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Mm . Mhm .

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Yeah . Mm hmm . Mhm .

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I'm am

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Specialist Ryan . I'm with HHC as a

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combat medic . Hi . My name is

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especially

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I'm

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most excited about . Just , you know ,

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the bonding with my team . Um also a

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little bit of down time to go and see

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the history of the United States . Oh ,

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and , uh , just feeling my my spot , I

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guess I've never been on Washington D c .

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So it's gonna be something new for me .

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Uh , hopefully made a lot of new people

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help people be professional .

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Uh , do my best .

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Um , they've definitely provided me

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with a ton of resources . Uh , I was

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able to , you know , um , got school

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benefits . Um , I'm I'm Americans and

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once said And so I was able to tap into

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resources from doctors and PhDs , um ,

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and really used their knowledge to my

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managed to improve myself better as a

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soldier as well as the other people

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around me to get myself physically fit

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for whatever I have to help me out to

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learn English . So I'm Puerto Rican .

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So my main English Spanish . So when I

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joined these guys that helped me out a

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lot learning english and , uh , not

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only that teaching me the way we do the

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things in here like , uh , paperwork

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didn't work . Uh , when we go to the

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field , help out each other all the

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time . These are good guys . Okay ?

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Civilian

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world . I'm a full time student using

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my benefits . Like I said , um , I'm

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studying human biology with Systemhouse

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Science , and I work part time at a

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quick shirt . Um , doing retail

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customer service . So is this a billion ?

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And I'm a Q A , uh So I have

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to do sensory checks on

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a lot of different foods that my

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company made , uh , do . And I'm

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actually the barber for our like

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cartoon . So I'm gonna have barber on

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the side , too . So I pretty much do

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haircuts once a week back at home and

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here . Army drill . Whenever they need

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me , I just do their haircuts .

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Um ,

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there really accommodating . I just

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explained it to him , and they're more

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than more than happy to culminated .

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Anyway , um , with readjusting my

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schedule , creating available

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availabilities for me later on ,

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squeezing me in , just looking at that

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extra pay as well as school , giving me

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extensions or omitting some things

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and modifying it so that it helps me

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out with that . They don't really mind ,

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Uh , they just know it's been horrible

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on our nation . Like statewide

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everywhere . Covid has been hitting a

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lot of people different ways . So we're

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just here to help , and my employer's

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being like , great . They don't mind .

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They know I'm going to go and help

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other people , and they're like ,

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really good . I am specialist right ,

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and I am the Wisconsin National Guard .

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I'm Specialist Rodriguez , and I am the

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Wisconsin National Guard

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mhm .