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- [Narrator] Over 700 people celebrated

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the United States Marine Corps' 241st birthday

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by participating in the Double Dog Dare obstacle course

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November 10, 2016 at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.

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Other service members and civilians

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helped the marines execute the 5 kilometer

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multi-obstacle event.

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US Army Lieutenant Colonel Diane Klein,

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commander of the 54th Signal Battalion,

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said events like this boost morale

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and strengthen relationships between military services.

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- It was muddy, sandy, a little dirty,

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but it was a lot of fun.

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There's climbing, there's crawling, there's jumping,

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there were a lot of burpees.

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My unit was not only participating in the event

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but we also had about 20-25 folks who were volunteering.

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Moved about 1800 pounds of ice out of Conexes

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into an obstacle.

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We had folks that were helping people over the obstacle

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and just generally managing it.

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I believe in the joint concept in helping

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our brothers and sisters in arms

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and who doesn't like to get a little muddy

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and dirty every one in a while?

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(yelling)

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- [Narrator] Major Tanisha Davis with Marine Corps

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Forces Central Command coordinated the event.

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She said the birthday celebration was a success

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thanks to the overwhelming support the marines received.

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- Marine Corps birthday's a big deal for us

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so we go big or we don't show up at all,

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I like to tell people.

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And I think we did a pretty good job today with that.

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We had some of the Kuwait Marine Battalion here

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and we liaison with them quite a bit

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so we had some marines also escort them through the course.

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We depend on the Army for everything

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from three, six, eight engineers helping build

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or refurbish most of the obstacles that were out there

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to them filling up the water pits as well.

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This is a joint environment and everything we do

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obviously is joint so having a good working relationship

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that we can laugh and have a good time

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doing something like this would probably make it

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a lot easier whenever it came down really serious

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and we knew that we could work together.

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- [Narrator] Reporting from Camp Arifjan, Kuwait

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I'm Army Sergeant Angela Lorden.

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- [Soldiers] Semper fidelis, hoorah!