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- I believe that NTC gives
the incoming rotational unit

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the best, closest scenario to combat.

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I know for instance the 30th
is getting ready to deploy.

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This is their last look at training,

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and it's the full scale as
much as the Army can give,

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so I think it's a great opportunity,

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and nothing else will compare to it

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besides real, live combat.
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(magazines clicking)
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- We're getting ready to go overseas

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and stand on the front lines of CENTCOM.

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(helicopter blades whirring)
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- [Man] North Carolina National Guardsmen

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in the California desert right now.

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They're training for a big deployment.

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- [Man] We're currently fighting

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the 30th Armored Brigade Combat
Team from North Carolina.

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I'm the commander of the 11th
Armored Cavalry Regiment.

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- [Woman] Brigadier General Allen Boyette

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is overseeing the 4,200 soldiers.

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- [Man] We are the largest, professional,

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full-time opposing force in the world.

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- [Woman] As the brigade
for the first time

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in a decade prepares to deploy overseas.

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- [Man] Soldiers here in the
11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

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also known as the Blackhorse,
our job is to provide

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a lethal special OPFOR to train
U.S. brigade combat teams.

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- [Man] Gotta make sure we block there

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in the north to protect our flank.

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Also we gotta be able to turn the enemy

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into our engagement area.
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- [Man] It's our job to
give the training unit

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while they're here the hardest
day they will ever have,

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sort of combat, as we call it,

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the hardest day in the
desert so that when they do

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deploy around the world and go to combat,

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it's actually easier than coming here

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to the National Training Center.

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- Attention in the TOC!
- Attention in the TOC!

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- Scouts have identified an
enemy mine field, anti-tank.

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- [Soldier] Prepare to copy grids.

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First grid is November,
uniform, nine, six, one, five.

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(soldiers chatting)

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- Take care of the remaining obstacles.

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We're gonna follow the main body.

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- In general, the 30th ABCT
is gonna have a hard time

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infiltrating the city.

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(turbodiesel engine whining)
(vehicle tracks clacking)

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(automatic weapons firing)

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- [Radio] Touchdown, touchdown.

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(rifle firing)

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Let's locate the front holes.

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Once we got foothold, I
need another star cluster

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(rifle drowns out speaker) How copy, over?

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(diesel engine whining)
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(tank main gun firing)

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(tank main gun firing)

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- [Soldier] Whoa!
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- [Andrea] In Raleigh, Andrea Blanford,

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ABC 11 Eyewitness News.

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- [Radio] Okay, good
hit, now we got clarity.

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(explosion booming)

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Ready to back, bogey
coming in from the south.

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One is a mad dog establishes a foothold,

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so let's keep taking 'em.

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(mortar simulators
whistling and exploding)

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(machine gun firing)

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Yeah roger, we got eyes
on the green smoke.

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(radio speaker is garbled) We're
boarding and ready to roll.

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- [Soldier] We're doing
a great job here at NTC,

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making North Carolina
proud downrange and Ohio

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and West Virginia and South Carolina.

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