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Marine Sergeant Major and I one of the

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take a couple minutes today to talk to

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you about the vaccination for covid .

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And the reason we're talking to you

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today is so far more than 90% of the

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marines are vaccinated . That's a

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really good progress . I don't know

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about each of you but I've seen a lot

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of information on the internet and what

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I've read , some of which is true and

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some of which are not true about the

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vaccine . And is it really safe and how

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did they come up with this vaccine ?

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And is it ethical ? I can tell you my

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view is I know the science behind it .

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I know how the vaccine was developed .

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I'm confident in it and that's the best

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way that we can protect not just

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ourselves but protect the rest of the

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marines around us and our families and

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the friends because we we have to we

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have to operate as a team . We have to

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be ready . We are the nation's forcing

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readiness . We have to be able to

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answer to bow when something bad

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happens around the world . And the

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president says I need , I need to know

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how long it's gonna take to get marines

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there . It's too late . Too late then

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to get vaccinated . We have to be ready

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all the time to respond . I think at

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this point marina , it's important for

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us to understand we we have

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requirements to be able to be

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deployable and all of us joined the

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marine corps to do the great things

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that core offers us to do . It's

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challenging for us to be able continue

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the mission if we're not ready to go

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whether that be training , whether that

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be Rifle range of the pft . In this

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case it happens to include the COVID-19

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vaccine . So when you continue to press

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forward to make sure we meet our

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requirements , we need you to get

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vaccinated . We need every single

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marine in the unit to be vaccinated .

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We don't we don't have extra marines

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were pretty small force and we have to

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make sure that everybody on the team is

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ready to go all the time . That's our

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job .