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- So today, we've conducted several

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different training evolutions.

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So we started the day
off with an IED class,

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given by my platoon sergeant,
Staff Sergeant Lowery.

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He talked about different
types of indicators,

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the construction of IEDs,

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and then our counter-IED procedures.

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Going off that, my squadron's
constructed an IED lane,

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so, Improved Explosive Device lane,

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in order to identify
some of those indicators

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that Staff Sergeant Lowery talked about.

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So that the Filipino
marines and the U.S. marines

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could sustain their
ability to identify IEDs

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as they're patrolling around.

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Filipino and U.S. marines
got an opportunity

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to practice using a Holley stick,

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one of our tools in
approaching IED situations.

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- We're conducting MOUT training,

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Military Operations on Urban Terrain,

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focused more on booby traps
and IEDs in that urban terrain.

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As well as we've been
continuing to progress on

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two and four man room clearing.

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And, we've added in some
combat life-saving scenarios

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for the Philippine marines, as well.

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The joint training has
definitely benefited both

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the U.S. marines, and
as well as our partners,

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the Philippine marines.

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You can see from the first
day to where we're at now,

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day three.

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The Philippine marines, as
well as the U.S. marines

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their partnership has progressed.

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They've become more proficient
with their MOUT skills,

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and really benefited everybody.

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Kinda working forward to using

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it out there on the battlefield.

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- When they teach us
something, we feed off of it.

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We have infantry tactics
in the marine corps,

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which we use most of the time,

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but I've used some of the
tactics they taught us, as well.

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So, the comradery is there.

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I love that they actually respect us,

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and we respect them.

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That's what I've seen
about the Filipino marines.