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^- Our whole point in being here in Bulgaria

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^is to sustain and demonstrate combat readiness,

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^so that's gonna enable our battalion to deter aggression

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^from near-peer allies, and by us conducting

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^a non-standard platoon wildfire qualification.

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^It's not a canned range like we normally do in the army.

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^We are able to design this range from the ground up

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^and get these guys extremely good training,

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^and then our Bulgarian partners,

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^as well as anyone else who's watching gets to see us do it.

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^We've got to go through an entire training glidepath,

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^basically, from the ground-level training

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^all the way through collective maneuver training

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^here at the platoon level, so this can give us a chance

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^to validate all the training that they've done

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^up to this point, see how all of the little tasks

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^that they've learned how to do actually tie

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^into the bigger picture and how their little piece

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^of the pie fits into the overall scheme of things.

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