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first of all , we wanted a song that

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spoke to our guardians that brought to

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life our motto , semper super , always

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above . And I got a text from a

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gentleman named Jamie teacher . Jamie

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was a Nashville singer songwriter and

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who decided he wanted to give back to

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his country and joined the Air Force

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and joined the Air Force band in

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Colorado Springs . And he supported us

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when we were Air Force Space Command .

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And he wrote this song . I put together

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things that from reading , you know ,

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white papers and speaking with General

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Raymond and Chief to Berman . And so it

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was quite a long work in progress uh ,

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for a while because I wanted to make

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sure that everything that was in the

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song would adequately represent all the

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capabilities that our Space force is

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involved with . And make sure I didn't

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mess up on the mission or the vision of

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what the Space force does when that

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song came in . It also needed to be

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arranged . It needed to have the big

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musical score like all the other , all

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the other songs of service songs have .

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And so we reached out to composers that

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they had worked with . And there was a

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gentleman named Sean nelson who was a

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member of the Coast Guard Band up in

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Connecticut . And he worked just a

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masterful arrangement uh , to uh , to

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this song . And it all comes together

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into something that I hope Guardians

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around the world would be proud of . I

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went for it and I did what I thought

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was was gonna be the most exciting uh ,

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kind of sounds . And it seemed to have

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worked when I heard that uh it was kind

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of the glue that brought all the three

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pieces words , music and arrangement

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together . And I thought we've got

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something that we can be proud of .