm with Alpha Company 501st BSB

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and I'm a motor transportation operator.

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People First Week is,
it's something different

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that I wanted to do for a while here

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but we haven't really
done it until this week.

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And I'm like, great,
it's cool because we get

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to talk to NCOs about stuff

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that we normally wouldn't
get to talk to them about

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'cause we're working so much.

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And they got to talk to us and let us know

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like how they grew up.

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So like one of my NCOs, I
never would have imagined

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he grew up the way he grew up.

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And it opened my eyes to
a lot of different things

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about my NCOs 'cause
they're not just NCOs,

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they're people who have
feelings that have gone

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through stuff too, and
you can talk to them.

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And so I think now I would
feel more comfortable talking

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to my NCOs about things
that aren't work-related

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but personal, since I
know that they've gone

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through some stuff and they've
been through stuff too.

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And I really do hope we do
this like once a quarter

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or once a month, because
sometimes you forget

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that they're people too, and that they go

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through things in that they
have emotions and feelings.