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- FINEX itself is where we're taking

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that engineer portion.

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We're applying that to this cold weather environment.

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We're seeing just how different it is to actually

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build these obstacles, deal with these demolitions,

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fell trees, it's a completely different world

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and a completely different environment and this is

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a good chance for them to see just how these weather

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effects can change what they're used to seeing

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and how they're used to operating as engineers

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and really putting all their skills to the test.

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My name is Gunnery Sergeant Gearhart.

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I'm with Bravo Company.

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I am currently standing as their Bravo Company

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gunnery sergeant.

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Once they arrive they learn the cold weather

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was more of the factor to start paying attention to.

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So they got some classes on that when we first arrived.

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And then they got their first experience after

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the first week or so of getting used to being out here

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and that first experience was an eye-opener.

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All the classes and all the lessons they got for warfare

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kind of got put aside as they started learning more that

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they needed to focus more on the survival portion.

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(fuse snapping)

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(radio noise)

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(bomb blasting)

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Once they finish blowing the trees down,

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just like they've been doing here, still helping out

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the area so we gotta de-limb everything, get everything

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staged for site, come out and clean everything up

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and then after those few days they'll transition

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to the last part of the effects and in that is where

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all the marines are gonna get a chance to experience

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goin' through and detonating some charges to cause

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for avalanches and to cause for some ice breaching.

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(axe chopping)

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Not everywhere you go is gonna be this big open desert

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or this lush land of rocks or whatever.

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Here they're dealing with the snow, they're dealing

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with force, they're getting into a whole new type

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of terrain, a whole new feature that they've never

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dealt with before.

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And to be able to go through that and get that versatility

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and understanding, our goal is to be able to fight

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at any climate, any place, we don't know what

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the future might hold for where our deployments

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are gonna go so it's a real good way for those marines

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in this unit to be able to be prepared for any climate

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or place.