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- Well I joined the military,
and then they said hey,

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we have a slot for you in
AFE, do you want to get it now

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or do you want to wait another
six months for another job?

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Okay, let's take AFE.

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And then once I found
out, hey okay this is

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kind of interesting actually.

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I like it.

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So since I been in Niagara,
working the air equipment.

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I've had the opportunity
to travel to Andrews

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air force base, to Turkey, to the Azores,

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an island owned by Portugal,
and as well as Florida

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and Pittsburgh.

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- For me and I like the training aspect

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I like the survival aspect,
it's enjoyable to me.

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And it's something not a
lot of people get to do.

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If a person were to go
down in an aircraft,

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and have to get rescued, or have to,

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live off the land.

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A lot of people would panic,

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not know what to do,

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and they know how to combat the stress.

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Gives them a, a more of a sense of hope

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and a sense that they can make it through

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tough situations like that.

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- I get to float on a raft,
and have an air person

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come up to me, and I'm
like alright cool, show you

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guys what's happening out here.

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Work a lot with this steer instructor.

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Changing current and the changing winds,

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that all plays a huge part in everything

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and you can see the
ripples of the waves going

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they're not big at all but
they do make a big difference

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especially in this short distance swimming

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make a huge difference just
having to fight that current.

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- Yeah so the advantages
of coming here are just

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the fact that we get to experience
wind, weather, sun, rain.

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Today we had a little bit of
a struggle with the currents

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getting to the boat.

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We had to actually bail out
the water, we had people

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that were getting seasick,
people that could swim,

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people that couldn't
swim, and that's something

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that you're never gonna get in the water,

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if you're in a pool.

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(water splashing)