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My new command was Marine Corps Base Quantico that's in northern Virginia.

What has been surprising to you about that transition and being in this place of the military?

I can only really speak to the Navy, but there's like overseas culture, there's West Coast culture, and there's East Coast culture.

What I know about the West Coast is that it's very laissez, fair, definitely more relaxed attitude around military structure.

Obviously, there's still the customs and courtesies that you must and will adhere to.

It's less political. Over here on the East Coast,

I'm very close to Washington, D.C. But because of that, we have a lot of heavy hitters in the

military over here, a lot of really high-ranking officers and military officials. I have run in

circles multiple times with people who are really high-ranking military at the Pentagon.

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