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- Based on the threats around the world,

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we want to always train that,

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integrate that into our training,

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so if Marines were, while in deployment,

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to encounter a scenario like that,

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they'd be able to properly respond.

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^What we put together was a II MEF Information Group

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^field exercise, and what it entailed

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^was some wane training that we went out and did,

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concentrating on patrolling,

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land navigation, and then combat lifesaving.

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As a group, we need to be able to deploy

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at any given time,

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and those Marine Corps common skills are very important,

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no matter what your MOS,

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going out and sustaining Marine's ability

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from the schools that they've had before.

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Oftentimes, if you don't go out and do things like this,

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they don't get it exercised.

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So we got the Marines out there.

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They were able to train,

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able to even go outside their MOS a little bit,

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and learn new things that will benefit them,

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where they get the opportunity to deploy.

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They really took to the training.

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They took to being out in the field environment

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and really enjoyed being able to exercise

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some of those skills that they might not as often get to do.

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So I think at the end of the day,

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while some of it was difficult and challenging

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and outside of their comfort zone,

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they really were able to benefit from it.

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So I think it really benefited the Marines to get out there.