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From YouTube: Meet U.S. Army Veteran Dee
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Dee served in the U.S. Army Military Police for three years during the 80's. During her service, she was stationed at the Seneca Army Depot in New York, where a rare herd of white deer were living within the confines of the depot. In her hometown, Dee's family has built memorials for their local veterans as she is among many veterans in her family that goes back for generations.
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My
MOS
was
95
Bravo,
which
is
military
police
After
High
School
I
had
a
scholarship
and
was
going
to
school
at
our
local
community
college
and
about
two
weeks
into
my
program,
I
totaled
my
car
and
was
no
longer
able
to
continue
that
program,
and
it
was
at
a
turning
point
one
of
those
pivot
Points.
In
my
life,
where
I
had
to
make
a
decision,
I
knew
I
wanted
to
get
out
of
my
small
Hometown
in
the
midwest.
So
I
went
down
to
the
local
recruiter's
office.
A
I'd
had
other
friends
who
had
signed
up
after
graduation
and
gone
into
different
branches,
and
so
I
said
I
think
this
is
going
to
be
my
way
out
of
here
and
a
chance
to
start
growing
and
developing
as
a
person
into
see
where
this
takes
me.
My
service
started
in
January
that
was
actually
January
of
87.
When
my
service
started
so
I
must
have
enrolled
in
86
or
enlisted
in
86..
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So
then
I
was
sent
to
Fort
McClellan
Alabama.
Now
it's
closed
they've
closed
that
base,
but
it
was
a
great
base
down
there
and
they
That
Base
was
a
little
unique
in
that
they
did
training
for
all
military
police
there.
So
we
everybody
in
that
MOS
for
military
police
would
go
through
basic
training
there
and
then
stay
and
also
do
your
AIT,
your
Advanced
individual
training.
So
that's
oftentimes,
it's
separate
or
it
goes
to
a
different
base
for
that
training.
But
we
all
MPS
stayed
there
at
that
time.
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So
got
our
our
patch
for
military
police
was
cross
pistols,
and
so
it
did
a
lot
of
training
on
the
fire
range
getting
familiar
with
all
types
of
things
and
how
to
just
normal
police
training
traffic,
everything
from
traffic
to
control
security,
domestic
situations
how
to
handle
all
this
kind
of
stuff.
So
then,
when
I
got
my
orders
after
training
was
done,
I
was
sent
to
Seneca
Army
Depot,
which
is
upstate
New
York.
Basically,
there
were
two
MP
or
two
units
there,
and
that
was
EOD
explosives
and
MPS.
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It
was
a
very
secure
base,
nuclear
security.
So
that
is
what
I
did
for
three
years,
because
it
was
so
secure.
One
of
the
unique,
very
unique
things
about
that
base
is
that
they
had
so
white-tailed.
Deer
are
very
common
in
that
area
just
like
they
are
many
other
parts
of
the
East
and
Midwest,
but
the
white-tailed
deer
would
because
they'd
been
contained
in
that
fenced-in
area.
For
so
many
years
they
and
then
began
inbreeding
the
white-tailed
deer.
There
were
Pure
White
like
albinos,
but
they
were
not
albinos.
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They
didn't
have
pink
eyes,
they
had
brown
eyes,
and
so
we
would
have
hunters
and
Trophy
Hunters
coming
from
all
over
to
try
to
get
these.
These
beautiful
white
deer
as
a
female
MP
I
carried
a
38,
the
male
MPS.
At
that
time
carried
were
assigned
to
45.,
I
I
know
that's
changed
over
the
years
now,
but
that's
what
it
was
then.
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Also,
of
course
everybody
was
assigned
an
M16
and
then
on
our
so
every
day,
we'd
go
to
work
and
we
were
assigned
different
duties,
different
patrols
and
things
we
would
have
so
sometimes
we'd
be
carrying
an
M60
some
days,
a
shotgun.
So
we
did
a
lot
of
Patrol
and
a
lot
of
standing
on
airfields,
just
making
sure
everything
stayed
secure
and
was
kept
safe.
A
It
means
a
lot
to
me
to
be
a
veteran
and
I
have
the
utmost
respect
for
other
for
other
veterans.
Most
other
veterans
served
a
lot
longer
than
I
did
and
put,
and
many
more
have
served
in
difficult
combat
times.
Obviously,
I
was
fortunate.
I
never
had
to.
That
was
none
of
that
was
going
on
when
I
was
serving.
It
was
really
a
peacetime
missions.
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My
father
served
my
maternal
grandfather
and
paternal
grandfather
served
my
grandmother's,
my
maternal
grandmother,
her
all
of
the
men
in
her
family
served
my
father's
father
served.
It
was
just
so
much
and
even
one
of
my
grandmother's
sisters,
so
one
of
the
females
in
my
grandparents
generation
served
as
an
Air
Force
nurse
our
whole
family
through
all
of
them
they
have
purchased
in
our
small
little
Hometown.
They
they
put
together
some
memorials
for
all
for
all
the
vets
in
our
hometown
in
those
areas
and
it's,
it
means
a
lot
to
me.
I.