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^- We're part of the Unit Deployment Program.

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^We've been on a six month deployment.

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^Simply put, we're here in case diplomacy should ever fail.

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^We're very prepared this time.

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^We haven't been this prepared probably in two years.

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^So all of our airplanes, all of our pilots,

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^all of our maintainers are all ready to go

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^at a moment's notice.

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^- So we sent a few air craft out earlier

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^to basically get the pilots out,

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^see if they can log in some flight hours

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^and possibly log some training.

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^- Marines performed very well.

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^We were able to do all the required tasks,

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^i.e. meeting all the flight hours

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^for this whole six months that we did out here.

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^We had aircrew get a lot of their qualifications

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^to get ready for WTI.

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^As well as getting Marines qualified within their divisions.

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^We pushed on green side training,

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^we've got a lot of MCMA belts done,

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^we got a lot of qualifications with our pilots.

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^And we came out here with a lot of inexperience,

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^and I think this UDP has definitely been beneficial

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^for getting our new guys experience for the next UDP,

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^when some of us aren't around.