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I am Francisco Montano, and I am an MS four at the University of Arizona, ROTC. I am here with Mike roeval, and we're going to be conducting a veterans interview. Mike, do you want to introduce yourself? My","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=15.0,32.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: name is Michael voyval from Ventura, California, a retired military 25 years active duty awesome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=33.0,41.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: Currently we are at the Veterans of Foreign Affairs post 40 340-903-4903, so thank you for having me, sir. We're going to be going over some interview questions looking too crazy. I have you here, retired Master Sergeant Military Police and the 24th Infantry Division and then in the Third Infantry Division. Full career from February 1995 to February 2020,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=42.0,67.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: correct. Awesome. So long career. I enjoyed every minute.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=68.0,72.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: So where did you so you said you were you served? Did you ever deploy? Or","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=73.0,77.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: deployed six times throughout my career, Middle East or the Balkans. First deployment was to Egypt. I was there for four and a half months, just working main supply route, Mission controls, security ops at nighttime for the battalion I was deployed with. Returned for a few months and deployed to Kuwait. I was in Kuwait I was in Kuwait for six months, out of uduri range at the time, alias Alim Air Base, prior to it being rebuilt, flowing to camp Doha was there for a little bit. I returned for about two weeks from that deployment and was flown straight into Bosnia. I was in Bosnia for nine months on that rotation. That rotation took me started off at Camp Stevens, Camp McGovern camp. Colt was also up in Sarajevo for a little bit. Was on Tuzla base. Tuzla Maine and Eagle base also returned home, was deployed, or actually, excuse me, station in Germany, and within a few months, they sent me back to Bosnia. Went to Bosnia for another rotation. Six and a half months. I was also fortunate. I also wore customs, besides also being a military police supervisor, or NCO for some of the missions that we had conducted there, returned home. Then about a year after that, I deployed to Kosovo, beginning phases of that in the early 9919 99 phase was working as a military police there, working escorts between Kosovo, back and forth across the Adriatic into Italy Brady, see a small little port. That mission for us about six months, returned home and then deployed also to Iraq up to six just about almost six months at that location, and I was up in Kirkuk, farthest northern I guess insulation fought warrior at that location for that time frame.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=78.0,207.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: Very nice. So, so you're kind of in a unique situation, because you you were army first, and then you then transitioned into the Air Force, which service stood out to you more","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=208.0,224.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: for the Brotherhood and the camaraderie that they had, was the army that was, that was couldn't get asked for tighter knit guys. Air Force was fun, different types of locations, TV wise that we would go to. Lot of things were contracted out. So everybody was pretty much scattered everywhere on your deployment. So you did stay with your group of guys. They would just put you or integrate you with someone else. Whereas the army, we stuck together, live together, eat together, slept all of us in the same tents, Humvees or wherever at so it was a little bit tighter knit family for sure. In the army. Wasn't the Air","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=225.0,260.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: Force, okay? What was your relationship like with, like, the guys that you had that you were really close with in the army? Was it like, like they were basically brothers, or, like, were we","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=261.0,269.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: absolutely brothers? We were in each other's or we hadn't been to their weddings, or we were part of their wedding itself? It was team bonding on whether it be PT or sports, going out at nighttime, hang out, cover each other for the shifts if they needed to. It's a very tight bond. You get to be with these people, 24/7, especially on deployment, saying you know everything about them. It's a. Yeah, it's hard to describe, unless somebody's actually gone through it, has done that for that,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=270.0,306.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: and then so you deployed with these guys too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=307.0,308.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: Deployed at all. A lot of these guys, we all deployed. And, you know, I think that's where it ends up getting a tighter knit family, because, you know, everybody wants to get back home to their families or their pets, or whatever their life situation was, at home, you know, going to somewhere else for a different location. It's, you know, like being a new kid moving and you have just the people you're with that is going to make life easier for you, and because you support each other, and that's something that it's hard to find individuals that actually are want to be there for each other. And that's what the main thing was, everybody was for each other to get back home. That was the main goal, is to to get back","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=309.0,353.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: home. So while in the army, you deployed, correct me? If I'm wrong, you were you went to, you didn't go to Kuwait that was with the Air Force, right? Kuwait was Army, Army, okay, while you're deployed within the Army, was there any missions that kind of stood out to you in regard to, like, combat, or were your brothers or","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=354.0,374.