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- [Gloria] Marines and sailors with

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Marine Rotational Force Europe 18.1,

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spent three weeks in
the Norwegian wilderness

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enhancing their survival
skillsets recently.

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The exercise kicked off with ski

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and snowshoe instruction,

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courtesy of Norwegian
winter warfare specialists

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from Home Guard 12.

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- Important to have the cold weather

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certification for the company in the event

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that we were going to pull anywhere out of

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Norway into a cold weather environment

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and that we have the
experience and exposure.

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From my perspective its gone very well,

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from the Norwegian side

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and the United States Marine Core side,

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both parties have worked together

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much better than anyone anticipated.

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- [Gloria] Following their ski instruction

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the service members learned how to build

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and live in snow caves.

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- [Knut] For the Marines that live

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and serve in warmer places,

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its very nice to have this

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basic training

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and to make sure that they
know the skills and drills

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because if they are going
to fight and survive

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in the cold weather environment,

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you also have to train there.

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So make sure that you
follow the hard routines,

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learn them and use them.

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- [Gloria] Exercise
participants also refined

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their cold weather
infantry tactics through

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several live fire squad
and platoon attacks.

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(gunfire)

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- [ Andrew] Unit cohesion
is naturally built by trial

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and tribulation

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so being in a cold weather
environment with heavy packs

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on skis you've never used before

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or snowshoes you've never used before,

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I think naturally creates
some cohesion there.

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I believe the unit came up here with

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already a very strong unit cohesion

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and certainly this environment
only continues to build that.

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- [Gloria] The Marines
and sailors concluded

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the training evolution by conducting

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a polar plunge to simulate
falling through ice

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into near freezing water.

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I'm Corporal Gloria Lepko.