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- Today's event in the 25th Air Cav Day.

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It's basically a joint effort

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between 1-6 Cav and the 25th

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to show comradery and team
building between the two.

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My involvement was, I
was the pilot in command

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that brought the Apache in,

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myself and another Warrant Officer

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piloted the aircraft in

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and then we set up the aircraft

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for static display for all
the soldiers to come by,

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all the family members and civilians

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to come take a look at the capabilities

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of the attack helicopter.

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Oh, I'm just happy to be here.

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Happy to support the Polish troops

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and the 25th Air Cav.

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- Relationship building with NATO partners

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and then the big thing with us

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is just being in Poland.

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You know, anytime we can come out

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and support a Polish event,

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where we can see their equipment

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and they can come see our equipment,

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you know it's a good
opportunity for the unit.

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They did an air assault
bringing ground guys in,

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some of the land ops and then
they also did parachuting ops.

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- Well I think the
importance is really showing

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that the NATO alliance is strong.

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We train.

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This is our primary training
partner here in Poland

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so there are training
events outside of today

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that we conduct with this unit

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to increase our interoperability with them

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and then today is really
just a family gathering

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to show that we are one family.

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So I think this event really just shows

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the strong bonds and
linkages between the unit

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and the strength of the alliance.

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So my squadron, Squadron Task Force,

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is for deploy to Poland

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to act as a deterrent force

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to increase their interoperability

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with their training partners

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and really just show that
NATO is one team, one fight.