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: anything that kind of started our first mission in Bosnia? That's when it was really kicking off in the 96 beginning 96 timeframe to get started, 90 end of 9596 lot of missions that we did at nighttime. The way the roads were there, they would put landmines inside of potholes and cover up full of snow so you didn't know where they were going. You know where they're at. You're always avoiding everything, freeze the cold. Get to, you know, your 11 or 12 degrees, and you get a wind chill in there, so you're the negative nines or negative 15 degrees. So, and I was a 50 Cal gunner, so I was out there in the turret, sitting up on top quite a bit of time. We did have one of our Humvees struck a landline, and it was one of the first ones just prior to getting all the up armored Humvees. Oh, no. So we had these guys. For some reason, our lieutenant told all the gunners to really to buckle down inside the Humvee. So we didn't have any guns up. It was we were just traveling back on patrol, and they first two missed it. The third one hit the land mine, and it obliterated that the front end of that Humvee. Nobody was hurt, a little ear ringing in the ears. But that picture is actually of that Humvee has been published, published, and it was at Camp Colt is where we were sitting at, where that home V was was taken to, and we found, like the brake lines and the whole front of the vehicle, you know, several feet away and up in trees, and parts were everywhere. But luckily, nobody was injured, and we was hurt, just a lot of ringing in the ears. And, you know, we, you know, again, we didn't have the upper Humvees. We were using Kevlar plates on the floorboards. We were sitting on Kevlar plates on our seats. So we were lucky. It hit the front end of that vehicle, and the engine block in the front end of the Humvee absorbed the biggest part of that blast. And but yeah, it was, it was my opener, and it was in the middle of night, you know, one o'clock in the morning when we're out there trolling around. But yeah, stuff like that, you know, makes you look at how quick life was going to be gone in a second. We actually were guns up, and everybody was outside turrets, or, you know, what have you. So our training took over for that stuff. You know, we'd follow the tracks and we'd back up to them, and we'd get what we needed out of them. We'd jump from one Humvee to another, and then drove back out on the tracks. So we knew that footprint of the Humvee tires were safe because the wing had already been on top of it. So that's how we really backed down that area off of that and then we marked it with three DOD. And the following morning, sun came up, we had a small little 360 around the area for as much as we could, for the terrain that we had to deal with. But, you know, I was an eye opener. Other times, IEDs or more tax related to choose, which is consolidated housing units, Army choose, we've had a couple of those get hit with it 2030 feet of us. So it was, it was, you never knew what was going to happen. It was always unexpected. You know, you had the right supervisors training you prior to your deployment. That stuff kicks in. So the repetition always kicked in on what to do, things like. That. So there was several times just anything can happen, whether it was IEDs, whether it was murder attacks, whether it was, you know, we've had suicides over there. We had all kinds of, you know, things. And it was maybe so much of our unit, but other units where they just couldn't take anymore. It happens they can't get home, or something happens at home. You know, they're stuck in a location. They feel like, really, other guys felt like their hands are tied.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=375.0,629.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: So one of the things that kind of stood out right there is that you said you had gotten Kevlar plates and put it down, like, where did that come from? Is that, like, unit level SOP army put that out?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=630.0,638.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: No, we've we were, we found them off of from a company browner root that was that location. And so these kept our plates and pads. They might have came in from, off of kinds. We didn't know where they were gone from. They were just like small, maybe 14 by 14, square with a plate with a canvas cover over them, and it was kind of like a bifold type. So you can double them up, or you can make them into, like an L shape, into a chair, or you can put them underneath your feet, also the floorboard, or half of the floorboard and to the front of the firewall of the vehicle itself. So we would just take these plates and just pack them all around, and professionals just protect them from underneath, from the doors. But most of the s did we just use Kepler plates, and we would just pack them around four boards","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=639.0,692.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: before the season. So you were talking about how you were able to bound up with vehicles, and you were using phase lines to kind of determine that, and you were using those also to check, to do like, kind of, like checkpoints, right? Like, hey, everybody's up. That's actually really interesting. I'm actually gonna steal that for like, future, future ops or whatever, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=693.0,712.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: It was all, you know, a lot of times you get our officers that were doing up orders for us, and we would have a sandbox out there that was all gridded out to our locations and what we're going to be doing and what we think that the terrain is like. And, you know, we look at that, we make our own notes based off of that. So then we go back and brief our rest of our squad, or tuner, whatever the size element that work is, just a team. So it all varied. It was all fluid. So it was always be ready for change on a lot of that stuff. So,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=713.0,747.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: yeah, okay, so you guys actually went out to your, like, like, a terrain model, and like, was like, Hey, this is where we're at. This is where we're going. This is what's gonna happen. Why? Really, wow,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=748.0,757.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: that's cool. And they would do it either it's sometimes, you know, they might have had it set up somewhere in a staging area of where we're headed to what we're doing was built up. Some are going just right down there dirt. Draw it out with your finger. Some have maps just we improvise with everything we're doing just to get the mission completed. A lot of times it was just figuring there, just running around,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=758.0,783.