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So, you are in Las Vegas for New Year's
you are working, what is happening here?

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It is a training exercise.
We are assisting Las Vegas Metro Police

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Department and being vigilant in the airport.
So where were you at- where are some of

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your other soldiers that or I mean
- who are under the program?\

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My partner is in the Air Force National
Guard and myself were in terminal 3.

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We have all National Guard members that
are stationed throughout the terminals Las

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Vegas Airport.

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I see,what is the benefit to you and to
your unit and training in a real world

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environment - ?

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It is definitely good.
The Military Police function it is

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a garrison mission and it is definitely
a good exercise, good practice, good training.

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And why?

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It allows us to utilize the training that
we have done back at the armory and it

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is a real world experience that there
and after the people work with Las Vegas Metro

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and see some of the techniques that they
use and it is also cool working with the

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Security Forces, Air Force Security Forces

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they have some of the same SOP's and it
is interesting and good to work off each other.

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How many times have you done this before?

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This is my first year doing this mission,
but for my understanding we have been

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doing this for 11 years.

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And what's it been like?
Has it been challenging?

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Has it been enjoyable? What are some
of your emotions in that area?

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Overall it has been good getting
to talk to some of the people.

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The citizens are happy to see us out and
it makes them feel safer to see a presence here.

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And what are some other actions
you got from here?

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A lot of thank you's.

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Some people are curious to know what we
are doing, you know and you know we

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explain to them what our mission is and
you know that there is no threats or

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anything like that, it is - we
are just here to help out.

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So have you been to Las Vegas before?
This is my first time in Vegas.

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So what do you think of Las Vegas? Are
you seeing it from a little different perspective?

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Yeah, it is nice.
It is bigger than I thought it was,

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but the elevation is lower.
Some of us are taking a PT test while we

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are down here so I hope that
will help out with the run.

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Excellent.

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How do you feel your unit will
benefit from this mission?

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Well this is some of us deployed
to Afghanistan and there is a rear detachment.

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This is our first mission doing something
together so there is - this brought us

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together that way and we are able
to finally do a mission together.

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Awesome, anything else you would like
to add, or you think is important? No.