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>> My name is Trevor Cook.

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I went to Rollins as an undergraduate.

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I graduated in 2007 with a
degree in Political Science.

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Right out there after I joined the US Army and
served as an Infantry Officer in the US Army

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for 4 and half years and now I'm
back here at Rollins getting my MBA.

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There's really 2 types of days when you're in
the - like at least in the military right now,

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there's what we call a Garrison Day

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and then there's what we call
a Field Day or Deployment Day.

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Garrison is your normal day to day operation,
that's where you spent majority of your career

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and Garrison Day is you start
it at 4: 30 in the morning.

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I'd wake up.

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I was generally on post at 5:30 am.

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From about 5:45 to 6:15 in the morning,
you do kind of like your daily in brief,

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where they pass out any information that
they need you to pass on or give you the task

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that they need you to accomplish for that day.

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At 6:30 started physical training, at 9:30
you're at your desk or wherever you needed to be

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for the day's operations and then you
basically worked a 9:30 to usually about 6-6:

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30 working day and then you went home
and then you repeat the next day.

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General task in Garrison for an officer, you're
probably going to be running around doing a lot

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of meetings, you're going to be
sitting in on a lot of PowerPoints,

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you're going to be developing a lot of
PowerPoint slides, writing drafting memorandums

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like for example, if you need if you're unit is
doing rifle training, well you're going to have

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to draft memorandums explaining how
much ammunition you intend to shoot,

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how many soldiers you intend to qualify, you
know, justify why you want x number of rounds

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versus this and that and of course then you
need to take set memorandums and get them

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to the people that, you know, sign off on them.

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So, there's a lot of I think most
people would be surprised on how much,

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how similar the Garrison life
of the military is to life

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at just your average Fortune 500 Company,
I mean, a lot of the same sort of,

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I don't want to call it,
bureaucracy, but a lot of the same kind

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of paper shuffle exist in the military.

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Field or in deployment things
change a little bit.

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Field training is-- when you're in Garrison
instead you basically move out of Garrison into,

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as you might imagine, the field
in which case you usually live

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in tents or you sleep in your vehicles.

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Sometimes it'll have cots and like barracks,
you know, at the training area but very rarely

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and you generally pretend like you're not
in Garrison and those are usually the days

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when you're out shooting, you're out conducting
battle drills which are just rehearsals

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of tactics and maneuvers that you
would use in a combat situation.

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And that's sort of the closer to what most
people picture the military being like,

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you know, running around in the
woods with rifles playing soldier,

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that's generally what the field is more like.

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And then down range was in
Afghanistan was kind of a mix of the 2.

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Because I would quite often spend my
mornings out with my guys either on patrol

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or overseeing training for the Afghan Armies
who were sort of very much out in the field,

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feeling kind of sort of cut off
from the fob or the base, I'm sorry.

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And then in the afternoons I'd usually
come in for lunch and then spend the rest

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of my afternoons doing paperwork and attending
briefings and meetings and getting sort

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of caught up on what's going on in Afghanistan
so that I could then go and let my guys know,

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hey, you know, this unit was hit by
an IED not too long ago on this road.

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So, let's make sure when we're
driving near there tomorrow

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that we pay attention, like that kind of stuff.