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- Crew-served weapons, as in M-249 and the M-240 Bravo.

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Deficiencies were identified from the brigade,

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battalion, and company commanders across the state

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on these specific weapon systems, and then we were asked

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^to create a POI and formulate a way to get soldiers trained

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^and make it a course, so that way when we send the soldiers

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back to their units they can be labeled as

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a subject matter expert on these specific weapon systems.

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- I've been in a weapons squad for most of my career.

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Coming into it, I thought a lot of this

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^was going to be repetitive.

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^However, the TM's are constantly changing,

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so there's a lot of new SOP's and stuff I've picked up on.

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So we're able to take new things back to the unit.

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- When these soldiers leave here, they'll be able

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to go back, stand in front of their commander,

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and be able to advise the commander on how to properly run

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a crew-served weapon qual range, how to properly identify

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TRP's, how to properly construct a machine gun position.

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- 500.

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- [Anthony] And then also facilitate the conduct

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of a crew-served weapons qual range.

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- As far as going back to the unit, I feel very confident

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to take back the new information.

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I'm actually very excited to do so.

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I have my younger soldiers with me,

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so they're eager to get back and train up.