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- To be in a Warfighter
exercise, is an exercise

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to test the skills of soldiers
on how to use our systems.

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And to give the commanding general

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the best picture of what he needs

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to make his decisions with.

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We can do our best job,

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but the enemy's always
got a say in what happens.

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If we can have our soldiers
knowing their jobs,

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and come out performing well,
I think we'll do very well.

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- I'm tracking to see what
flies up into the air.

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Missiles, mortars,
helicopters, jets, anything.

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- I'm just impressed how fast the team has

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come together and gelled
around the commanding officer.

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To build a team that's
reactive, responsive,

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can think through the problems,

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can also think 96 hours into the future.

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Which is how you win conflict.

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- We have these enemy alarms.

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- I've seen the Red
Bulls go from, you know,

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"How is this going to work"
to, you know, I guess this

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is appropriate, taking
the bull by the horns

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and being very aggressive
with the skills that they're,

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they've either just learned
or have already learned.

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They're open to suggestions,
very quick to the latest

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training techniques, tactics.

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- We started planning this,
we started rehearsing this

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back in November. And so
we've just been kind of going

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through that whole crawl,
walk, run, and so this

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is just kind of our final walk
before we'll actually have

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to run so that when we're
called upon we're ready to go.

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- Unlike your regular, active-duty
division, which they're

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24-7, 365 days a year military,

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guard divisions bring
something more than fighting

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than regular army division does.

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Civilian skills plus
pretty high, very high-end

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military skills come
together and can create,

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sometimes a better outcome than
a regular army division has.

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- This is about my seventh
or eighth Warfighter,

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or major exercise, and every
one of 'em is challenging.

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If we come out with my soldiers knowing

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their job better, that's success for me.

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- They were very positive and really

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set the bar high for others who follow.

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- This is a Warfighter exercise.

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We're really working
hard, we're trying hard,

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we're practicing for months on this.

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The soldiers know what they're doing.

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So now it's just making sure
that they're doing it safely.

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Making sure that we don't
have any injuries here

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because we've got other
things and bigger things

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that we're going on to after this.

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