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Since October 4th , over 1500 active

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duty soldiers from 18th Airborne Corps

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have mobilized to assist residents of

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Western North Carolina in the wake of

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hurricane Helene . Today , one soldier

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from first battalion , 502nd Infantry

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Regiment , 101st Airborne Division had

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the opportunity to bring members of his

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company to his hometown of Forest City ,

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North Carolina to go to his local

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church to assist family and friends . I

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saw our pastor posted on Facebook that

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they were doing supply runs and

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everything . So I messaged my mom and

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the pastor and asked him if they were

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still doing it . They said they were ,

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I tried to get as much information as I

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could about it . Um For me being a

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North Carolina native means a lot

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because I mean , I get to help a

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community that I grew up in and it

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helped me out when my family needed it

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and everything . So it means a lot to

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actually come back and help them .

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I I've been involved in uh doing things

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like this and Katrina hit

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tornado in uh uh Alabama . So I've seen

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devastation this when he gets

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home . Uh How thank you . Just

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cry . It's hard not to cry because

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these are , uh , it , it's your own .

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I've never seen a community come

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together like they have now . We got

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donations for what I've seen , uh ,

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from Greensboro , uh Shelby , Tryon ,

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Ru County . Some of these trucks are

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coming from Indiana . So it just means

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a lot for me seeing someone

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and people we don't even know come

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together for us to help us out this

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time .