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- [Edward] United States Marines

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with the Marine Rotational Force Europe

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participated in Exercise White Claymore in northern Norway.

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- So far we've conducted two weeks of training

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with the United Kingdom Royal Marines,

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really focusing on ski mobility,

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and now we're here actually at our tactics piece,

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which is a blank fire exercise as a company,

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each platoon spread out in their own track plan

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conducting offensive operations against an enemy

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sized as a platoon reinforced.

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- [Edward] The exercise allowed marines

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to train in the uniquely austere climate,

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where the environment itself is an enemy.

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- It taxes every marine so much more.

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You can't keep them out in the elements

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for as long as you could, say in the desert

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or in the swamps of Camp Lejeune,

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because constantly we're in sub-zero weather

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with a nasty wind chill and it just takes it out of marines.

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Every commander has to keep that in mind

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when they're operating in this environment.

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That's probably the biggest danger to us as we operate here.

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As we all say, if we can survive here,

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we can survive anywhere.

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It's definitely apparent seeing what my guys

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are going through, through this training.

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- For Defense Media Activity Europe and Africa,

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I'm Specialist Edward Salcedo.