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it's a historic event , one of a kind

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for me , this was pretty huge to be a

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part of definitely the two words I

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would use our humble and grateful

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during the Afghanistan Neo . I received

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an emergency no notice support request

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from the Department of State To provide

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a safe refuge for 51 contract working

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dogs out of H . Kaaya . My job was to

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ensure that they had a place to stay

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and a flight back to the States .

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All that day started off with me

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receiving an email Stating that we

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would be receiving them throughout the

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week . And 10 minutes into responding

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to that email , I received a phone call

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from the flight line stating we have 51

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dogs on the flight line took us 96

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hours from the time that they landed to

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the time that they took off for

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the absent Neo , I was embedded within

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the wing . So I helped with visual

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documentation of everything going on ,

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good , bad and ugly , going around and

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documented everything . I got a nice

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kind of bird's eye view of most of the

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operations conducted here at all . You

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d Yeah , so for me , some of the most

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impactful things that documented was

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the people uh seeing their expressions

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as I got off these planes and the

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hangers , um there was a lot of

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emotions , there's a lot going on .

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Yeah , so basically my job during the

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Neo was to reunite displaced families

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once they got off the plane , um some

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of the busses would go to different

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locations . So some people would be

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missing their family members . So we

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would transport them and with the

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assistance of the State Department . Um

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there's definitely one instance that I

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can really remember and it was a mother

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and daughter . They were separated from

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their dad and we had to go get the

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father and transport him to his wife

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and daughter and when they saw each

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other their faces just lit up . Even

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though the situation wasn't desirable ,

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they were still able to find ways to be

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happy just because we're together . Mhm .

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Yeah , mm .