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General , you had mentioned that the

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police forces grown to 400 people in

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120 of them are local marcher boys and

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I wonder , well , who , who are the

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rest who are , who are the others , if

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they're not local boys and what , what

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are the marines sort of doing to

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recruit more people into the Afghan

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forces who will be eventually responses ?

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Sure . Okay . Well , the , the , the

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other fellows are all , uh , people ,

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other guys from other , other areas of

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the province . And as we get more and

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more marches , uh , Marcia locals

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recruited will replace them . And those

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guys who go home to last cigar or are

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now zad or muscular wherever they

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happen to be from . What , what we

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wanted to do was we didn't want to put

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a brand new rookie police force ,

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complete rookie police force on the

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street . We needed , we wanted the

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level of experience out there to , uh ,

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help the new guys along who are coming

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out of the basic training if you will .

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And that's why you have this mixture of ,

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of local fellows and uh , the more

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experienced guys who , uh , because

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remember a year ago , there was no

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police force and margin six months ago ,

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there were no margins on the police

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force . They told us they wanted no

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part of it . So we don't want to , I

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don't want to set up a brand new all

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rookie police force . We want to have

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one with the cross cross decade of

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experience and we're getting that . Um ,

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what we're doing to recruit the police

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wide variety of things . Of course ,

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the afghans themselves have a pretty

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robust recruiting program . Uh they are

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uh they have some sophisticated ways of

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doing it And a lot of its traditional

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stuff . Uh of course we live in a we

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live in a province here where it's only

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10% of the men can read and write . So

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some of the stuff is hard to do . But

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we have uh we have banners that we put

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up , we have pictures that we hand out .

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We have , you know , large picture

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posters outside the police stations

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that all of which portray the police in

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a very good light as as uh as servants

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of the people and his uh protecting ,

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serving as heroic . They all heard the

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heroic guys and his heroic heroic

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individuals . We are , we ensure that

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they're paid on on a regular basis . So

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that uh that that that word gets out ,

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we have radio ads , they're very ,

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they're very big on the radio here . We

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have radio ads that we put out . We

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have a little uh we're gonna start a

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little uh soap opera on the radio that

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will kind of , you know , be the life

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of a of a policeman . And he and how he

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now he goes about saving people in his

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daily in his daily life . Um , and and

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we deal with the elders uh considerably

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a considerable amount and stress to the

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elders to uh to encourage their young

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men to join the service , to join the

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army to join the police force in order

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to protect and serve their local ,

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their local communities , all those

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kinds of things . Uh we try to make

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sure the police fully in uniform and

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driving trucks . Again , things kind of

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appeal to young men to make it , make a

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selection in in your lives . We also

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have a program called the Help the

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Afghan local police and that's kind of

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a police auxiliary and they can join

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that . They make less money than a

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policeman . They don't have the

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authority that a policeman has more

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more kind of the , you're the guys on

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the guys are direct traffic on the

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fourth of july . If you will , they're

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more kind of auxiliary police to help

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the local help help the actual police

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out . But it's kind of a half step and

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protect your neighborhood . Watch . Uh ,

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you're protecting your own neighborhood ,

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in your own , your own families . And

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uh we hope that , you know , if you ,

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if you like it , do you find attractive

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if you find it a good a good career .

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Um that will then progress and join the ,

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join the regular forces . So all those

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kinds of things we're trying to do to

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uh , to encourage the young men to join ,

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you know , as steady paycheck is a big

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thing over here , unemployment is very

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high and most of your , your young men

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are trying to save money to get married .

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You know , it costs you about $30,000

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if you want to get married over here

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because you have to pay a dowry and you

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know do all those kinds of things . Um

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and so the fact that if you join the

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police you get a regular paycheck and

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you're making some money uh is

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attractive because there's not ,

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there's not a lot of cash jobs

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necessarily floating around in Helmand

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province , Mostly farmers who who work

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other other for other means . Uh Thank

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you . I was just wondering how much the

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marines are actually working with the

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police are . Sure . Sure , absolutely .

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I'm sorry , I'm sorry , I missed that

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question very closely , very closely

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in two ways we have mentor teams and

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those are groups of marines who live

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with the with the police and with the

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army and who worked with him on a daily

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basis on their individual job skills

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and their professionalism who teach

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them everything from uh how to run a

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precinct house to you know what the

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duties of a squad leader are and how

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you , how you prepare your men for

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combat . All those kinds of things are

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done by mentorship teams and we have

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officers in and work with the afghan

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officers again to , to teach those uh

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those professional skills , you need to

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be a uh either a police officer or a uh

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or a military individual and then we ,

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every unit here , every , every afghan

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battalion and every police unit is

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partnered with a one of my units , one

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of my , one of my active duty units .

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And they operate with them . They

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patrol with them . Um , all of our

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patrols are partnered that we go out

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with afghans and marines together and

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they operate together . And again ,

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there's that mutual learning experience

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back and forth and they reinforced each

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other . And again , it gives us a

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chance to uh , ensure we respect their

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culture , but also to help to raise

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their professionalism on a daily basis .

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So it's a very , very tight

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relationship , very close relationship .

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And uh , it's working out very well .

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Oh , could I just ask , could you , can

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you , are you in a position to predict

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how many marines from Camp Pendleton

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will be in Helmand province at the end

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of this year . Um , let

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me , I could fish from Camp Pendleton ,

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that's the division headquarters comes

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home , I guess they will probably be

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35 , oh , I would say somewhere is in

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the 8000 , I'll take

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8000 . And that's really , I have to go

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back and look , that's that's really

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kind of a swag . I'm trying to think

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how many battalions we have there will

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be rotating over here , but I would

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think , uh , you know , 5 to 8000 . I

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know that's kind of a kind of a big

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swag , but I'd have to go back and look

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at the actual numerical designators of

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the units , Most of , most of the ,

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most of the , most of the headquarters

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units are turning over now . My you

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know , my I turn , we turn over the

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camp Lejeune marines . Uh First

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Division turns over with Second

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Division and so on , and so forth . So

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at the headquarters level there's

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there's gonna be a turnover there

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several 1000 people . Uh and then the

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battalion's rotate in and out , and so

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it has to do the squadrons on a regular

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basis . I'd have to go back and look to

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see it , but I would say generally

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probably around 8 , 9000 , probably

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about a steady state number .

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Is that pure or about the same as what

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is there ? You're right . Uh It's fewer ,

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it's fewer , it's fewer , it's about

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it's fewer , it's fewer nervous . I'm

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sorry , I'm sorry to waffle the answer .

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I can , like I say , the way that's the

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way we , the way we rotate forces here

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is the major headquarters that meth

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head quarters were not that I'm in the

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division , the air wing and logistics

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headquarters all stay here for one year .

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The individual units underneath us ,

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the battalions and squadrons rotate on

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a six-month basis . So there's kind of

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this constant turnover . Uh and I have

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to go back and look at my unit

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designators to be approved . The

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honestly to see how many we got now ,

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but I would think , you know , if you

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said they were going to be 8000

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campaign of marines here this summer .

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You'd probably be pretty close