Travel

Sgt. Mildred Rodriguez: I actually just like to be in the Military, because I like to travel.

Sgt. Wayne Erickson: It’s like the Navy, you see more of the countryside. You see more of the land; you go places. The Army you usually go one place, you’ll stay there for a little bit, go to another place. It’s more stationary. Same thing with the Marine Corps. You’re living more stationary, but sometimes you get deployed on the ships, and you can go other places like with the Navy.

Senior Airman Jennifer Gayheart: I have loved everywhere I’ve got to go, because I love to travel. My favorite place to go would probably be South America.

MST2 Anicia Hokanson: In this job alone, I just got back from Puerto Rico a couple weeks ago; I was at an oil spill there. I’ve been to Washington D.C. cleaning up ricen. I’ve been to a bunch of different states from Maine down to Florida. I’ve gone to schools out in Idaho, Colorado.

Sgt. Mildred Rodriguez: Fort Huachuca, which is in Arizona, Fort Lennonwood, that’s where I did Basic Training, Fort Dix.

Staff Sgt. See-Yong Cheow: I’ve been to Germany.

Senior Airman Jennifer Gayheart: To the equator.

Lt. Dennis Wischmeier: Southern Europe.

Sgt. Mildred Rodriguez: To Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, the Persian Gulf.

Lt. Dennis Wischmeier: Japan, South Korea, Philippines.

Senior Airman Jennifer Gayheart: We went to the Aztec and Mayan ruins.

Staff Sgt. See-Yong Cheow: I’ve been to 14 out of 50 states within, like, three years.

Lt. Dennis Wischmeier: Seychelles, [Amon].

Staff Sgt. See-Yong Cheow: And it was really cool, you know, nobody else in my family could do that. And most of my friends have never left the town.

Ensign Brownie J. Kuk: Just meeting all the governments and working with them.

Lt. Dennis Wischmeier: Azores, Canada, all over the place.

Sgt. Mildred Rodriguez: It makes me appreciate life more.

Senior Airman Jennifer Gayheart: I basically took everything I learned in high school and put it in perspective, because you get to see everything that you learned and like all through high school, you kind of go through everything. And to see it, it’s really awesome.

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