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But what happened is we were able to do

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something that was a long time coming

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provide uh Military honors for a

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veteran who has been an unmarked grave

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for over 60 years an

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amazing opportunity to work with our

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joint partners . I want the national

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partners , uh the government of

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Djibouti as well as our multinational

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partners to be able to work together uh

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to actually get this done . It was took

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a lot of effort , a lot of coordination

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to make it happen , a lot of paperwork

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and and stuff hoops to jump through ,

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but uh it's just really amazing to be

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able to come together and make this

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happen . I think it's almost two years

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in the making , so , and we usually

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kind of got to be there for the last

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seven or eight months . So that was

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pretty cool . This originally was gonna

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be something that was very low key , it

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was gonna be , you know , we were gonna

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put a headstone in , we're going to say

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a prayer and the family was going to be

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really uh I think , really excited ,

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but uh the fact that we're able to have

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all of these multinational partners ,

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our folks from Department of State and

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Veterans Affairs , uh Russian

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government and uh all our multinational

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forces was was really great , really ,

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really great to see really a an

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opportunity to see what Djibouti

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Djibouti is for us , where all of us

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can kind of come together and work

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together . It's really amazing . So we

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we could not have done this without the

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help and assistance of the Russian

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government , no way working with uh the

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prefect of Djibouti . Uh That's the

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only way we could have made this happen .

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They were very very helpful despite a

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language barrier and different ways of

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kind of doing uh working with funeral

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with with funerals and graveyards and

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stuff and how they work . Um that would

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have been able to it without them . Uh

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The family is over the moon about this ,

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they're really excited . Uh they're

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very humbled that all of this is coming

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together . Uh They were only expecting

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I think a very small ceremony and this

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is really amazing . Really cool . I

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mean we talk about Joint Interagency ,

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Intergovernmental and multinational

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operations and then you just say this

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over and over and over again in

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Djibouti , but this was one operation

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that was touched all those boxes . We

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had to work with multiple different

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service components in different units .

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We had to work with multiple different

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departments in the U . S . Government ,

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with the Djiboutian government and with

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a number of multinational forces . The

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french liaison officer helped us

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actually write the letter of request to

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the to the uh Russian government . So

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just everybody being able to work

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together to make this thing that it

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doesn't have to happen . It's not , it

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wasn't directed , it was all something

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that we that we did in in our our uh

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our spare time I guess . But it was

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really amazing to see everybody come

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together for something uh That went 60

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years without getting done , just

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really cool .