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: do it real quick. You're looking","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=784.0,787.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: for disorienting ourselves to a map that we added a lot of episodes. Was old school. But, you know, back then, you know, because 95 the GPS pluggers were barely coming out to set your way points and what have you to mark where you're at locations. It was all back in the day when I was and I'm not even back in the day guy, but compass,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=788.0,812.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: that's crazy to think about him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=813.0,814.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: Now they have the Blue Force trackers, and honestly, yeah, we didn't, we didn't have that equipment back back there. 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It could be either a flight line or it could be with another unit being attached to something that someone else just to do, Mission Support stuff. It varied living conditions. Huge difference, not no offense to the army. There's huge difference between Air Force combinations and army combinations. So we stayed at dynavis. These was the same thing, lobsters every night. So they get two MRIs, and hopefully somebody gave you something else you can find the back then was the MKT as mobile kitchen trucks out there driving around. And, you know, try to get one pulled over and try to get something because they're headed back restock. They know mostly MPs were stuck out there by themselves for the next 12 hours, but it was always good times. You know, I learned one thing from one of my squad leaders, and every night he'd find a location, and we'd circle up, and we would have kind of our own downtime, but he wanted to make sure everybody's mental health was on point, really. So we would sit and circle out just before sunset, and we'd break out our MREs and what are we having to eat? And we would sit there and everybody talked about their day and their mission, and have they heard from home, or do they need to hear from home? And ask what? You know, are we good for equipment, and, you know, kind of the big balance checks, you know, for we need it. And that squad leader, he was, he was amazing that he brought it up to the tune Sergeant so get with the lieutenant driver, whatever things that we need, whether it's extra cases of water, whether it's Mrs. Whether it's something that broke from, like your tent or your sleeping bag or what have you been most of us, you know, in the army, we slept all the time in our own piece. I was a gunner, so I slept up on top of the turret all the time. The driver usually slept on top of the hood, between the window and the D rings the team here when he was always sitting inside the vehicle, sleeping in there. He's got the radio on, so he's waiting for something or a call to come out, he start taking down the information while the driver gets everything unchoked for the vehicle, gets it all prepped, and he has a gunner getting done up. So it was always systematic. So that was always part of the training. We always used to do, too, was go out in the field. And basically, practice, practice, practice, everything. It was systematic. It was just, it was automatic to do each other's job.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=841.0,1029.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: So you talked about training, like, is there any specific training that kind of stood out for you, especially, like, even, even, like training up to deploy or anything like while you were at a home station. That's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1030.0,1044.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: really stood out. Stood out because we did it so much of everything in the same thing, because it was the main thing was to make sure everybody's on the same page. Everybody like they, I mean, broken down to our Humvees were all set up the same way. So if we had an accident, wonder, we needed something out of the other Humvee. We knew exactly where to go because it was at the same location uniformity. I mean, that was, that was the biggest thing that we did new training, you know, could have been doing land nav to a point, and getting e backed out of there from with a Black Hawk helicopter, you know, to drop us off somewhere else. We had to land that back to our original point. Yeah, one thing also in the army, I was canine too. So I was fortunate to go to Canine school. So when I was at my base in Fort Bradley, Kansas, that was I was a narcotics patrol dog handler. So that was fun to deal with that too. And even during that time frame, a lot of surrounding law enforcement agencies do not have the funds and the money for a dog, for a Ken off the train, all that stuff, feeding medical stuff like that. So we used to support the surrounding counties with canine support. So nothing for me to go when I was in Fort Riley to go to, you know, another city, you know, an hour away, because they need something. They need help. We were always TDY or deployed or training, or, I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1045.0,1132.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: didn't even know that was an","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1133.0,1134.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: option. That's cool,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1135.0,1136.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: cool, yeah. And then, uh, so, like, while you were doing that keen on him like anything else. Like stand out to you? I'm trying to get you like most vivid memories outside of that, that Bosnia deployment, besides","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1137.0,1152.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: that, sometimes it","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1153.0,1160.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: gets so after me, I've been out for almost, actually, just taking five years out, you know, a lot of it, you know, I miss a lot of it, and I forget a lot of those things, until maybe something I do, it might key me back to that one time location. So it's kind of, it's kind of not saying a word, but it's kind of like, I guess hidden or just not in my head anymore. Sometimes, I guess I could say that it's kind of weird to say,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1161.0,1189.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: does that what about the early days of your of your service? Like, does anything stand out from there? Like, where'd you go to basic training?