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can you just say and spell your name

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and where you're from first name is

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Mariana . L . A . U . R . I . A . N . A .

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Last name . Lopez . L . O . P . Z . I'm

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from Chicago but born in Dominican

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republic . And why did you want to join

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the army ? Um I feel like since like I

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was in high school I want to do J . R .

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T . C . In my school kind of like was

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going to give me the opportunity but

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the year I um signed for they took it

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away so it kinda took my dreams of it

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and then I have like a lot of friends

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I've joined it so I just wanted to go

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for it . Yes sir .

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What was your

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um the reading part ? Like the war

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knowledge because english is my second

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language . So like different words mean

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a different language like the meanings

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and stuff like that . So it's kinda

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hard for me . So like the words and

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stuff like that .

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They taught me like different ways and

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me and like my battle buddies , they

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also helped me a lot of the people I

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had their um studying more and they

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taught me tips on how to remember the

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words and their meanings and stuff like

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that . How did it

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help you prepare you for basic training

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When I when I came here the first day I

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already knew some of the things I had

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advantage from other the other kids . I

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mean the other trainees and stuff like

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that so it was more easy for me and

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when the charges were talking and stuff ,

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I already knew what they were expecting

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of us , not like the other trainees and

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stuff like that . I'm a 92 golf

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culinary specialist . Um

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um I was getting I was when I

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was before joining the army , I wanted

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to go to culinary school , so getting

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the opportunity of getting that job was

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kind of a good thing . What did your

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family think about ? My mom really

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approved of it ? My aunt was kind of

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like , so so the first thing they think

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about the army to think the war and I

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was gonna die and stuff like that . My

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mom was more approving because she

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wanted my brother to join it too , but

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I decided to one up him and go first

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before him before he joined .

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Are they going to be here arriving

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today actually ?

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Yeah , my mom probably gonna

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cry a lot and my brother is gonna be

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probably showing me off to his friends .

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It's just personally then . So you had

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to go through the whole journey to get

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where you're at graduating basic

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training in two days . How's it feel ?

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How's it been ? It's kind of like kind

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of weird because I feel like what it

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took me so long to do this , but I'm

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excited to get this over it and leave

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for Jackson .

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Jackson . Yeah , I've been here for

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five months experience like my battle

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buddies upstairs to be like , I want to

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leave and I'm like you've only been

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here for two months , imagine being for

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five months longer than that . It's

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kind of like too much

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um Like for like for new

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trainees or they decide to use that

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program like to go to their the

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instructors because they will actually

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help you and teach you the way that

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you're you're gonna pass the test .

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Like everything that they tell you is

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how you should do it , because that

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helps you pass the test , like they're

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not lying to you and it's easy once you

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get to that step , that's perfect .

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Thanks .