WEBVTT 00:02.839 --> 00:06.420 I could succeed in any uh area , but 00:06.429 --> 00:09.510 I was determined to be in the military 00:09.520 --> 00:13.119 one way or another . If I die and I'm 00:13.130 --> 00:16.950 born a million times again , I will be 00:17.049 --> 00:20.200 right . That's what I 00:20.260 --> 00:23.840 envisioned ever since I was a kid . And 00:24.950 --> 00:26.969 thank you . He came soon 00:29.270 --> 00:31.326 before I joined the Marine Corps . I 00:31.326 --> 00:35.279 graduated uh high school in El Salvador . 00:35.380 --> 00:39.319 There was a civil war there um 00:39.500 --> 00:43.080 from 1980 to 1992 I 00:43.090 --> 00:46.380 left um early 00:46.389 --> 00:50.380 1990 fled from the , from the civil 00:50.389 --> 00:53.110 war in search of a better and brighter 00:53.119 --> 00:56.680 future . And here I am , if you wanna 00:56.689 --> 00:59.830 be a rock , you wanna be become a 00:59.840 --> 01:02.062 diamond , right ? So when I became a um 01:02.062 --> 01:05.269 a marine , I knew I wanted to be a ju 01:06.800 --> 01:10.669 um because if we 01:10.680 --> 01:13.569 look at the nation , not everybody can 01:13.580 --> 01:17.430 be a believe and then not every marine 01:17.440 --> 01:18.607 can be a return to . 01:21.440 --> 01:24.709 So I came to Okinawa and , and I served 01:24.720 --> 01:26.942 with the terminal division headquarters 01:26.942 --> 01:30.919 battalion as um uh motor transport . Uh 01:30.930 --> 01:31.720 chief 01:36.190 --> 01:39.680 being in Japan station in Japan is one 01:39.690 --> 01:41.746 of the best duty station that I have 01:41.746 --> 01:44.449 been . Not only you get to see 01:45.180 --> 01:47.559 marines from the east coast and marines 01:47.569 --> 01:49.625 from the west coast . And they merge 01:49.625 --> 01:53.010 here to you without being in the east 01:53.019 --> 01:55.830 coast or the west coast . You observe 01:55.839 --> 01:58.400 marines , their culture , right ? And 01:58.410 --> 02:00.830 they merge here in Okinawa . 02:04.580 --> 02:07.650 I like it because it's green . I mean , 02:07.660 --> 02:10.399 the ocean is always the , the ocean is 02:10.410 --> 02:13.880 friendly , put it that way now , um 02:14.369 --> 02:16.839 too many waves . So you can find a spot 02:16.850 --> 02:19.199 where you can actually swim . You can 02:19.210 --> 02:21.779 do a lot in the water . If you opt to 02:21.789 --> 02:23.910 those , those things , you can go 02:23.919 --> 02:26.919 places , you can go Taiwan , Korea or 02:26.929 --> 02:30.839 whatever inside the 96 without wasting 02:30.850 --> 02:33.910 your lead . Come to Okinawa 02:34.750 --> 02:36.806 and you can come to the first mall . 02:36.806 --> 02:39.339 It's great . It's one of the best units 02:39.589 --> 02:40.259 I have been with .