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I started with the L . A . in April of

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2002 after my boss in deployment with

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the Army National Guard flying

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helicopters overseas . I had put in for

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the job before I deployed and I came

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back and fell right into the position

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in April 2002 when I came here was

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defense supply center Richmond and I

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worked in a product center which was

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the type of grouping per item that

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delay used at the time to uh procure

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items . When I first started off , I

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wasn't quite as computer savvy but

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through Della opportunity I've been

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able to go to computers courses and and

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workbook courses to develop my computer

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skills Back then it was with a minimum

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amount of computer education , you

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could pretty much do your job but I had

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to take those courses because as time

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has gone on more and more computer

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capability had to be utilized during 9

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11 , I was deployed to Bosnia after 9

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11 and around the 2000 and 5 to 2000

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and seven timeframe , I was deployed to

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Iraq and then in 2011 to

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2013 I was deployed as a rare

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member as a helicopter pilot at fort

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uses because of this D surf mission .

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So I've had some periods of active duty

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time that have pulled him away from my

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delay job . Well I do remember right

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before I left to get deployed during

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9:11 and how the op temper was

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increased because of all the terrorist

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activity . And then we had 9 11 and

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unfortunately I was deployed as a

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military member . So I do know that the

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up tempo here back at home was pretty

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extreme . And I remember writing back

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and uh communicating with some of my

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bosses back here while I was deployed

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in Iraq and it was really pretty uh

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harry things going on . It was just the

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up tempo was just so increased because

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of all the activity and delay was right

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there in the focal point delivering

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products to the war fighters being a

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combat aviator , which a lot of people

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tease me about . I'd see where DL

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aviation is so important because I've

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lived that life on the other side in my

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in my military service where Della has

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come in and supported us and kept us

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going because without parts we can't

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fly The L . A . is so important to so

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many aspects to the mission that's

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going on out there and we supply so

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many parts and so many goods and so

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many services . That's 60 years of

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service to the warfighter keeping our

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nation safe . That's nothing to be uh

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not proud about . We should all be

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proud of the fact that we're out there

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supporting our military during their

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mission and for 60 years D . L . A .

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has been a vital part of that . So we

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should be also , we should be proud of

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that