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- [Justin] It's been challenging.

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Their bodies are starting to hurt

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but we're pushing through it

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and they're giving me
everything they've got.

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They're just pushing themselves
as far as they can go.

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- So MCCREs Marine Corps
Combat Readiness Evaluation

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is something that every
battalion will go through

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in their pre-deployment training cycle.

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And it's an opportunity for
the regiment to evaluate

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the battalion on their
ability to conduct tasks

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from the individual up
to the battalion level

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with an emphasis on no
squad being untrained

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so that everyone gets an opportunity

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to get some feedback and
evaluation on their performance.

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One of the big differences

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between this MCCRE and other MCCREs

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is that there's three battalions

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from the regiment participating,

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2/5 and 1/5 are acting
as the exercise force

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and then you've got 2/4
participating as the adversary force

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and also exercise control and evaluators.

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- [Hunter] Ours was
slated out as two weeks

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with roughly probably seven
to ten days out in the field

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and we had about four days
on the front end of planning.

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The resiliency is a big factor, right,

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always want to see how
resilient marines are.

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We started this thing
off with a 20 mile hike

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the night before we
inserted into the MCCRE.

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You look at the boys,

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you see them walking around,

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a lot of sore feet as
soon as we finish the hike

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but they really suck it up.

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They've been toughing it out through this.

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We just finished our air
assault for Golf company.

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We did a raid into one of the towns

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and now Echo to Fox are
getting ready to step off

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and do basically a battalion
minus movement to contact

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on to another objective.

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1/5's already headed out

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and they're gonna be conducting mec raids

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and probably a few air assaults as well.

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Simultaneously clearing along
the coastline to out the shelf

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probably ending up around
Meteo in a defensive posture.

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- [Michael] I'd say any time
that an event is created where

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the marines don't know what
the next day is gonna bring

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or when we're gonna
get picked up by trucks

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or what the enemy's gonna
look like on the objective.

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Overcoming uncertainty and
dealing with uncertainty

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and the human nature of war,

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any time we can simulate that in an event,

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I think that's the biggest thing
for the marines to overcome

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and when you couple that with sore feet,

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hunger and fatigue,

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it just makes for a great training event

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and it's gonna make our marines
more prepared for combat.

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