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- It'll be an exercise plan,

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or, that started here at Dyess.

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They're going to see how little support

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they can take out into a,

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sort of an unprepared location, or,

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it's an airfield they're going to,

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in Fort Worth.

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The intent is to go out to a base, and

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that we're not familiar
with operating out of,

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and see how little we can take

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to remain agile.

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So the thought is, as we look
towards the future threats,

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we're, if we deploy out to the Pacific

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or deploy out to Europe,

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we quickly become within the threat ring

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of the adversary.

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We wanna be able to be agile, move around,

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unpredictably, and with a small footprint.

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- So this is a Bomber

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Agile Combat Deployment exercises.

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So we're trying to find out
how we can change the way

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we deploy and to figure
out how we can do it

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with minimal equipment, training,

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and to get the job done.

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Yeah, so this is important
because the world's

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changing, so we need to
be able to move around

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and provide local power
to event commanders

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and throughout the world and then pick up

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and move to a new location.

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The Wing was notified 72 hours in advance,

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so, they've had a challenge
to develop the plan,

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come up with start we
needed, personnel needed,

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and then get everything in motion.

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- So, I'm Captain Josh Kelsey.

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I'm 317th Air Wing Mission Commander

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for the Bomber Agile
Combat Deployment exercise

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at the Dyess Air Force Base.

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My team was largely
responsible for the integration

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between the 7th Bomb Wing
and the 317th Air Wing

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and our sister Wings that participated

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throughout the experiment.

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We were able to
successfully launch multiple

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C130J bomber taskforce support sorties

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here at home station and they deployed

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those support packages that were enabling

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the launch of those B1s
out of the austere field.

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