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the soldiers out of fort wainwright

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Alaska are doing great things since

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they got to Afghanistan building ,

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combat outpost kenji capturing .

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Fighting season is just one of the

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things on their list of accomplishments .

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Strong point . Canada CAC was built at

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the end of a battalion level operation

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to clear the area around kenya . This

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has been a long held enemy stronghold

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in eastern Pans away and the battalion

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was able to clear enough space to

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establish a cop here . So that way we

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have a foothold in this area and we can

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start branching out into previously

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uncharted waters . These soldiers are

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used to roughing it . They've always

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had to make something out of nothing .

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We first got here , we took over for

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opportune that had been here for only a

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couple weeks . They had taken over for

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a unit that was here for close to a

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month . When we got here , there's only

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about 40% of the copy been graveled ,

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so there's about 18" of moon dust . So

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you couldn't walk anywhere without just

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getting getting completely and covered

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the moon dust . We had two

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tents set up , no running

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water , it was pretty , pretty rustic

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at this point . Combat outpost Kendrick

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isn't done to have longer days ahead of

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them . It's a tough job , but I don't

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think I understand these guys are all

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11 bravo infantrymen who go out on

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patrol in the morning and then come

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back here in the afternoon and take

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limited assets and resources and build

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a hard structure talk . So it's , it's

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a lot of hard work . A lot of long days

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Despite challenging odds , they are

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overcoming and getting the job done

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specialist Crystal Madrid's combat

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outpost Kendrick at Kandahar Province ,

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Afghanistan .