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station this is air force staff sergeant

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todd cavallon uh good evening we have

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you loud and clear on the international

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all right

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well

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greetings from earth gentlemen or should

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i say uh from beautiful downtown baghdad

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um first of all i just want to say thank

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you for letting us be a part of this

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special event

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having two army officers on the

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international space station is uh just

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great and i'm here with a group of your

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fellow soldiers and i know they're

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anxious to have to ask you some

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questions so we'll just get right down

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to it

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all right questions sir

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captain john sorensen friends with texas

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sir what do you like the most about

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being an astronaut

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we i had a difficult time understanding

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the question but we recognize that

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you're assembled there in baghdad

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periodically fly over baghdad i've taken

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many uh pictures of it and there's not a

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day that goes by when we don't remember

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the the service and the sacrifice that

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so many of you are making uh over there

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in the service to our country um and in

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the protection of our freedoms that we

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master sergeant schroll from houston

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texas

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also work at the johnson space center in

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how did you fix your

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water processing assembly that you had

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clogged filters with

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we're going to work on the audio here a

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little bit i think that you can hear us

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just fine as you probably know i arrived

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on the space station the first part of

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october launched on september 30th from

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kazakhstan

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not too far from where you are and uh

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and colonel kramer here launched about a

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week and a half ago also from kazakhstan

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both of us came up on russian soyuz

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vehicles it takes two days to get here

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and we'll be overlapping here on the

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space station for

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about two and a half to three months uh

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colonel creamer will remain on board

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after my russian uh crewmate max sarif

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and i returned to earth in the middle of

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an interesting little tidbit is uh

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two or three commander ships down the

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line we'll be joined by colonel doug

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wheelock and 1982 graduate of west point

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which i think is the first time

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that we'll actually have an active duty

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uh army commander on board and taking

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well sir lieutenant

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32nd infantry brigade combat team

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wisconsin national guard uh just looking

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to see if either of you have experienced

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extra vehicular activity and if we can

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get some first-hand accounts of what

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that's like

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i'm really uh sorry unfortunately the

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so i know that houston is working on it

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we uh let me tell you a little bit about

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the crew right now we're a crew of five

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when with the arrival of colonel creamer

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and his soyuz crewmates we became a crew

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of five we were a crew of two for a few

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station crew grew to a crew of six back

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last summer in june

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by maintaining two soyuz here on board

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each of them have three seats that

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serves as our lifeboat an escape vehicle

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in case we have to to leave

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and we're getting close to the the final

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assembly of the space station we will

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complete its assembly in 2010

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transition to full utilization

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in this international partnership made

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european space agency and the canadian

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all right sir can you tell us a little

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uh got that question how have the

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holidays been the holidays been great

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were a nice relaxing break to the pace

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they brought or they they arrived

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bearing gifts

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it was great to see them of course we

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being away from family and friends at

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this time of year is is unique for us of

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understand that you are also away from

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your family and friends and our bonding

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with the troops that you you are living

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with much like what we do here this is

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our our home away from home

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um you guys of course are elbow elbow

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with your compadres there and i think

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that is just absolutely wonderful

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because that enables us to do what we

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thank you sir uh we'll go back to the

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massachusetts question i think the

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audio's working now

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i also work with the johnson space

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center in houston

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how did you fix the cloud filter for the

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let's see the water processing assembly

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how did we fix i think you're talking

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about the urine processing assembly

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right if we fix that we have not fixed

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storing it as far away from us as we can

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and now we're having to take the water

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that we have stored on board and reserve

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and process that through the water

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processing facility to drink on board

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it's a it's an actually very interesting

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aspect of life here not a whole lot

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the field experience that you have there

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where you have to improvise a little bit

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and make do with what you have and also

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get by and operate and live

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less than what you otherwise would

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only have five people on board right now

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and one of the storage places for the

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extra urine is in that six sleep station

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we just won't tell the next inhabitant

