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- Gunnery Table XI is a dry-fire version

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of Gunnery Table XII, which
is platoon certification.

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We go through different lanes
reacting to indirect fire,

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direct attack ambushes
with small arms fire,

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and medevac training.

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We train as much as we can
so that we know our job

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so that when things go wrong
we can react to it properly

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and keep driving on with the mission.

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Most of the soldiers
actually did really well.

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They're mostly new crews
and we even had soldiers

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that aren't even in the MOS

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conducting missions and operations,

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filling in for another person.

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While we're extremely
lethal, we're still training

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and getting better

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so that when we actually
do have to go live

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we'll be able to do it efficiently.

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- So my job as a soldier was to make sure

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that we are mission capable to be ready

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for any, like, chemical attacks.

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You always wanna be ready for that threat

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'cause you never know who
has it and who doesn't,

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so it's something that
you gotta be ready for.

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- As I was the platoon leader
for 2nd Platoon Bravo Battery

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I would say that my
platoon is the most lethal

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in the entire battalion
if not the entire DIVARTY.

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Our greatest strength as
a platoon, I would say,

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is our tenacity, the guys
were constantly getting at it,

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whatever task and whatever
mission was thrown

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at us at the time, the guys hit head-on

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and they never backed down.

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We always went 100% and it really showed

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with how well the guys did
during the certification.