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I could , I could get this big hot .

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I've called 10 East Tennessee home . My

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parents moved here back in 2003 , 2004 .

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Uh So about the past 20 years , right ?

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Coming off active duty , me and my

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family settled here .

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Um I live here in the Eastern Syria ,

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just like him , is born and raised . Um

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This is my home . These are my people .

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When after the scope came out of just

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how bad it was and how hard these

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communities have been impacted , it was

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almost immediate , I need to go do

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something . These are , I mean , it

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missed Knoxville by an hour . I mean ,

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we were that close as could have been

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us . We have family , we have friends

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that live in the , that lost people ,

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lost homes . So the intrinsic

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motivation is there , right ? Like a

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lot of us have kids and family members

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and we're all motivated emotionally ,

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but from a strategic level coming in

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here with the resources and manpower we

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have , as you can see this project here

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when you first pulled up on the scene ,

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it's kind of like how do we accomplish

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anything here ? So we're breaking it

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down piece by piece . We're out here

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doing heavy equipment and doing

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whatever we can to help out . There's

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nothing but a positive outlook to build ,

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rebuild everything that we've lost as

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our wings motto was volunteer ready .

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That's just what we get out here .

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That's what we do . That's where our

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legacy came from , even at the army

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where we're at . There's thank you

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cards everywhere that the community has

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sent in from , you know , church

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families to , you know , school kids

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that are sending in just their thanks

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and appreciation for us . So always

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ready . You ready ? My

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birthday is the fourth of July . So

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that American flag is , it means the

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world to me . So being able to do this

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just not just for the local community

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but you know , to let the nation know

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that the Tennessee folks , North

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Carolina folks , union folks , we're

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all coming together to help out ,

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especially in something like this . And

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if God forbid something happens again ,

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we'll be ready again .