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right . Yeah .

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Well I've been with disposition

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services for 25 years and I started

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here at headquarters in Battle Creek .

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However , I have worked in Keizer

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slaughter and at our site as well as at

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DST europe and Africa and then I

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returned here to headquarters in Battle

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Creek . I was a four target seven

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when I started and I am now at GS 13 .

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When I first started with disposition

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services . When we would run reports

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from certain systems , there would be a

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dot matrix printer in a closet that

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we'd have to go retrieve the report

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from . It's loud enough that no one

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wanted in the office next to them . So

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it would be in the closet in the

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hallway . We'd have to use that . One

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of the biggest changes is likely um ,

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the volume of people that you work with

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physically day to day . There's been a

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great shift in the virtual environment .

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It started slowly with maybe some tele

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work and now we're in an environment

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where we may not see our colleagues day

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to day we've had to learn to operate in

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a different manner to collaborate in a

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virtual space versus a physical space .

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That's likely . The biggest

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shift that I've seen is people related

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in that physical contact where you'd

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see someone face to face about . In

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the mid 2000s 2005

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time frame the organization competed .

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Its stack store an issue program at the

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time now known under different

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terminology . Two see what would be the

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most efficient way to handle that .

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Whether it would be with a contractor

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or what we call the most efficient um

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organization or M . E . O . And

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happily we did win that competition .

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We as in the government with the M . E .

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O . Versus going to a contractor .

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People were very nervous particularly

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in our field sites because those are

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the sites that manage and ran the stock ,

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store and issue program . They did that

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day to day . So they were on pins and

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needles waiting for that competition to

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come to fruition and find out whether

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or not there would be a contractor in

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place or whether the government

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employees would be able to remain in

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place . They did remain in place .

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However , there was a lot of turmoil

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and chaos that did happen is that

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Emilio most efficient organization took

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over those duties and ran with them .

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The continuing government organization

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or C . G . A . Had all the other tasks

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and processes involved in our mission

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and that complicated things at times .

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Um It has reverted in um

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however it was very

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traumatic for many of our employees .

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I've been here . We were called D . R .

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Mo or D . ROMs and we moved to the

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D . L . A . Disposition services . It

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was difficult for people to make that

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swing with the name change . Um Some

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of the leaders did a great job . The

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leader I happened to work with did a

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great job at making it almost a game to

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make sure we made that vocabulary

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change as quickly as possible and that

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we used it all the time and that helped

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the customers in that area understand

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we're answering the phone differently

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and the signs are different on the

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building . But our mission to support

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the war fighter was still the same and

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that came through as long as we help

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foster that with our customers

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when it comes down to it . I think that

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supporting whatever process

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or group we need to support as the

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legacy . If it weren't for our

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agency , many planes would not fly ,

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Many soldiers would not have the

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supplies that they need and many

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humanitarian efforts would not have the

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equipment and supplies that they need ,

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including our law enforcement agencies .

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It makes you very proud to work for an

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agency that supports those kind of

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efforts when you know a vehicle

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that a team is using to rescue somebody

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off a roof during a flood came from

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your agency . There's quite a bit of

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pride in that there's one constant

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always with disposition services and

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it's the dedication of its people and

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how all of those people come together ,

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whether they're at headquarters or at

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the field , whether they're a local

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national working for our agency in

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Germany in Italy or in Japan , it

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doesn't matter . They are dedicated to

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our mission and we all come together in

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this wonderful melting pot that just is

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it's a constant , we overcome

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together and without its people ,

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disposition services would not be

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successful . Yeah