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Hello

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and welcome to around the Air Force .

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The Air Force plays a very active

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combat role in Afghanistan on Wednesday

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alone . A 10 Thunderbolt two's dropped

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£500 bombs near Kabul F fifteens

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monitored an insurgent group in

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Asadabad and a B one B Lancer placed

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guided munitions on enemy troops in

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Darfur sheer while the Air Force

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consistently demonstrates its legality

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in Southwest Asia Airman also show a

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great deal of humanity . The provincial

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reconstruction team in Panjshir Valley

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handles a variety of humanitarian

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projects ranging from simple

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veterinarian services to essential

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construction . Senior man Isaac Watson

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shows us what they've been up to lately .

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One of the questions I have is that why

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as you're constructing the ring ring

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beam , how do you make sure that it's

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all the same elevation Teresa Morales

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is conducting a quality control

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inspection at a construction site in

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the Panjshir Valley . A civil engineer

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for the Panjshir PRT , she visits

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construction sites to evaluate the

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progress of the local workers .

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Whole

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PRT mission is to legitimize the

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government to show the people that the

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government is working for them . And

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our job isn't so much to build this

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school as it is to Facilitate the

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government doing that Afghans place a

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very high importance on education . So

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schools are a common construction

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project , you wouldn't believe how many

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Children there are around here . Um

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other schools I've seen has just been

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overflowing . Um you see classrooms

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with 60 or 70 little kids and uh not

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nearly enough space or supplies or

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desks or anything . Uh they badly need

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more schools . The paint your PRT is

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making sure there will be plenty of

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schools in this region . This school

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construction project is just one of

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five . The team is currently working on

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a senior German Isaac Watson in the

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Panjshir Valley of Afghanistan . For

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more of today's top stories log onto

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Air Force link provincial

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reconstruction teams are working hard

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to provide simple amenities like clean

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drinking water in Afghanistan , but

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every handle the water supply on long

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established military installations

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overseas as well . Senior military More

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shows us an example of the pains taken

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to make water pristine . This is Ozon's

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water treatment facility in these pipes .

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The water that's the lifeblood of Osan

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gets treated well over a million

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gallons a day . And this is where it

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begins , its the main pipe that brings

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in water from the outside . From here ,

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it's sent through a series of chemical

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purification that includes the addition

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of their own brand of chlorine by

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extracting it from ordinary rock salt .

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It's then processed through a state of

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the art membrane filter , which is like

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an incredibly advanced strainer

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separating possible contaminants from

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the drinkable water . But the

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operations don't end there ,

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technicians take water directly from

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the supply and do analysis monthly ,

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daily and hourly , looking for things

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like chemical balance and contamination

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even outside the treatment facility ,

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bio environmental technicians like Tech

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Sergeant Benito Hibbert do testing

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throughout the base to ensure the water

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is safe to drink once it reaches the

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tap in your home , the water is

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completely safe . I drink it myself .

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Reason being is because we perform so

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many tests weekly , monthly and

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quarterly underwater . And because we

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know the filtration process that goes

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through and the test we perform

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ourselves for bacteriological analysis

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ph chlorine . So in general the water

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exceeds all U . N . Standards and meets

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all U . S . Standards which are

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generally sometimes more stringent than

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basically tends around the world for

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water the water coming onto the base

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facility is already safe for drinking

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but it's still filtered , treated and

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rigorously tested again and again . Now

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it might be hard to believe . But even

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after the extensive filtration process

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the water has already been through .

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They'll go to different places around

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base and collect water samples and

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those water samples go in this

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incubator which is kind of like a

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refrigerator except it keeps things

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warm and warm environments are optimal

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for the growth of bacteria . So

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basically if there's even the slightest

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bit of bacteria and this water they're

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gonna be able to find it . So the next

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time you take a drink from the tap you

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can rest assured it's perfectly safe .

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Chairman larry more Osan air base Korea

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for around the Air Force staff Sergeant

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chris

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tucker