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on March 23rd , 2012 , sledgehammer

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soldiers packed up their tactical

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assembly area at the National Training

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Center . So we're out here at the race

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track at the National Training Center

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for Irwin California . And the third

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Heavy Brigade combat team has just

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finished up its 14 days in the box .

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Now we just have a few more days of

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wrapping things up and then we're all

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finished out here . The 14 day training

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in the box simulated a realistic

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deployment scenario . That was

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something very unique and talking that

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I've never experienced before . So

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commodity a lot of teamwork , very

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upbeat , very professional individuals

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definitely a lot of lessons learned and

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overall , great experience for training .

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It's very important , very important .

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We couldn't get the training back and

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forth . And it was realistic . Really

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reminded me of Afghanistan . I just got

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back to Afghanistan about a year ago .

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Really put me in mind of it . That's

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great . It was great training reporting

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from Fort Irwin California . I'm

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Specialist Derek Remy . Yeah .