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I have seen our National Guard all over

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the country , uh , and when I was

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opening and talking about you are all

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the best of our country and our

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communities know it , it's often the

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guard . I mean , uh , the love that the

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people of California have for the guard

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members that showed up after the forest

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fires . I mean , it has been , or the

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wildfires , it has been remarkable to

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me when you go to the mountains of

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North Carolina where I'm from . I mean

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you get out into these communities that

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don't the federal government doesn't

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other than mail delivery they don't

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have a lot of interaction with the

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federal government it's all of you and

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your colleagues who were there for them

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in their most trying moments and it

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lasts for a long time and so when you

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think of the lineage of I'm 3rd

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generation I hope my kids are the 4th

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generation to serve a lot of times , a

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lot of the new inputs into our system

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are from guard . Members throughout the

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communities modeling for them what the

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soldier life can look like and so very

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sincerely I want you to know we don't

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forget that we know how big of a lift

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it is to have essentially two jobs . We

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know that your families pay a

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disproportionate price and a lot of

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times our systems are set up much more

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for active duty than they are guard and

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so as I handed to Chief , we do talk

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about this all the time .