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it's pretty exciting for the whole

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family myself , his mother and his

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stepdad . It's a legacy , It's

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something that , you know , you don't

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really think about when you're a parent ,

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uh you always kind of wonder if what

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their career path is going to be and

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you're curious to see what they

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embraces their passion growing up

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around all the marines , being around

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the atmosphere for my whole life I

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guess . Just kind of influenced me to

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do it . Um at the same time I wanna

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like do something I want to serve and

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do something that's like a lot more

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bigger than myself . So yeah , I wanna

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make people proud . My family

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especially . Yeah , so we had some open

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discussions about it between myself and

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uh his mom heather and his stepdad jim

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as well as my wife Reagan , we all had

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conversations about it and what that

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was gonna look like for his future , um

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how you know what mos he wanted and

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what he might be good at and things

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like that . So the conversations kind

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of gradually progressed over time . I

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think we influenced him in a lot of

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ways to show him that you know , the

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Marine Corps is a is a great

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opportunity . It's not a last resort

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Marine Corps obviously is a big big

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deal in my family . Um and they did not

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take it lightly whenever I was talking

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to when I first started talking to them

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about it . And so uh I think I can

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remember the reaction my mom and my

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stepdad were both kind of like

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enthusiastic about it , they were like

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trying to get me like pushed me kind of

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into it a little bit , you know like

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shoved me like forced me to do it , but

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you know they try to push me that way a

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little bit more than I was thinking I

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was and then um you know I talked to my

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dad and he thinks it's a great thing .

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Probably the last thing I said to him

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over at Meps was I'm proud of him , you

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know this isn't this is a great

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opportunity for him . Uh but I

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understand being prior listed , I

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understand what that eagle globe and

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anchor means , I understand what it's

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like to earn the title Marine . It's a

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it's the most pure you will ever feel

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in the Marine corps , it's the most

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marine you'll ever feel . Is that

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graduation , the chills that he gets uh

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the accolades that come his way after

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graduation from family and friends . Uh

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and I mean I'm gonna tell him I'm proud

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of him , that I love him and that he's

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accomplished something that only a

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small percentage of americans can

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actually accomplish . Alright let's go ,

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let's go , let's go .

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Right , mhm .

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And got it completely opposite everyone .

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Right . Right , go go go .

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Mhm mm .

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Mhm .

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I I saw him as soon as I we got

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information for the globe and anchor

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ceremony and as soon as I saw him um I

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was just like I kinda just froze there

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and I was like there's no way that's my

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father . But no it was it was him and

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it was just shocking . And as soon as

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he came up to me he called me over

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after the ceremony had ended after we

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had got put our packs down in formation ,

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we were kind of just waiting there for

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the next movement to start going down a

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mountain . Um He called me over and I'm

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gonna be honest I literally just like

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got so I got so emotional just him

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talking to me . So um it was shocking .

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It was awesome . It was incredible . It

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was all the positive adjectives that

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you can put the sentence . It was it

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was amazing . You always want to see

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your kids be successful right ? Whether

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you watch them in t ball , watching

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them play football , whether watch them

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playing basketball or whatever , you

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want your kid to score the points . You

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want your kid to get the most playing

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time because you want to be their

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cheerleader , right ? This is one of

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those experiences . You don't get to be

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a cheerleader for right ? They have to

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do this on their own . They have to

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earn it . They have to earn that title

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on their own . And uh but to be able to

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be a spectator at the end and see the

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final score essentially without seeing

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the place that happened was was truly a

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remarkable experience and something

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I'll remember forever . And honestly

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when I was driving back from from camp

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Pendleton from camp Edson when I was

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driving back to um M . C . R . D . That

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day I thought went into my head and I

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was like man I honestly feel like I

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just passed the torch like almost like

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I'm good like it's that's it you know

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and uh and that was something that I'll

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remember and something that was very

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impactful for me in my career

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personally I joined to become the man

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that I always wanted to be . Um And to

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try and stay away from being a man that

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I didn't want to be in . That . The

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thing I'm most proud of is becoming I

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don't think I'm ever gonna regret this

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decision . That's why I thought gosh

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it's weird it's weird being it's just

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so weird . It's a weird feeling it's

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incredible and like I said it's

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everything positive I can say but it

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was hard it was very hard . It was

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harder than I thought it would be . Um

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But I think being here right now and

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like you know finishing boot camp and

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moving on to M . C . T . And then my M .

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O . School and then the fleet . Um

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Those are all goals now um on the

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timeline for me I'm just ready to I'm

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ready to knock it all out . The only

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thing I would say is what we'll talk to

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you about before is you know you've got

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to name tapes on your on your uniform

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right your last name You can change any

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day of the week . You can go to the

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county court's office and you can

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change it if you want to . Uh and it's

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something that somebody gave you ,

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right ? I mean I gave you my last name .

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That's how that works , right ? This

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though is something you learned and

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nobody can ever take that away except

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for yourself . So you got to protect

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what you've learned moving forward uh

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and be proud of what you've learned ,

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that eagle globe and anchor that beats

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now inside your chest , right ? Because

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it replaced your heart . Because that's

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where all your desire and strength and

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passion , everything about the Marine

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Corps that you've learned here is

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what's gonna be your why moving forward .

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So I'd say that you know , remember

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that as you continue on your career and

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remember how hard you worked for the

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last 13 weeks and don't let everybody

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ever take it away from you . Yeah .

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Oh Voice Sir .

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Yeah .