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Yeah ,

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yeah ,

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it was when we had the

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first meeting with my senior drill

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instructor , he honestly sat us down in

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the squad bay and was just like ,

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listen gentlemen , your hair and you

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are the first , This is the first time

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that we're integrating both male and

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female and into 4th Italian . And that

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history has been made with you guys ,

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everyone says , oh , you're gonna be

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the first , you're making history , but

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then it just kind of feels like normal ,

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you're just going to boot camp , you're

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going to get , you know , it's become a

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marine , I guess it was weird at first

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because , you know , as a female ,

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going into the military , you're told

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all kinds of stories that will

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intimidate you about the male dominated

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field and things like that throughout

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this entire cycle , it's like all of

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that just faded away . We're going

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through the same things . And you know ,

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for example , the first PT session we

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had , I had my female counterparts

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running with me , but then I also had

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males running next to me and we all

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just pushed each other to be better and

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the competition was great . So

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I I do believe that it brings us closer

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together and it gives us a better

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appreciation for what's going on

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between each other . I mean Going on a

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crucible or going on a hike and you're

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walking , you know , with 50 lb pack

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and assist the next to you . She's

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doing the same thing . It makes you

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respect . Hey , I better not pass out

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because she's doing it , you know and

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so it gives you that respect that women

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can do anything and did you just

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it's difficult to explain but it's

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humbling . It's humbling to know that

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you know , they got this just the same

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way we do and any one of them that are

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out there . I trust I trust that they

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got my back and they know what they

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because of just the way I saw females

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go to the past three months .

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Mm

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Yeah .