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Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments; my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.

I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was here when there was no public support, not just for the effort in Vietnam, for the mission in Vietnam, but for our men and women in uniform.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.