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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 .