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sure anne Krueger A . N . N . P . R U G

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E . R . So I'm in the 16th SIA

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battalion upstate new york Syracuse .

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Um I switched army reserves because I

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wanted to see what else was out there

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and pursue a secondary education but I

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still wanted to keep my army identity .

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It's something that I really enjoy and

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I kind of wanted to hang on to and I

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also wanted the opportunity to go back

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and make the military my full time gig

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again if I , if I needed to . So it was

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a good way to keep my foot in the door .

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Uh I told us that because I was so high

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up on active duty and I enjoyed it . I

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really like the people , I feel like

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it's a , it's an excellent team . Just

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we just , I mean I'm biased but I think

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we got better folks than a lot of , a

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lot of different branches and I wanted

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to stick around with it . Uh but in the

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reserves it's really balancing how to

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make sure you're still taking care of

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yourself and your , your full time life ,

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but also keeping , keeping the ball

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rolling constantly . Um Having those

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constant touch points with your folks ,

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even even throughout its , it's one

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weekend a month . Sure . But to get

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that one weekend to work , you still

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got to reach out to people and stay a

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team every week in preparation for it .

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So I think that's challenging , but

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it's kind of the fun of it . You really

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get , you get to know people and and

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stay in touch . I like the opportunity .

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Uh So I think I joined the army because

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I had an expensive travel addiction uh

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and they told me that they would fund

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it . Uh and , and they have , and

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especially inside up I've been able to ,

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to really go see the world . I've done

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22 deployments and got to see a bunch

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of different places too . You know ,

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two different , very different parts of

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the world . I like having a language ,

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I like thinking about international

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mission sets and how to , how to

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influence large groups of people and

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kind of bringing the marketing piece in .

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And uh really the creative thinking

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aspect of it is really good . If you

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have a good idea , you can really think

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critically about something , people

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will run with it , it doesn't matter

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what rank you are . Mhm . Team players ,

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if you're not , if you're not a good

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team player , if you're not somebody

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that people will want on your team and

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can really count on you won't make it

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here . Someone who can , is willing to

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think autonomously , someone who's

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willing to be brave and and try new

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things and make mistakes and learn from

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them . Um and somebody who's willing to

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take on big challenges . I've been the

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ranking psyop foreign country before ,

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um , in big NATO exercises and uh , you

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know , I didn't know everything there

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was to know , but I had a good team and

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we figured it out . I would ask if how

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they felt about languages , how they

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felt about traveling . Um , and , and

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how they felt about , you know , bold

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and daring mission sets . There's a lot

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about sigh up . That's uh , information

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wise that we're on the cutting edge of ,

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because we've got , we've got social

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media now infantry has done infantry

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things forever . But WhatsApp is

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figuring out how to use all these new

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technical advancements on how people

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talk to each other , how people get

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their news , how people communicate in

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order to influence people . So the

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doctrine is changing all the time and I

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think that's important to know . And if

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that's something that interests you ,

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then this is a good place to be