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My name is Sergeant staff sergeant ,

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Gary Van Avery . I'm a Hollister

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section chief with the BRAVO battery ,

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19 field artillery and uh two second

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armored brigade combat team and third

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infantry division . I've been in for

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eight years . I spent my first four

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years in the army as of 12 November and

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uh also in four story , Georgia , but I

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was over in the 92nd engineer battalion .

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And then I spent my last four years in

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the army , obviously as a 13 bravo and

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field artillery for me , it's been

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great . Uh My , my plan originally was

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to switch M OS S go field artillery .

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It was always what I wanted to do even

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before I joined . So followed my plan .

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It's been great up to now . I have no ,

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no plans of stopping any time soon .

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What motivates me to serve in the US

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army right now is uh my family . I feel

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like I'm on top of serving a higher

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purpose for the United States army . I

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feel like I'm also doing this for them .