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- Fire in the hole!

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Fire in the hole!

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- [Narrator] The 4th and
final Raven's Challenge

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of 2018 saw its share
of tactical detonations.

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(bomb explodes)

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Some big, some small.

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(bomb explodes)

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The noncompetitive events of
the week long Raven's Challenge

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Interoperability Exercise
provide extremely realistic

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settings and situations for
defusing and deactivating

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improvised explosive devices.

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- This side of Camp
Dawson, West Virginia gives

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the opportunity to do multiple scenarios

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between a coal fire manufacturing plant

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industrial complex,
cabins out in the woods.

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- [Narrator] The goal is to
create several opportunities

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annually for military EOD
teams, civilian public safety

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bomb squad teams and our
international partners

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to work together.

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- One of the teams that's part of my group

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this week is Canada.

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There are times when you find
yourself working together

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in the real world, so
it's good to have an idea

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of how they're gonna operate.

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- We make observations during
the course of the exercise,

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and then we're able to
relay those observations

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so that these teams can
identify their successes.

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- [Narrator] The Air Force
Civil Engineer Center's

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Explosive Ordinance Disposal Division

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at Tyndall Air Force Base,
Florida, directly supports

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Raven's Challenge by
coordinating participation

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of Air Force EOD teams
and ensuring they have

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the required tools
- Fire in the hole!

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and equipment to conduct

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these multi-agency integrated operations.

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- You are partnering
(gun fires)

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with the best of the best,
between the Homeland Security,

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ATF, Marines, Army, units coming together,

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the experience that they bring
to this fight is tremendous.

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- [Narrator] Raven's
Challenge is funded by

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the Department of the Army
and led by the Department

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of Justice's Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms

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and Explosives, or ATF.
(bomb explodes)

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- Really an opportunity
for the teams to share

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their tactics, techniques and procedures.

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- [Narrator] Reporting for
AFIMSC, I'm Brian Godden.