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- [Narrator] Exercise Pacific Thunder is in full

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swing here at OSAN and giving us an inside look

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is OSAN's Lead Project Officer from the 25th

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Fighter Squadron Captain Travis Vayda.

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- So Pacific Thunder is PACAF's Pacific Air Force's Command

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leading combat search and rescue exercise.

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It is the largest do, and we do it twice a year

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here at OSAN.

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Over 20 units from US and Korean forces participate

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in the exercise to meet combat search and rescue

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training objectives.

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Should a war kick off anywhere in the Asian region

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we would be most likely tasked to go support there in terms

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of a CSAR role should anything happen

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like any type of pilot gets shot down

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that is our job.

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- [Narrator] Since the first Pacific Thunder

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in 2009, the scale of the exercise has grown significantly,

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but the importance of the mission has never changed.

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- It is one of the most difficult missions to do based

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on the fact that the guy has already had the worst day

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of his life and now he's in unknown territory with other

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people around him trying to kill him and our job is to go

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out there, get everyone in safely, pick him up

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and bring him back home safely.

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- [Narrator] The two week long exercise will continue

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on into the second week of November.

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Senior Airmen Ashley Adkins, OSAN Air Base,

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Republic of Korea.