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I am Sergeant Jennifer Jackson . I'm

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the Health physics N . C . O . I . C .

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For Public Health Command , pacific The

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current mission here for health physics

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is to provide radiation safety to not

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only Japan but for the entire pacific

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region . I love my job . I love it

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because it's something completely

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different from what I'm used to .

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Wonderful thing , a powerful thing to

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be a woman , to be a woman in the

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service and to be a woman of color . I

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just try to be as powerful and to be

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able to be that powerhouse . Although

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females that come before me that have

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died that has sacrificed blood , sweat

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and tears , it's the price that they

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pay for me to wear these boots that I

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wear to be able to march to be able to

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stand next to male soldiers and to be

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able to serve and do the same job as

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them . That's me giving back to the

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whole purpose of me even being here .

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My first duty station was Fort

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Leavenworth Kansas . I served in the

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color guard at every time that I put on

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my class A's . Each time that I shined

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my US insignia of my medical produces

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when I had to high march , making sure

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my knees were parallel to the marching

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surface . It gave me pride . Not only

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just that I was representing myself ,

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but I was representing women , not only

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women , but women of colour women in

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uniform and that gave me pride . That

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is why we represent women's equality

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observance because we're represents

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something totally higher than ourselves .

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It's femininity and it's powerful and

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the power is unmatched .