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- [Voiceover] National Guard soldiers

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from Alabama and Tennessee are building roads

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as well as partnerships with the Romanian Land Forces

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in Cincu, Romania during Resolute Castle 16.

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Alabama National Guard engineers are divided

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into two teams.

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The 186th Engineering Company is working

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with Romanian Land Forces counterparts

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to build Route Crimson, a 4.8 kilometer road

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capable of being traversed by M1A1 Abrams tanks

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through Cincu Training Range.

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At the same time, the 166th Engineering Company

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is completing vertical structures for a small-arms range

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where American and Romanian soldiers

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will train side-by-side.

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(weapons firing)

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^- [Voiceover] Put on safe.
- [Voiceover] Can't hold it.

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^- It builds partner capacity as well as provides

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^additional training areas and training resources

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for our military forces so it gives us that ability

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to show our partners that we're here with them

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to provide support.

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We are building the capacities,

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especially here in Romania on the ranges

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by us improving the roads, the routes, the crossings.

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The capacities that we're building enable

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our combined arms teams to be able to work

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with the Romanians as well as to provide a presence

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in the Baltic region, to show support,

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that we're not just leaving them on their own.

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That we are here to support them in any way

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that they need us to support.

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- [Voiceover] Resolute Castle creates an opportunity

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for American and Romanian solders

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to build important infrastructure while working together.

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^(equipment beeping)

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^- The exercise will enhance the infrastructure

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^of the Cincu Training Range so in the future

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there can be trains a lot of more troops

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and a different kind of operation.

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Defense, offense, depends what they need to train.

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And the second time, that the exercise will enhance

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the cooperability between our engineering forces.

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Doing that we can replace each other, to fit the situation.

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And your American guys will do our job

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and our military will do your job.

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- [Voiceover] It lets us show resolve.

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It lets us show the Romanians who are right here

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on the front line with the Soviet Union.

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And we have seen some things that have happened

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in the past, that we wanna make sure that they know

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that as a NATO partner and as an Alliance partner,

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that we're to work with them.

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That we're here to support them, so that we also know

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that they'll support us when the time comes.

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- [Voiceover] Reporting for the Alabama National Guard,

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I'm Army Sergeant William Frye.

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- The big rock that we were haulin' yesterday.