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- [Narrator] Chemical, biological, radiological

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and nuclear attacks, or CBRN attacks are a very real threat.

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CBRN marines educated Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack

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Squadron 242 on how to decontaminate F-18s with a rigorous

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cleaning process that's both safe and effective.

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- Passing on what I know to other marines is great

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because it helps me feel confident that those marines

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have the ability and the knowledge to be able to go

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down range in these potentially hazardous environments and

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operate efficiently, performing their job and staying safe.

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- [Narrator] Marines prepare themselves

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by simulating a chemical attack and donning

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full-body protective equipment during the exercise.

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- I would describe my job as training other marines to face

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probably the worst threat that we see out there right now.

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Training them so that's like that, they become proficient in

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protecting themselves, protecting the people next to them,

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protecting their equipment, as well as just being able to

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fight off against a wide array of weapons

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that the enemies have.

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- [Narrator] The training allows service members to quickly

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decontaminate aircraft and get them back into the fight.

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- It's relevant to every marine who takes part

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and every marine on this base.

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Without being forward deployed, and in so close proximity

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to state actors and non-state actors, they could use these

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weapons, we need to have the training

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in a very timely manner and consistently conducted.

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- [Narrator] Marines completed the exercise by moving

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through a simulated decontamination line

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to safely remove all protective equipment.

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Reporting from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan,

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I'm Lance Corporal Calvin Hilt.