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- [Dallas] Reserve Marines, with 6th Air Naval Gunfire

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Liaison Company, and soldiers with the 31st Georgia Light

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Infantry Battalion,

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completed a mission readiness exercise,

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aboard Joint Multinational Readiness Center

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in Hohenfels, Germany, from August 10th to the 25th, 2017.

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The purpose of this month-long MRE is to not only

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build readiness for their deployment to Afghanistan,

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but to also figure out how the past several months

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of training has been utilized with the Georgia Deployment

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Program Resolute Support Mission.

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- The purpose of this exercise

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^is to bring the Georgian Battalion,

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^with the infantry advisors,

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^and now bring us enablers in with fire support,

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^so when the scheme maneuver and the plans are made,

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we can help advise with fires and integrate all three assets

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from the Georgians, the advisors,

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and the enablers themselves.

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- [Dallas] The role of the 6th ANGLICO Supporting Arms

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Liaison Team, was to serve as the battalion's fire support

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coordination center for all of the battalion's missions.

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Training events conducted included close air support

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coordination training in which the 6th ANGLICO Assault

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and Georgian soldiers rehearsed coordination

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of air evacuations and targeting enemy combatants.

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This year alone, Marine Forces Reserve has already

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mobilized 813 reserved Marines

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and provided 4,500 Marines,

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for a multitude of theater specific exercises

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and security cooperation events.

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Reporting from Hohenfels, Germany,

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I'm Corporal Dallas Johnson.