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Japan Ground Self Defense Force or GsDF

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held its cal fax training exercise at

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the end of the training center . Over

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90 soldiers from Fort Lewis supported

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the event with everything from

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operating range control to refueling

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aircraft . Second lieutenant john kim

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says the troops love spending time with

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the japanese members . It's always a

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pleasure to support somebody , you know ,

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our friends for them to use Ireland and

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uh for them to use our resources ,

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they're more than welcome to . You know ,

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we're here to , we're here as a global

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team to fight this war on terrorism .

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So , you know , nick casa su casa ,

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Gsdf major Tochiazuma aura says they

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come to Yakima because it's such a

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large training area . We're gonna have

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a big enough uh

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practicing area . So we came

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here to practice combined arms exercise .

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Uh , we are here to shoot the

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weapon's maximum effective range . The

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cultural exchange between these

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soldiers can be a priceless experience .

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It's very interesting um , learning a

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lot about their culture , um , learning

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a lot about how they do things in their ,

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in their military and I can suggest uh ,

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it's very kind . So uh , my english is

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not so well that's their cell and

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asked me again and again until I am ,

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I am just understand for the 28 public

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affairs attachment . I'm specialist

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chad highland Yakima training center

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Washington