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um , if you could give me your rank and

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your full name . Uh C . W . 03 Marine

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gunner , christian David Noel , What's

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your position ? I'm the battalion

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gutter . It's the weapons officer for

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125 . And what's your hometown ? My

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hometown is a farmington maine and

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uh bear with me . This is just fine . I

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know the answers to half the question .

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That's fine . Just to hear you say ,

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What is that the marines are doing out

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here this week , are doing their reset

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train or there are so an eye training

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going through the required training

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requirements before they go and operate

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today . We're zeroing . Um , we've got

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another company doing that . Roll over

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and counter I . E . D . Link training

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as well . What is this training

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beneficial ? Training reinforces the

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habits of thought habits of actions

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that the marines have been producing

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over the past four months of I locked

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training to prepare them to go outside

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the wire . It's for reservists . They

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activate uh , four months early . We

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went to Camp Pendleton , spent four

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months in Camp Pendleton ah going

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through Everything from individual to

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collective task . Uh for the reservists .

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If they don't get to train onto on a

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normal drill weekend or 80 period .

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And how long have you been in the

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Marine Corps ? I've been in the Marine

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Corps almost 21 years now . Active duty

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from various infantry battalions . And

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how many deployments do you have ? uh

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Yeah , total , I think Combat or total

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deployments ? Total deployments , I

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think this is 88 . My deployment , I

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believe . Uh how long have you

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been with ? 20 been with 1 25 for

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almost two years now . So a year and a

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half , two years coming up on um They

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gave me orders originally when they

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first found out they were gonna be

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activated and deployed . Uh Marine

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gunners with reserve battalion is a new

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program . It didn't used to happen in

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the past . They identified a

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requirement for a gunner to deploy with

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reserve battalions when they got

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activated . So when they identify a

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reserve battalion to be activated ,

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they try to rotate a gunner into help

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them training and prepare . I'm sorry .

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Um mm . All right . And uh

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approximately and I know you can't give

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exact numbers . Everything , but how

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many marines are in uh 25 roughly 700

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approximate plus or minus . Um If you

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could just give me like what exactly

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the duties of a battalion gunner are

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primary duty is to advise the battalion

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commander unemployment of his weapon

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systems . But that that means a lot .

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So it's really we can't employ them if

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we're not trained to them . If the

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individual riflemen , team leader ,

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squad leaders , tombstones don't

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understand how to use them . We can't

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employ them . So we're really here to

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make sure that we train , prepare and

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prep and are utilizing our weapons

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systems and performing the appropriate

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T . T . P . S . Ah to function in

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theater ? Sure . Let's do that for me .

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Is there anything else uh like to

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hadn't mentioned . No , I think that's

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it . It's all right .