Friends

Lt. Duval Tyson: It was difficult being away from home. You miss all your family, your friends and stuff like that. But at the same time you’re still here with your family. The Military are family. You just have to now, you know, you become closer. You’re going to bond. You’re going to get closer to these people because you’re with them now everyday in close quarters. You learn their different traits. You learn their different personalities. It’s fun.

Senior Airman Joshua Mills: Like you would call Mom on a Sunday, you call everybody you work with to see what they’re doing, how they are.

Senior Airman Jennifer Gayheart: You work off each other. You’re very close in all your training and all your camaraderie is like you keep together.

Lt. Dennis Wischmeier: Especially when you put 24 guys on an aircraft through multiple long missions. There’s lots of practical jokes, lots of things that go on that make time fly.

Staff Sgt. William Alston: Some of these guys I’ve been with for three or four years, you know, and I would consider them just like family. That makes it a lot easier, knowing that you’re not the only one that’s in that situation, that you have the guy to your left and your right that’s there for you every step of the way.

Sgt. Ofman Gomez: It’s a brotherhood that I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life. There’s Marines that are no longer in the Marine Corps now that I still keep in contact with. They come, and it’s funny that they were so quick to get out but they miss it so much now.

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