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The officer selection team here in

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Sacramento reached out to me this past

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summer asking if I was still interested

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in being a marine jag officer . My

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first question to Captain Crawson , the

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officer selection officer was I'm still

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interested certainly , but the Marine

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Corps couldn't possibly be interested

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in a 37 year old second lieutenant . He

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kind of laughed and said , hey , I just

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sent somebody older than you to O CS

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and come down , talk to me . And so I

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did and it became more and more

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attractive as a jag officer , I'm

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looking forward to , uh , to a new

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challenge . I've been in private

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practice for about 10 years . I

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specialized in health care ,

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representing physicians in medical

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malpractice defense cases . I worked

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only for physicians doing

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defense in private practice . Your

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clients control the sort of work you do

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and they limit you to their field of

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endeavor . Military gives you the

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opportunity to do defense work , to do

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prosecution work , to do other sorts of

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things , to advise on anything that a

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hidden organization , the size of the

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Marine Corps might need . What I'm

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looking forward to now is a new

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challenge filling the hole in my heart

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that , that has only gotten bigger

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without having served and helping

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marines and helping the Marine Corps

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and helping the country being an

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advocate for marines . You think of

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anyone I'd rather work for .