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- Participating in an
exercise like Tradewinds

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is a good change of pace for the crew

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where we get to work with other nations

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in a more controlled environment.

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- The Coast Guard is
one of the few agencies

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that's actually able to get supplies

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to different affected regions,
whether it's medicine,

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clean water, food, so

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Tradewinds allows us to
sit down, communicate

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with all the different
agencies internationally

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and figure out how to
solve much larger problems.

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- [Narrator] I lean on an
exercise like Tradewinds,

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where 22 different
countries work together,

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share ideas, and best practices,

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it helps a lot when it comes
to regional cooperation

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between the US, Coast Guard,
and our partner nations

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in the region.

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The relationships that we build here

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also allow us to know who to call?

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Who are we working with on the other side

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whenever there's a natural disaster,

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or when we are fighting one
of our regional threats.

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Here at Tradewinds, we
have countries such as

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Mexico, Canada, the
UK, Dominican Republic,

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St. Vincent and Grenadines,
and we participated

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in exercises such as
gunnery, damage control,

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and law enforcement exercises,
as well as search and rescue

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and mass rescue operations.