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We're here for building community

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relations . At the end of the day ,

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we're here to protect our aircraft ,

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protect people on base . So trying to

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give them the confidence to say , hey ,

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like BS B friendly , but remember what

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we're here for , our defenders are

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trained to the exact same standards

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that active duty defenders working here

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are . And I figured if we could do the

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same job , they just have more people

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here . More people are always welcome .

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It's not that their squadron is

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undermanned , but they were expecting

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200,000 people on base for this

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Friendship Festival and they need all

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the help . They can get . The biggest

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differences I see in culture are that

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the uh the Japanese people are very

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cooper and they , they follow routine

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and they follow what they're supposed

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to do . Most of the things that we're

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performing , most of the tasks we're

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performing here , we're already trained

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to complete . So it's really not , it's

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a very easy learning curve . Uh for

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example , wanding metal detecting , we

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were already trained to do that . It's

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not a new task for us . Uh Searching

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bags were trained to do that . So the ,

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the team here at Yokota has

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approximately 30 or 40 employees that

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are all Japanese native Japanese and

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they all are posted out here

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specifically . So there's no language

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barrier issues . If , if somebody has a

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problem , they can't understand what's

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going on . Those Japanese contract

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guards are there to help out and they

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also have at least three interpreters .

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They are working out here right now too .

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A good reason to engage with security

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forces is that we have the to really be

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the glue on any given base . Uh We're ,

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we are everywhere so we're everywhere

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and yet , um when you locally commit

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and serve , you're able to really make

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an impact in your local community and

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uh just build those relationships and

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be able to serve and protect . I know

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our airmen will have success here at

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the Friendship Festival because we

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spend 365 days a year training for this

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kind of stuff that tradition guardsmen .

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And we also have multiple individuals

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who are law enforcement officers on the

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outside . We've got a lawyer within

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security forces squadron . So we bring

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to the front . Uh you know , not only

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the training that we get through just

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being members of security forces and

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being air force members , but we also

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bring our civilian expertise , which is

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something that the active duty

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counterparts don't necessarily have .

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And they can lean on us to have that

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experience that they may not . I feel

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like the training and everything I

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bring out here is the differences that

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we have back in Kansas than we have

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here . Probably gonna be the same . But

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it's gonna be more honed in with what

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we have since we have such a smaller

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squadron . That was more in tune with

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everybody . I love how close knit

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everybody is with everything because I

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feel more comfortable talking to my

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supervisors . If anything's going wrong ,

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I don't get scared . I'm like , oh , I

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can't talk to them . I'm really proud ,

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proud to see our airmen uh interacting

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with the Japanese populace . It , it's

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amazing to see the , the cross cultural

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uh understandings . They're constantly

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taking photos with our airmen . And it ,

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it's really amazing to see how they're

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interacting with everybody .