WEBVTT 00:06.440 --> 00:08.384 My name is First Lieutenant Marina 00:08.384 --> 00:10.329 Zelinski . I'm currently stationed 00:10.329 --> 00:12.329 Travis Air Force Base as a clinical 00:12.329 --> 00:14.496 nurse . I've been in the military just 00:14.496 --> 00:16.670 over two years at this point , I was 00:16.670 --> 00:20.240 commissioned in July of 2018 and then 00:20.240 --> 00:22.351 went to MTP , and I've been stationed 00:22.351 --> 00:24.407 Travis ever since . I got the notice 00:24.407 --> 00:26.407 that I was going to be deployed for 00:26.407 --> 00:28.573 this specific mission . I think it was 00:28.573 --> 00:30.573 the 23rd of December . About a week 00:30.580 --> 00:32.802 before Christmas . We found out we were 00:32.802 --> 00:34.858 coming down here . The previous Kobe 00:34.858 --> 00:36.580 mission I was on was in Lodi , 00:36.580 --> 00:38.580 California , which is about an hour 00:38.580 --> 00:40.802 south of where I am station . So , back 00:40.802 --> 00:42.913 when I was in high school , I used to 00:42.913 --> 00:45.136 volunteer at the Portsmouth Hospital in 00:45.136 --> 00:47.247 my area . I'm sorry . In Virginia , E 00:47.247 --> 00:49.469 used to work at the Portsmouth Hospital 00:49.469 --> 00:52.220 in Virginia as a volunteer , and there 00:52.220 --> 00:54.331 was something about serving those who 00:54.331 --> 00:56.331 had served before me that just felt 00:56.331 --> 00:58.498 like a higher calling . It felt like I 00:58.498 --> 01:00.609 was giving back Thio those that I had 01:00.609 --> 01:03.760 to take my freedom for . So I have 01:03.760 --> 01:06.600 thought about doing RTC . Luckily , was 01:06.600 --> 01:08.767 accepted and was able to apply and was 01:08.767 --> 01:10.711 accepted into a nursing program in 01:10.711 --> 01:11.767 Virginia as well . 01:13.640 --> 01:16.320 Honestly , I never thought I would see 01:16.320 --> 01:18.209 something like this in my nursing 01:18.209 --> 01:20.830 career , and I know we hear that these 01:20.830 --> 01:23.070 times are unprecedented a million times 01:23.070 --> 01:26.610 over . But if you had told me two years 01:26.610 --> 01:28.930 ago that we'd be working for , I 01:28.940 --> 01:31.340 believe since the lie until now what 01:31.340 --> 01:33.440 six months straight that we've been 01:33.440 --> 01:35.607 deploying for Kobe related missions in 01:35.607 --> 01:37.718 a civilian hospital , I wouldn't have 01:37.718 --> 01:39.773 believed you , but this is where the 01:39.773 --> 01:41.718 mission is , and this is where the 01:41.718 --> 01:43.884 American people need us . So it's been 01:43.884 --> 01:46.910 an honor to be able to help . Honestly , 01:46.910 --> 01:49.870 it's been really great . I have never 01:49.870 --> 01:52.037 worked in a civilian hospital before , 01:52.037 --> 01:53.981 So for me , this has been very eye 01:53.981 --> 01:55.814 opening to see what our civilian 01:55.814 --> 01:57.648 counterparts are working with on 01:57.648 --> 01:59.703 Compare it a little bit , too . What 01:59.703 --> 02:01.703 are hospitals look like at home and 02:01.703 --> 02:03.759 just the exchange of information and 02:03.759 --> 02:05.926 being ableto kind of star cultures and 02:05.926 --> 02:07.981 the way that we do things in the way 02:07.981 --> 02:10.203 that they do things . It helps not only 02:10.203 --> 02:13.260 toe kind of work on 02:13.740 --> 02:15.907 cohesion between the two parties , but 02:15.907 --> 02:17.962 also helps us to better practices as 02:17.962 --> 02:20.018 well . When we go back . So the Kobe 02:20.018 --> 02:22.190 patients that we have been seeing at 02:22.190 --> 02:24.730 David Grant Medical Center we're not as 02:24.730 --> 02:26.786 numerous as the ones that we've been 02:26.786 --> 02:28.740 seen here in any of the civilian 02:28.740 --> 02:30.851 hospitals that we've been tasked to . 02:31.340 --> 02:33.540 Back in July , when I went on my first 02:33.540 --> 02:37.430 covert mission , we I had 02:37.430 --> 02:39.097 a patient population that was 02:39.097 --> 02:40.930 controllable within the negative 02:40.930 --> 02:43.152 pressure rooms that we were seeing . So 02:43.152 --> 02:45.152 it was nowhere close to a situation 02:45.152 --> 02:47.263 like this where we're working on a co 02:47.263 --> 02:49.430 vid ward and the entire floor has been 02:49.430 --> 02:51.950 turned into patients solely consisting 02:51.950 --> 02:54.117 of those who have been affected by the 02:54.117 --> 02:55.894 disease . Now we're seeing more 02:55.894 --> 02:58.510 patients at David Grant with co vid 02:58.510 --> 02:59.110 than we have .