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- Fire in the hole!

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Fire in the hole!

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Fire in the hole!

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(explosion)

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- I'm Staff Sergeant Chase Escalante.

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I'm an explosive ordinance
disposal technician,

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and today we are partnering
with our Nigerian counterparts

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on energetic tools and knowledge
exchanges and partnering.

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It's extremely important
here, in the local area,

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they need to be able
to sustain themselves.

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We can come in and we can
kind of provide that guidance,

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and then we can also see
what their tactics are.

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That way we can help shape
them better than the future.

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That way they can do
everything on their own.

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They're very apt to pick
up the technics and tactics

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that we have shown them.

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They love to learn, they're
very quick about learning things

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and they pick it up very well.

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Really good for them, that way
they can apply that downrange

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(speaking in foreign language)

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- [Translator] I feel a
specific duty to do it

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because I love my country.

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I'm really proud of what I'm doing

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because that's a lot of people
that don't wanna do this.

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But I'm gonna volunteer to be part of it,

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so I'm very happy that I'm
doing it for the country,

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and for people's safety.

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(speaking in foreign language)

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- [Translator] I learn
so many things from them.

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- Fold it three times.

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- [Translator] There's a
lot of people that we have

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in America's side that we
don't have yet in Niger.

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Hopefully in the future,
we can have some of it,

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but right now we don't have
it, but I know those things,

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so I feel like I'm on
the top of the world.

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Nobody else have what I know,

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so that's the main thing
that I can say that I get

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from everything that we
been doing together so far.

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(explosion)