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- [Interviewer] Including your rank please.

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- My name is Corporal Heath, first name William.

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Right now I'm stationed at Marine Corp Base Quantico

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with MCIA.

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I'm out here volunteering for the Marine Corp Marathon

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that's going on today.

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I am at the 15 and a half mile marker at the Gauntlet.

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The Gauntlet is the point of the race

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where if runners haven't reached it

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by a certain time of the day we have to

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change the course route so that they can finish.

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I think the Marine Corp Marathon is important

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because it kind of gets the Marines out

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with you know, the community,

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and it gives them kind of a face to face with each other.

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What I've seen so far about the Marine Corp Marathon

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that makes it special to me is that I,

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the people that are just coming out to support

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the people running it and the disabled people

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that are running it as well with their cycles

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and just the amount of people that are coming out

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to support them.

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There are a lot of Marines out here today,

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we had quite a few show up today.

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So we have, a lot of us are Course Marshals

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where we're just basically guiding the runners

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through the course and then we have Marines

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at water points and food points

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handing out water to the runners as they reach the points

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or food, just little like gel energy,

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you know something to keep 'em going,

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some motivation, you know?

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What running with the Marines kind of means to me

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is what I was saying earlier about you know,

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getting out with the community and getting a face to face

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with Marines, it's kind of like

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the Marines are running alongside with

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just other people, you know in the D.C. area

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who just wanna run it to show their support

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and it gets that face to face,

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and I, I think it's good.