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- [Narrator] These are just a couple of the HH-60

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Pave Hawk helicopters that belong to the 83rd Expeditionary

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Rescue Squadron of Bagram Air Base,

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and today these teams are doing some training.

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- What we're doing is we're basically taking

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what we feel might be a reasonable scenario,

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and we go out and we fly it.

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That's to make sure that we're sharp

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for when we actually have a mission drop.

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We can go out and do it without any hitches.

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- [Narrator] Hitches is something that this crew

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can't afford to let happen, so they do

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this training often.

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- Our skills are perishable.

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If we don't do it, we get rusty.

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Yes, it'll come back, kinda like ridin' a bike,

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but you can't afford that on a mission launch.

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- Everything that we do here, the reason why

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we train, the reason why we deploy, is so that

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if the situation ever happens where it's somebody's

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worst day, we can be there.

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- [Narrator] The terrain of Afghanistan presents

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additional factors for this team during the training,

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but it's nothing they can't handle.

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- In my opinion, there's no greater calling

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than if somebody's in need, you can go pick 'em up.

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Go get 'em, rescue them, combat search and rescue.

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- [Narrator] This training scenario was only one day,

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but being ready for that one day when it might

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not be a scenario is something this team thinks

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about on a daily basis.

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- That's the motto for combat search and rescue.

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These things we do that others may live.

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- [Narrator] Technical Sergeant Robert Smith,

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Bagram, Afghanistan.