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- [Alyssa] Northern viper

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training exercise focuses
on enhancing abilities

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to train and fight with the Japanese

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ground self defense force in
a cold weather environment.

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Marines started with mobility training,

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learning to ski and pull sleds,

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survival and environmental training,

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then moved on to remaining lethal.

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- [Lt. Col. Chris] I think the biggest win

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so far is how quickly the
marines have acclimatized.

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Gotten through their
environmental training

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without issue and then the
thing I'm most proud of

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is how well they've
adjusted to the mobility

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piece of fighting in cold and fighting

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in the snow through
the skis and the sleds.

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Obviously it's a lot of fun
but they also took to it,

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and it's a lotta hard work
and they did very well.

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- Petty Officer Alyssa
Weeks, Misawa airbase, Japan.

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(faint gong reverberating)