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all good things must come to an end And

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for SAn Diego's maritime safety and

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security team known as missed . It

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means packing their sea bags and

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departing Guantanamo Bay cuba where

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they spent the last seven months but

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the mist will be missed . SaN Diego has

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done a fantastic job . They came in

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back in november . Since then , they've

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kind of set the standard for M . S . S .

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T . S . At Guantanamo over 4000 hours

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of mishap free operations out on the

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water . And those operations encompass

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the number of missions both in and out

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of the water . As the Coast Guard were

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responsible for the maritime security

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of the entire Joint Task Force . Joint

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operational area were also responsible

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for handling internal security during

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the commission's . And we also conduct

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communications watch between all the

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different components of the joint task

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force . In addition to the ongoing JTF

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Guantanamo Maritime Security Detachment

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mission , the SAn Diego missed also

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found time to participate in cutting

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edge training . one of the things that

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we do is water survival training and

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it's a , it's a brand new program .

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It's really robust and it requires

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everyone to get in the water with uh we

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have up to £60 of gear that will be

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wearing and we have to make sure that

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we are able to stay afloat and can

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conduct safe operations while we're

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operating on the water at the same time .

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Volunteering time to improve their

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surroundings at this historic naval

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base . The lighthouse is a really part

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of Coast Guard history and it had

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become run down over the years and made

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a significant effort to improve what

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the lighthouse looks like . We kind of

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took that as our own yeah

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responsibility as with the Coast Guard

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stripe on the side of the lighthouse

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that we need to own that and make that

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better . Sounds to me like san Diego is

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leaving some pretty big boots to fill

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em SST san Diego is the , is the

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premier m SST commander cooper . Um you

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know , we actually went to the academy

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together . He's a couple years and he's

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been a leadership mentor of mine for

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some time . But for the most part ,

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this is what we do for a living .

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Absolutely in our sweet spot . And

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we've been training exactly for this

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mission uh , with our reserve forces in

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our active duty component for the , for

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the last six months . And they're going

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to do exceptional , which is a sweet

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comfort to the Joint Task force

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commander . This is kind of a

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bittersweet ceremony um , to say

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goodbye to to san Diego and Commander

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cooper and his team . But it's sweet to

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say hello to new Orleans and uh

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lieutenant Commander musa and his team

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coming in that joint task Force

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Guantanamo . This is Sergeant first

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class robert Stephenson reporting