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This is a journey for the soldiers .

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It's a journey for you guys as well as

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family members . This event , I see a

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lot of new first-time deployers . This

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will echo throughout your life .

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Looking at the young PFC all the way to

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the sergeant first class or the master

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sergeant , how do you get through a

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deployment ? Each day we wake up ,

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we're in it to win it . You got to be

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good teammates . Whatever my function

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is and whatever it is to take care of

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the soldiers to the left and to the

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right , to take care of folks . I want

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to see each and every one of you guys

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go in and I want to see each and every

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one of you guys come back . The day to

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day operations . Executing the mission .

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Making sure the soldiers are safe . And

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our other services , not just the army

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that's in that theater , are counting

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on the engineers to do great work . And

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uh , I do wish you Godspeed as well ,

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and I know that uh you're going to do

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great work . I can't think of a better

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unit that can do it .