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- Hi. I'm Lieutenant Colonel
Tanner Spry, commander of 1-25

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Attack Reconnaissance Battalion,

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stationed at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

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We're excited about this partnership

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with 656 Apache Squadron from the UK.

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They reached out to us
this week to learn about

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how to conduct Apache operations
in an Arctic environment.

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- So back in 2017, there
was a visit by the UK Apache

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Attack Helicopter Force to
1-25 ARB to try and learn some

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of the lessons for how to
operate the Apache Attack

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helicopter in the Arctic environment.

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But we've now come back
to further that knowledge

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and understand more of how
to operate and how to fight

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in this environment.

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Hopefully learn from the
experiences of the Americans

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to try and further our own
capability as we progress

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into the high north of Europe.

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- [LC Spry] So 1-25 was
reactivated here at Fort Wainwright

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in 2015, so this will
be our fourth winter now

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that we are entering.

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So we've learned a lot
in the three winters

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that we've been here in Alaska.

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Most of those lessons learned
come from just conducting

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maintenance operations in
a cold weather environment.

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Being able to maintain
the aircraft is difficult

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on a normal day, but
put in this environment,

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there's some additional challenges

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that we must work through.

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- I think my biggest takeaway is how harsh

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the environment is and
how you need to treat it

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with such respect.

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It's unforgiving, it's
unique and it's hostile

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and dangerous, and I
think that this 1-25th,

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they've really demonstrated
that it's something

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you can't take for granted,
you have to respect

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the environment and it's
something you can't take lightly.

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Visiting here has been
absolutely phenomenal.

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It really demonstrates
to me how similar we are

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in our ethos, in our thinking.

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The hospitality has been phenomenal,

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everyone's been so welcoming and so honest

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with their experiences
and really allowed us

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to learn some amazing lessons

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and will allow us to generate
a fight critical capability

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for the U.K. in Apache
helicopters in the future.