WEBVTT 00:05.119 --> 00:07.008 My name is Master sergeant Lamont 00:07.008 --> 00:09.210 Bradford . I am originally from uh 00:09.220 --> 00:12.100 Forest Mississippi . I currently reside 00:12.109 --> 00:14.276 in Severn Maryland and I'm a member of 00:14.276 --> 00:16.442 the 3/11 Military History Attachment . 00:16.442 --> 00:20.360 I have 27 years in uh about 15 of that 00:20.370 --> 00:23.969 is active . I started off uh as an E 00:23.979 --> 00:26.229 four hr I was working at our 00:26.239 --> 00:28.790 headquarters , switched over to uh 00:28.799 --> 00:30.410 medical command and then the 00:30.410 --> 00:32.466 opportunity arose for me to become a 00:32.466 --> 00:34.577 part of a public Affairs detachment . 00:34.577 --> 00:36.790 Uh reclast to , to the 46 series . 00:36.799 --> 00:39.077 Basically , we're the tip of the spear . 00:39.077 --> 00:41.021 We go out , we gather oral history 00:41.021 --> 00:42.966 interviews , we gather documents , 00:42.966 --> 00:45.132 anything that just tells what the army 00:45.132 --> 00:47.410 is doing at this time in this location . 00:47.410 --> 00:49.632 I was fortunate to have the opportunity 00:49.632 --> 00:51.743 to work center of military history at 00:51.743 --> 00:51.529 Fort mcnair in DC . When they are the 00:51.540 --> 00:53.429 proponent agency for the military 00:53.429 --> 00:55.318 history detachment . We wanted to 00:55.318 --> 00:58.569 rebuild what that feeder M Os was for 00:58.580 --> 01:00.691 military history . Currently , it's , 01:00.691 --> 01:03.040 you have to have that 46 series . So uh 01:03.049 --> 01:06.000 they looked at uh 46 they looked at 42 . 01:06.010 --> 01:08.177 They looked at mostly the admin M Os S 01:08.177 --> 01:10.288 paralegal , stuff like that . Just to 01:10.288 --> 01:12.470 get a , a bigger pool of candidates to 01:12.480 --> 01:14.591 actually fill these positions because 01:14.591 --> 01:16.813 military history , attachments are very 01:16.813 --> 01:19.036 important . We are the tip of the spear 01:19.036 --> 01:21.258 that helps , right . The army history . 01:21.290 --> 01:23.290 So if we don't have people in those 01:23.290 --> 01:27.069 roles to do that job , in essence , you 01:27.080 --> 01:29.024 can lose a part of history and you 01:29.024 --> 01:31.247 don't wanna lose history . I've been to 01:31.470 --> 01:33.192 the Philippines , I've been to 01:33.192 --> 01:35.879 Afghanistan um here in Poland And I 01:35.889 --> 01:38.639 believe just the impact that you have 01:38.650 --> 01:41.110 just people that remember you , the , 01:41.349 --> 01:43.571 the friendships that you make . I think 01:43.571 --> 01:45.738 that's the most memorable thing . Just 01:45.738 --> 01:47.793 knowing that you created a bond with 01:47.793 --> 01:50.016 somebody that , that has um like traits 01:50.016 --> 01:52.071 like , like personality , you know , 01:52.071 --> 01:54.405 just si similarities . That means a lot . 01:54.405 --> 01:56.460 We're in United States army garrison 01:56.460 --> 01:58.682 Poland , they just created a new United 01:58.682 --> 02:00.738 States army garrison Black Sea . I'm 02:00.738 --> 02:02.849 here for that . We're gonna try to go 02:02.849 --> 02:05.071 out and capture some uh historical data 02:05.071 --> 02:07.419 on that . You don't realize what you do 02:08.628 --> 02:10.798 makes an impact until you actually see 02:10.809 --> 02:13.069 it . And I'm fortunate that I had the 02:13.078 --> 02:17.059 opportunity to see what I was doing had 02:17.070 --> 02:19.126 an impact . My name may not be on it 02:19.429 --> 02:23.130 but personal satisfaction . I know I 02:23.139 --> 02:25.195 was there when this happened , I was 02:25.195 --> 02:27.195 there when that happened . The most 02:27.195 --> 02:29.417 overlooked aspect is they don't know we 02:29.417 --> 02:33.100 exist . And I think if the history 02:33.110 --> 02:36.630 detachments were more mainstream as far 02:36.639 --> 02:38.600 as like just recognition , we go a 02:38.610 --> 02:40.832 whole a whole lot farther . Uh We get a 02:40.832 --> 02:42.721 whole lot more information so the 02:42.721 --> 02:44.777 historians can write that history of 02:44.777 --> 02:46.777 what had actually transpired during 02:46.777 --> 02:49.160 these times . What I hope that future 02:49.169 --> 02:51.336 generations see from the information I 02:51.336 --> 02:53.990 gather is just that continue , you 02:54.000 --> 02:56.300 can't stop writing history . If you 02:56.309 --> 02:58.531 don't know your history , you're doomed 02:58.531 --> 03:00.309 to repeat it . You don't want a 03:00.309 --> 03:03.160 repetition of either past conflicts or 03:03.169 --> 03:06.160 past failures to continue . I'm really 03:06.169 --> 03:08.280 fortunate that I have the opportunity 03:08.280 --> 03:10.502 to be a part of military attachment . I 03:10.502 --> 03:12.725 found it by the grace of God . I mean , 03:12.725 --> 03:14.891 it's afforded me an opportunity to see 03:14.891 --> 03:17.058 things that I didn't think I would see 03:17.058 --> 03:16.770 to be a part of things . I didn't know 03:16.779 --> 03:18.835 I'd be a part of , to be that tip of 03:18.835 --> 03:21.057 the spear of history . And then knowing 03:21.057 --> 03:24.710 that what I put together in the next 03:24.720 --> 03:27.419 1015 or 20 years is gonna be somewhere 03:27.429 --> 03:29.619 in a book written , this is what 03:29.630 --> 03:32.960 happened and I can look at that and say 03:33.279 --> 03:33.919 I was there .