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and by the way thank you for your

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service and two counts uh

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both in the military as well as in the

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space program

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i am tim dalvin from the 32nd brigade of

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the wisconsin national guard wisconsin

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the home of deke slayton jim lovell and

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mark lee among others i'm i'm wondering

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if the earth will ever be the same to

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you after you after you've seen it from

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that uh incredible vantage point

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from this incredible vantage point as

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you describe it we'll never see the

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earth in the same way you know when

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limited in some places we see

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that we can observe at any given time

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small farm and i didn't

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that especially in urban environments

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airplane ride and your whole world

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spacecraft and you go to orbit of course

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looking out the window to orbit the

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earth every 90 minutes to spend weeks

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and months here and see the earth go

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through its seasons

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it's a it's an incredible place it's

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it's just a fascinating experience to be

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able to see god's creation from this

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i i can't say it any better than what

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the treats is to be able to build up

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enough time ahead of the schedule that

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simply go and look out the window and

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what it is like for pt for you guys

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cheating so how do you how do you

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that weigh us down allow us to make

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contact and not float away off of the

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treadmill and we also have a bicycle so

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each day we we're we're supposed to be

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two hours or more of exercise and and

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the exercise is not only for our own

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general fitness but it's also a counter

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measure to to the atrophy that we suffer

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when we're up here as well as the bone

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loss that we suffer up here specialist

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company at fort bragg uh my question is

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do you guys ever get the chance to call

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home to your families that's a great

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question and i know it's a subject

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that's near to dear to your all's hearts

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as well because you want to stay in

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contact with the family and obviously in

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the situation that you're in you're

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limited to be able to do that we

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actually have pretty good resources on

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board to do that we have the equivalent

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go obviously goes to the communication

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system we here have here on the space

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station but we can call

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anywhere on earth and we typically call

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our family every day once a week or so

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we usually on the weekend on a sunday we

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have a video teleconference with our

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a day so we're able to stay in contact

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that way and then people send us

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electronic uh

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greetings through video and other means

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as well that we get periodically so

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overall we're able to stay in pretty

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close contact with our friends and

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family

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lieutenant mersinger from houston texas

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i notice both of y'all are wearing two

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wrist watches could you please explain

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what the second device is for

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that's a great question we um you know

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the old saying is a man with two watches

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never knows what what time it really is

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uh we actually have a real live watch

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that we use that's synchronized to the

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gmt time and then we're living on on

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greenwich mean time but the other black

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device that we have is an activity watch

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it's a

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little mini accelerometer and some of

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the researchers are are taking a look at

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our activity during the day and how

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active we are versus

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how restful our sleep is and they watch

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the the light and activity cycles to see

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if we're getting a proper amount of rest

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if we get disturbed at night

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um so they're just they're tracking our

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behavior basically

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uh lieutenant caylich with uh 32nd

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infantry brigade combat team wisconsin

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army national guard i was just asking if

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either of you two have experienced eva

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and if we could get some first-hand

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like uh yeah i've been outside three

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times uh not during this day on the

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space station but the last time i was up

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here three and a half years ago i went

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out once in a russian space suit and

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once in the u.s space suit uh and then

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back in 2000 i went out once on a

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shuttle flight in the u.s space suit

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it's an incredible experience it's one

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thing uh to be able to look out the

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window here and see the earth and

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whatnot it's another thing to actually

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go outside and you yourself in this in

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in a spacesuit are a spacecraft in

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itself it's complete with life support

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systems power systems

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comp systems etc to keep you alive

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and functional outside the work outside

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is incredibly challenging

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not unlike a lot of what you do

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it's a lot of heavy lifting you're

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outside for quite a while usually six

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and a half hours or more you're in the

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suit about eight and a half or nine

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hours

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so it's a long day but it's a it's a

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highlight of the of the entire

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experience

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hey there sergeant ron wedeberg 318

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public affairs office operations center

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um i noticed you guys kind of look like

