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- [Reporter] PEO Soldier's Rapid Fielding Initiative or

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RFI team showed up recently at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

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The RFI teams travel across the country

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prepping soldiers for deployment.

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When they show up at a base near you, the planning

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started long before the first item is ever handed out.

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- The fielding effort is primarily done prior to their

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major readiness exercise before they actually deploy.

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So it's important that we coordinated and set up way

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in advance so they'll have the proper equipment that

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they can train in and then they can deploy with as well.

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- [Reporter] RFI outfits troops with the latest

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and most up-to-date equipment.

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When soldiers get notified of deployment, you can

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be certain the RFI team will be right there with them.

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- Well we have mobile RFI fielding teams

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that travel to different installations to provide this

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equipment to some units that are deploying.

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Their mobile team they deploy to those locations,

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they set up the facility, they receive the equipment,

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they prepare for the unit to rotate through

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to receive their equipment.

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Once we've equipped the complete unit we pack up

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and we move to the next location.

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- [Reporter] Along with issuing equipment, a

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Rapid Fielding Initiative also includes training soldiers

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on any equipment that requires more detailed instruction.

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Many things are in place to support troops while deployed

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but as you can see, during an RFI, support starts long

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before they ever arrive overseas.

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From Fort Bragg, North Carolina,

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reporting for PEO Soldier, I'm Ron Lee.