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the two oh first BsB or brigade support

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battalion is responsible for all the

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logistic and medical support that's

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required for third brigade first idea

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to accomplish their mission here in

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Afghanistan ? Uh This includes

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everything from food , water , fuel ,

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maintenance repairs , medical support ,

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including behavioral health , physical

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therapy , all of those aspects fall in

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under logistical support , which is

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what our battalion is responsible for .

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The biggest thing , you know , is that

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we're here on Fob Salerno and it's a uh ,

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it's a , it has a lot of amenities here .

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We have dining facilities , we have ,

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you know , M W are , we have a gym , we

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have all the we have a PXE and all

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sorts of but the soldiers out there on

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the front line , the ones that are

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serving at the forward operating bases

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and such . They don't have all these

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amenities . So , anything that we can

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do to make their life better to make

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their experience over here in

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Afghanistan if you will that much

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better than then , and that's what we

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try to do and we focus on that every

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day is that , you know , there's folks

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out there to have it harder than we do .

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Everybody's in combat . But there's ,

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there's challenges out there that we

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don't have to experience here . So

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everything that we can do to make their

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job easier and to make it to where they

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don't have to worry about things is

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what we need to be doing and what we

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need to be focusing on ,

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right my job . The importance of it

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is all the way down to The live soldier

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on the battlefield even before 9-11

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Bravo who's walking on the patrol , all

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his supplies or move from my

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job itself and provide and that fuel if

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it's going to be an L . C . A . Drop or

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if it's going to be clipped out on the

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road , those vehicles and airplanes and

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helicopters have to have quality

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petroleum products which comes from my

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office . So I do the coordination to

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make sure the other commodities can

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move the product by land and air .

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Well , I've been deployed to Iraq and

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one of the main problems that we have

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here in Afghanistan is the weather

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during the winter times . Also the

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routes the roads uhh , it's

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most important that terrain around here ,

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it's totally different in Iraq or in

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other places that are being deployed .

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So it's a little bit more challenges

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transport . So we rely more and on air

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than actually ground movement because

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only on summertime , pretty much we can

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move everything that we want uh on the

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road . During the winter , most of the

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closed , most of the roads are closed

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and we can do nothing about it . So ,

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during the summertime , when we got to

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make sure that everything is ready for

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the winter , pretty much so it's very ,

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very challenging . But we work on and I

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think we improve a lot of stuff

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if you like to eat well , you know ,

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if it's supposed to war fires out there ,

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that's on the cops and it gives , you

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know , you know that that morale is the

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morale is the big thing . Class One

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food service . Everybody knows if they

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come out , they once they get off a

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mission , the first thing we're gonna

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do is go to the defect , go there ,

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dining facility bunch down and that's a

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morale booster right there .