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- Few years ago,

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General Boils decided
he wanted to invest time

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with his senior grade
officers and enlisted soldiers

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as well as company grade to make sure

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that there's opportunities
throughout the year

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to do professional development growth,

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and we feel like going
to different battlefields

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gives you that opportunity

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to learn some of the
lessons that they offer.

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- We talked about, yesterday,

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Colonel McCullouch mentioned
the history they'll teach you,

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is that this is coalition warfare, okay?

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- [McCullouch] The act
of doing the Lexington

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and Concord last year was the very first

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battle of the Revolutionary
War, we thought

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Yorktown would be really good to look at.

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One, you have a very
established army at this point.

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The war has gone on for
six years, and it gives you

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a very good understanding
of the operational arc

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that both commanders were using,

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as they both from the patriot side

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with George Washington and his forces,

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as well as the British
with General Clinton

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and General Cornwallis, Yorktown provides

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a very unique opportunity
to see how they arranged

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their actions on the ground to achieve

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their strategic objectives,
which was ending the war.

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- You probably don't try fix something,

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it's not a really good option.

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I mean the Navy was iffy, that was it,

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but that was his fall-back position.

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When you see that he boxes
himself in where they're

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not able to have any other
freedom of maneuvering.

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- [McCullouch] Yorktown
has all of these elements

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of operational art, arranging
operations, how commanders

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exercise mission command
in between operations,

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which is one of the great
reasons why we came here

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and decided to do the stuff
right here in Yorktown.