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basically , what have you been doing

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during a been conducting a lot of

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vehicle training uh in the mountain

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environments , Also teaching medical

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classes and patrolling some of the

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junior marines , How does this training

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kind of help you guys stay prepared if

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you're called upon to deploy ? What's a

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substantially different environment out

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here than it is a mobile , a lot of

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mountains . We were used to sea level

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and it's a lot closer to conditions

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overseas and our normal training areas .

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How do you think this training exercise

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has done a very good actually . We've

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been able to do a lot of patrolling

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classes and which is good for a lot of

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the junior marines who haven't gotten

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it since combat training in boot camp

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and things like that . The mountain

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driving was really different . A lot of

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different factors that you don't

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normally think of driving it home .

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You mentioned that some of the junior

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marines , they haven't really had the

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opportunity to practice . Yes ,

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patrolling and stuff .

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Well you could ever see is , you know ,

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even if you do a work up , it's still

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good to have that kind of basis that

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all marines should have . And also ,

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you know , anything learned here , It's

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better learning overseas when it's

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dangerous , you know , lives on the

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line . How long have you been here ?

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About 10 days ? Okay . Yeah . How do

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you think it's gone ? How do you think

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10 days have been very productive

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actually . Uh communications been real

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well , uh which is good for all of us ,

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especially some of the guys are weaker

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on calm . The mountain training were

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very well and then uh individual class

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have been able to teach that

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significant time to do that . And uh

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when I understand some of the guys on

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the field , we got some really good

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assets , mentioned that there's

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been an individual classes . Yes . Uh

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what exactly , uh which has been

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teaching anything from ropes and knots ,

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which is good for mountaineering , uh

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medical , combat , lifesaver type

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training , uh patrolling , uh immediate

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action drills , common with security ,

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different things like that , anything

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that we can teach . So basically just

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anything to improve marine . Absolutely

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there . And is this your first

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time out here in Bridgeport ? It's my

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second time in Bridgeport . I came here

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three years ago and then this time now

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training changed . It's been

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substantially better this time . Last

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time it was more geared to control it

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this time , it's been augmented

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different things , a wider variety of

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training . How do you think the

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improvements have been , you know , do

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you think , I think they're better now ,

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like the courses are better over here .

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Absolutely . Uh like I said , it's been

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a wider variety . So just focusing on

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one specific thing , marines maybe

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learn much more things and uh kind of

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just have an improvement all around

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sharpen your skills