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^- My name is Sargent Zachery Bunting.

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^I'm the communications specialist for 19 Field Artillery.

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My hometown is Zanesville, Ohio.

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This is my first trip to Africa.

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My job in this exercise is the communications planner

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and IC specialists, I make sure all the communications

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work here for the different groups to communicate.

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One word I would use to describe

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the synchronization of communications in this exercise

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would be interoperability.

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The types of communication equipment we have here.

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We have a network set up so they can all work

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as they are in a command post environment

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with emails and everything they need.

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We've had some challenges to start with,

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but we've worked through our challenges

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along with our multinational partners

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and got everybody to come together

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and communicate, and it's going well.