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After a while , you just decide . Well ,

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hey , this , this whole life , it's ,

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you know , kind of , it's kind of

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boring , you know , you gotta do

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something to mix it up , stop joining

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the army , you know , to be able to see

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a little bit more than just that little

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small corner of the world . Expand your

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horizons . Get out there and see some

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new people do new things , make some

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good money while doing it too . It was

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working great a it , it's going

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smoothly getting along with my

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classmates learning something new every

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day and just overall glad to be here

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serving my country in the process . You

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know , it's just a win win situation

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here . I'm in a 14 Echo M OS and what

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we do , we , we deal with three

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different systems , the , the ecs , the

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radar and as well as the Epp . So

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essentially what we do , we learn how

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to track and engage missiles but also

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aircraft , keeping the skies safe . So

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that way the people on the ground ,

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they , they don't have to stress about

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what's going on around them . They can

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focus on the mission at hand and our

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mission at hand . For them is to keep

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them safe and threats from above man .

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My uncle , he , he used to work for

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Raytheon . So he , he kept pushing me .

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Hey , you got brains . You got smart ,

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you have to do something with that . Go

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to the army , go air missile defense .

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That's what I did , Sonny . So I said ,

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all right , I'll go with the recruiter

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and I talked to him about it . He said ,

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all right , we got this 14 echo . Mo si

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said , what's that ? He said , that's

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it . That's air defense . You're gonna

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be shooting missiles . I said , all

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right , that's exactly what I wanna do .

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That's what my uncle is trying to get

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me in for . So that's what I did

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following in his footsteps . And man ,

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he's been proud as all . Get out . It's

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more than just , you know , working

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with your hands . You're also using

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your brain too . So you get it , you

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get it , it's a 50 50 . You know , you

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get some , get some calluses on your

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hands , but you also get some calluses

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in your brain too . You get to wear

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them both out . You know , you'll be ,

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you'll be learning how to fix this here .

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A radar piece right here , for example .

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But also you're learning how it works

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too . So you get to learn how to use it

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well and fix it up and use it

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effectively in a theater or any combat

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zone . You may be going to