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- All right, I'm Lieutenant
Colonel Casey Lee.

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I'm the commander of
task force 325-aviation,

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it's an army aviation
task force of helicopters

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that is here to support Cobra Gold.

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So the events today are
going to be both joint

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and multinational, so we'll
be activities conducted

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by both American and Thai troops,

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but also across all the
different branches of service,

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so Army, Marines, Navy.

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My team are from the
Army, we have Black Hawks.

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Black Hawk helicopters
and Apache helicopters

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that we'll be using today,

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and our specific mission
will be in conjunction

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with the beach landing,

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and that will be to conduct an air assault

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of Army soldiers into an
objective to seize that objective.

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So, doing an exercise like this

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gives us a unique opportunity to,

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not just work with Thai soldiers,

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but also with some of our
other sister components.

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We get the ability to
work with other pieces

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of equipment that we're not familiar with,

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learn some of their capabilities,

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and also learn some of
the techniques, tactics,

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and procedures that
the other agencies use,

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and just get better at
working together, overall.

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So far Cobra Gold has been
an amazing experience,

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both for me and my soldiers.

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To be able to see Thailand,

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to work with some of the Thai locals,

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and be able to show what we can do

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and deploy our full capabilities,

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it's fun, it's exciting,
and it's a great challenge.