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(Jet Roaring)

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- [Narrator] After months
of hard work and strategic

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planning, Blue flag
2019 has come to an end.

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Two hundred and fifty airmen stationed at

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Spangdahlem Air Base
left the comforts of home

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to work in an austere location.

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Learning what it takes
to work under pressure

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with serveral different nations.

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- Blue Flag is a great
opportunity for us to come

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together with other partner
nations, and to train

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the things that we don't
normally to train when

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we're training at home.

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It allows us to look at
the interconnectivity

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between our different system types.

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This one in particular is
looking at linking fourth

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generation to fifth generation fighters.

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As well as looking at how we
can use Link 16 capabilities

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to connect both NATO and non-NATO players

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under the same interconnected network.

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- [Narrator] In addition to
learning to integrate across

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generations of aircraft,
participants in the exercise

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learn to operate across cultures.

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- There are two things which
I'd like to point out first

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our host nation is a non-NATO member.

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So normally you go to exercise where

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everybody is a NATO member.

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Here, you can see how host nations,

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like the Isreali Airforce,
operate and conduction missions

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and that is really,
really interesting for us.

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Second, normally on exercises
you have huge airspace.

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Here, the airspace is limited.

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In the airspace things will happen quick

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and you have to adjust your

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game plan in the air multiple times.

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- [Narrator] The lessons
learned and relationships formed

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at blue flag, help make
our air force better.

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- And the dedication, and the
energy that each and every one

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of the airmen here has had is amazing.

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And additionally, they've
really reached out to

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not just the host nation, Isreal,

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but all of the other partners here

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and really started to
form those relationships

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and those bonds at all levels.

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Which are going to be critical
when we come back together

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if we need to fight a war.

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- [Narrator] I'm Airmen
First Class Alex Miller,

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Ovda Airbase, Isreal.