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you're upside down how does your bodies

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react to that uh like your

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cardiovascular like do you guys does the

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blood rise to your feet or does it rise

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to your head

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that's that's a great question the truth

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is that there really is no up and down

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up here because everything's weightless

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when we first launch

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on the russian spacecraft and you go

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weightless there's tends to be a shift

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of fluids from the lower legs up into

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the chest

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and and head area and you tend to see

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people with moon faces and they get

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puffy and all the fluid tends to go in

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that direction but but now once we've

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adjusted

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um up and down don't matter to us and it

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really doesn't have the blood blood flow

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hey how are you doing i'm captain

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sherman first id military transition

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team

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we communicate a lot with our military

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partners on the iraqi side pretty much

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every day

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what is it like working with the russian

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partners on the space station every day

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what are the challenges any funny things

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happen

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well the actually that's one of the most

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rewarding aspects of the entire

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experience as well both colonel creamer

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and i have worked with the russians now

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for

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uh over 10 years

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or so we've spent a lot of time in

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russia the biggest challenge of course

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is learning the language each other's

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language

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so that you can as you know very well

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develop a relationship of trust

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but

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we've become

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close friends with many of our russian

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colleagues

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particularly our crewmates we do trust

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each other

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the

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you've

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got some level of uh

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ability at the language it just opens uh

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the doors wide open

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for those relationships so we've had a

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great experience working with the

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russians overall both on an individual

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level as well as a corporate level

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the other thing i'd like to emphasize is

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that

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our russian compadres here on station i

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can easily count among my best friends

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the humor is really good in both

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languages the care the self-care and the

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caring for your body is also extremely

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good um i and i have absolutely total

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faith in everything we're doing the the

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interesting background is you know i got

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commissioned in 82 and at that time we

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were still in the cold war pre-wall

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coming down and whoever thought that we

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would actually be flying on a on a

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russian vehicle together as you know

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equal partners

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with their extreme experience in space

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and and to some degree their extreme

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experience on heavy lifting to space

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stations in space has been wonderful

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working with these guys they're really

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really super folks

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major mcrae florence south carolina two

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of the military police command fort

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mcmurray and the 318th public affairs

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operations center

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my question is how did your many years

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of experience including military

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experience prepared you for what you're

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currently experiencing in space

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that's a great question i think that

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our military experience prepared us for

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what we're doing in space in the same

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way that your military experience is

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preparing you to meet the challenges

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that you have every day and the

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challenges that you're going to have in

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the future

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i think all of the

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the things that you

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appropriate from being in the military

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are

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what we're doing too the the uh

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teamwork the dedication to mission

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the whole concept of duty

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of trustworthiness

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of honor of serving and service all of

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those things are instilled in

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those that

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spend time in the military and all of

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those things have a direct application

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to other aspects of life and they

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certainly have a direct application to

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what we're doing here

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perseverance and

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one other aspect i think is pretty key

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is that as you go through your your

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learning curve for the military one of

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the things that you become acutely aware

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of is

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subjugating the your personal self for

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the greater

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contribution to the team and i think

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that's one of the biggest things we

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happen to be on the pointy end of the

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bayonet by flying on space station but

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there's a huge team behind us

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and for us to be here is both an honor

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but it's also a duty to serve the people

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who are really operating the space

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station which are the ground folks and

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the researchers that subjugation is

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something that is is really key with

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my military background and i would say

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most people's

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all right gentlemen i believe our time

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has expired so um on behalf of myself

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the american forces network here in iraq

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we just want to say

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thank you very much it was an honor to

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have you on board the international

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space station today we thank you for

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your service and again for the

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sacrifices that you're making in the

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protection of our freedoms uh that we're

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able to enjoy

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and you are in our thoughts we

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appreciate what you were doing for for

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our families our country

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by all means stay safe and

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and and can't wait for you guys to get

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back to your families too

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godspeed all

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godspeed