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- I don't think there's anything that compares

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to what we get to do here.

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They give us real projects that have succeeded or failed

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and we get to analyze those and figure out what went wrong,

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what went right, and then we get to impact our career field.

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So, I actually analyze cross-cultural competencies

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and cultural training and then I interview

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those little mineers that are spread across the world

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and I ask them how do our foreign partners

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affect our construction overseas.

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When we were told to think about

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what we wanted to research for our thesis,

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the three things they told us:

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something that is civil engineering related,

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air force related, and then something

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that you are motivated to do.

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I was deployed twice. Both times to Qatar

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and that's where I learned that our foreign partners

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really impact what we're trying to do.

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However, I didn't receive any cultural training.

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What could we give other bases that are stationed overseas

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specifically to help improve that foreign partnership.

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Then I got to partner up with Air Force Culture

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and Language Center to see how they teach cultural training.

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They ended up saying that they are

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gonna take this information that I found

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and see what they can make better.

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I chose GEM just primarily because

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we have networking capabilities

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with other Air Force Civil Engineers

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and we get effect the Air Force directly.

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My thesis research is gonna go and be briefed

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and spread out to the higher leadership

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to see what we can change

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and directly impact the CE community.