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- Well PALS stands for the

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PACOM Amphibious Leaders Symposium.

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And its primary goal is to bring together

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all of the nations, as many nations as possible

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who are interested in developing amphibious capabilities.

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Really what we want to do is we wanna show everything

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^that's involved from the early planning stages,

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^which are vitally important,

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^to the actual execution of fires and logistics

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in support of these amphibious operations.

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Well I thought the symposium was very successful

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and we really did discuss

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a lot of aspects of amphibious ops.

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But we had sort of a focus, and the focus was in sea basing.

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- When you have amphibious capability

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you can come from the sea into the littorals,

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^rapidly build up what you need

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^and be in a position to influence a potential crisis.

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^And then you can relocate it as you need to.

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That ability to stage and to deliver military

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and nonmilitary equipment ashore from the sea

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is a great crisis response option

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wherever in the world you need it.

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^- I think the symposium is very good chance to participants

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^understanding each other's capability

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and the concept of sea basing is you know

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every country has a little bit different capability

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and little bit different dock needs.

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So through this kind of a chance

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we can make a similar concept

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and we can understand each other.

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- What do you want him to take away?

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You want him to take away the idea

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that amphibious operations are complicated.

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They take a great deal of planning.

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To sustain them, to actually pull them off,

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takes a lot of rehearsal

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and it takes a lot of logistics planned well in advance.

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And the key I think I would hope that countries take away,

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who are here with us this week,

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is each country doesn't have to have the whole package.

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The key is everybody bring in a capability

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^that they can putting all of those together

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^into something that matters.

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^So hopefully they're not overwhelmed by,

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^there's no way I can afford to do all that.

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^Hopefully they'll take away from here,

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I've got something we can contribute,

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put those parts together

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and we can have a much more capable force.

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