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- [Instructor] You learn a lot while teaching people.

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^The possibilities are endless, the point is--

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^You're passing on the knowledge that will

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^hopefully save these guys' lives.

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The training today is, we have two different scenarios.

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One is based inside of a building.

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The other is a IED that is attached to a fuel point.

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The goal of today is for these guys to remove the items

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from their original emplacement safely

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by using ropes and distance, and taking them to

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a safe area and then disposing of them.

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We have a group of soldiers that are all together.

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We have two ropes set up and they are removing

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a remote-controlled IED from a

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fuel point by using the two ropes.

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The one rope lifted the device off of the fuel point.

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The other rope is pulling it to a safe area.

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It's important to use ropes to keep the distance

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to keep yourself safe to where you can be behind cover.

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You can be behind a building or put

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some distance between you and the IED.

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(speaking over each other off mic)

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When they're done here with training,

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they go up north here to the Chad Lake Basin

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to fight Boko Haram.

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This training's relevant because

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the emerging threat of IEDs here

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they're getting more complex.

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We usually start our training by asking them

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a lot of questions on what are the threats,

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what are you guys seeing, and their leadership told us

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that the big threats that they're seeing

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are vehicle-borne IEDs and suicide vests.

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We'll have a pickup truck set up with a large IED

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with multiple switches and they'll have to go through

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the order of taking everything apart

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and doing it from distance using ropes and things,

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and we'll have some suicide vests on some people.

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We're very concerned about the

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long-term fight that they're gonna have.

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It means a lot to me personally.

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I've done a fight, I've done exactly what they're gonna do,

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and I know how dangerous it is.

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I've been on both sides of the effects of it,

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and so it means everything.

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(talking over each other off mic)