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- I'm airman Sara Kolinski
with the one-o-fourth

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fighter wing here at the
emergency operations center,

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where most of the communication happens

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during exercises like the one
happening at Barnes today.

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The purpose of the EOC is to collect,

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and disseminate information
in the chain of command,

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from the base commander
down to every airman,

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and back up again.

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- Overall goal is to inform commanders,

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and leadership of the
capabilities of their units.

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We evaluate, independently evaluate,

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so we try to be as objective as we can

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about the actual observation,

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and then we motivate
and educate after that.

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- Airmen are able to take their education,

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and turn it into confidence.

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- I felt pretty good about
the exercise last year,

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I learned a lot last year, like
how to all of the stuff on,

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and like, how to work in it,

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so this year's just kind
of like a refresher,

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I'm feeling more comfortable
putting everything on.

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- [Sara] The exercise
is proven successful,

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because even the newest
airmen feel comfortable

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working in a contested environment,

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like the ones simulated in this exercise.

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- [John] I'm real proud to
have been a part of this,

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and I think that we're
gonna get a lot out of it.

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We're informing the
commander of the capabilities

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of the organization, and
all of the commanders

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at every level, so we hope that

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they get as much out of it as we do.