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I think I've had two really rewarding experiences.

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One was when I was young, I was 23 in the Navy

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and my ship was deployed outside of Syria

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when the chemical weapons,

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when Syria had chemical weapons against Syrian citizens.

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And that's a red line for the United States.

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And my ship happened to be the one

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that was deployed already there.

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We were the first ones that came out.

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And they call it Operation Numbul Warning,

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which was a pretty cool name,

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but we were in combat 20 hours a day.

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We had this team and that team was always on call.

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We were pretty much sleeping there

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and getting ready to shoot, right?

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And we were kind of in a, you could say a battle zone.

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We knew kind of what was going on in the arena.

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And that was a pretty rewarding experience

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because I was a strike-off on the ship

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and you're under a lot of pressure

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and you need to act and make decisions

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under a lot of pressure.

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And this is pressure for like 25 minutes.