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My initial visit was about eight

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minutes because that's all the time

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they allotted me because they wanted me

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in and out of that school during that

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time . They , they just got to know me

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as a person and they got to know my

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intentions as not , not a recruiter ,

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not a marine , but as a human , my

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personal goals . And I think that's

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what they noticed about me was

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different than all the other recruiters

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they had worked with . Whereas other

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recruiters there , first thing to say

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is what I want to give them the

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opportunity to become marines . Uh The

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first thing I told them was I just want

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to make sure that these kids are

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successful in the future . I mean ,

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these guys are the future of America

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and it's important is this for you ,

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for them to go to college and get an

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education . It's important for me to

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know that they can make it there with

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zero to no speak , you know , bumps on

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the okay . I'm not just here to get

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your money back or I'm here to make you

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meet your goals . If you're supposed to

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be a cop when you come back to boot

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camp . I got you the recruiter . We

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know what you gotta do . We know your

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package and I just continuously set

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follow ups even after the fact that the

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whole , you know , M C R D pool card

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pack card has been closed down in the

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cribs . It's just that the human ,

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human interaction . So , yes , prep was

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a , it was a school that hadn't

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produced for three years . Nobody was

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able to get a contract out of that

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school . The school is varied to charge

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school six through 12 . And it's

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extremely , their foundation is built

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on these students that come to our

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school will go to college and that's

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the only route they will ever go . So

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when I , you know , making phone calls

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to these um to the schools and trying

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to get into school was difficult , just

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even getting past the front door was

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hard in uniform because I needed to

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have a reason why I was going in . By

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the time I found my first contract ,

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she , she was my , my way in

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because a lot of people get , they have

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the and told me this , um , it's kind

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of like you have your favorite , which

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is when they're in process and then

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they , they become a pulley and then

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now they're not your favorite . Now

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they find another favorite . And that's

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what , what I didn't want to do as a

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recruiter . I wanted to impact uh these ,

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these teenagers , these , these humans

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and to a point where they would kill

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their friends . And that's , that's

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exactly what happened . I impacted her .

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I became her first mentor . The school

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acknowledged me as a person that was

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able to change her . She received

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Fulbright scholarships for her sports

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and she still denied them because she

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knew that the Marine Corps was gonna be

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something that , that she can strive to

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be successful in because of her mentor ,

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which , which is good .