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I'm Captain Jonathan Davis with the

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170th Military Police Battalion . I am

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the commander for Team Bulldog ,

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roughly 82 soldiers from Georgia

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National Guard that stayed behind with

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the Joint Task Force DC . When Florida

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National Guard came in , we were moved

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to the Anacostia Metro Station , part

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of AO South . We're getting used to the

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new area of working with our transit

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police officers and our Metro PD . The

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relationship we've . Built since we've

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been here has gotten stronger every day .

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Previous to our arrival here at

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Anacostia Metro , this wasn't staffed

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by National Guard members of the task

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force , so us coming in , we

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established a new presence here , uh ,

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which has made a huge difference with

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Lamata PD and Metro PD . I'm the direct

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supervisor for 82 people here , so I

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get to impact a lot more lives day to

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day . So most of the National Guard

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that , uh , that have been like up here .

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Activated up here . Our main purpose

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was manning most metro stations . This

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one is very , very new , but in the

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past we've been at DC Army Metro , Navy

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Yard Metro , things like that . Of

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course orders like this , they come to

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an end . But in my case , however , I'm

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part of the extension crew from Georgia

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that , you know , decide to stay while

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the rest that chose not to extend ,

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they went back home . I thought it

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wasn't going to make a difference . So

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I thought my presence wasn't gonna be a

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difference , but I started to feel some

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sort of um feeling where I actually am

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making a difference and that's normally

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based on the the general public when

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they come up to me and approach me and

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say hey thank you for being here , you

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know those kind of words and words like

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that carries a lot of weight it gives

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like people like myself a sense of

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purpose when we receive that kind of

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words .