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1190.0,1195.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: My basic training is at Fort McCulloch, Alabama, which is Anna. In Alabama. It's no longer there serving after I fell out there a few years later, they were, they were transitioning to Fort Leonard Wood for the army, military base school. So I never went there. It's like, I've never been to that base for anything so. But, you know, while I was still in army, there was people coming from where I was one of the older guys that came from Anniston, Alabama, different coming from Southern California. I've never been involved with tornadoes or hurricanes or humidity or what have you. So that was an eye opener. Being sent to Fort Stewart, Georgia was another eye opener for that as far as the weather, yeah, all the PT runs the one time frame and you're soaking away before you walk out to the formation. Just yeah, first time doing the humidity was a big change, big difference. You know, kid from the small little beach community was average is 72 degrees or 68 degrees every day. 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Well, the weird thing is, you know, when I was in Kuwait during the whole summertime of 1996 when I came back, I was only back for like three and a half weeks before I went from 140 to the 20s of a transition when I got to Bosnia, it was because I got back in September. Time frame for from Kuwait, yeah, October I was in Bosnia. So it was three and a half weeks,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1269.0,1296.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: actually. So something I have so those are one of the questions on here is, did anybody have a big impact on you while you were serving? So you mentioned that that's one Squall leader, right? I think that's huge, like, the fact that he took the time","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1297.0,1310.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: to kind of check he stands out every day, every week. You know, I always think about that guy, where he's at, and I found out he was still a poor steward. Yeah, he's a civilian contractor there at the base. He works with the provost Marshall's office, and a lot of things I did, like with my units, or when I was deployed, I was in charge of people, guys that we'd go somewhere. I did a lot of things that he showed me what he did, and that was one of those things is to make sure, checking up on everybody every night and every morning, to make sure, you know, I have need us at the dining facility. One time frame, we all ate together. We broke off from there. I wouldn't see him for the entire day. Then I make sure, you know, running to all of them at nighttime, whether I walk to their wherever the living quarters linemen attempt, or if they were working nights, you know, I go to their their location, if they're working on an operation center, or just say you get it, got your mail, you can call them home, what have you. But, you know, I always made a check to throw a point to check on all but that was something that, you know, he drilled into us about, like, if we stay in the same long enough, shoot your people are are mentally there absolutely check and check on them all the time, because it's, it's very easy to get in your own little world and just go back to your your tent, or your your little housing unit, jump on the computer and do whatever, watch a movie or, you know, go to dinosaurs, grab stuff. That was one thing about the Air Force. You know, they always had nighttime dinosaurs. They're always open at 12 o'clock, one o'clock in the morning. So sometimes we look up there because we're not doing something","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1311.0,1415.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: else. Did anyone else ever stand up because they might have to steal that that's honestly a good SOP.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1416.0,1420.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: So that's gonna happen","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1421.0,1421.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: during your army standing. What was the thing you're most proud of? I don't","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1422.0,1435.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: know. It was nothing really stood out with it. With it and that, I mean, it was, it was kind of weird. It was just","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1436.0,1448.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 3: every day, just doing something, you know, I think my, my best moments was when I was canine, but the hardest moment was when I had to leave my canine back to the kennels as I drove out back to your fort. Riley home. By my time at Fort overwin, I tried to keep the dog and Army. Army, basically, nope. And because they look at it as an asset or tool, and so I was stuck, and I just really had to turn him over and leave him there. That's after having him for a couple years, driving out that gate. You know, I look at him as I'm driving through, if you see it through here, and he's outside thinking I'm going back to, like, to barracks or something like that, when I'm actually going out to the interstate and driving home and never coming back for the rest of my life. Now. The hardest thing, I think, I think sometimes that takes a little bit some of the good stuff is how you leave locations when you eat, when you PCs, or getting out ATS and transitioning you're leaving behind, you know, years of families that you know you're basically hanging out with all the time with working shifts with or, you know, what have you just the good times.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814#t=1449.0,1530.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2980/collection_resources/153719/file/282814/transcript/81691/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPEAKER 2: So that being said, like, what advice would you give people that are trying to get in now? 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Also gets you into a family, gets you eliminates that loneliness, I guess, instead of just, you know, going back to your room and play whatever PlayStation games or watching TV or whatever advice you might have, getting involved in the people there, you know, if you're dorms or barracks or whatever you want to call them, and hanging out, well, there's just, you know, you know, some of the schools I went to my group when I was the team leader, but you know, it was all, we were all foodies. 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