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Hello, my name is Kristen Strand. I am a cybersecurity associate consultant at Bar Advisory.

As I was growing up, I always wanted to be a teacher. I can remember from about second grade.

I was playing basketball in high school, and one of the coaches was actually a recruiter, and he knew I wanted to go to to college but wasn't going to be able to,

you know, pay for everything out of pocket. And so he sold me that line that the military would

pay for my schooling. And so there I was, signed up in the Army.

I definitely expected it to be hard and it was, but I kind of approached it like I approached many things that I found to be difficult.

Find someone that I know already did it, and I'm like, if they can do it, I can do it.

And that got me through basic training and then through a lot of the things that I wanted to accomplish as far as the Army was concerned.

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