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- I'm Captain Ulrich

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I'm the Battalion Air
Officer for three seven,

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that's currently the GCE component

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of the MRF D MAGTF.

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Within three seven, you have
a Tactical Air Control Party,

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or TACP shop.

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Within that shop you have
one Battalion Air Officer,

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and then two Forward Air Controllers,

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who are aviators that
come from the air wing

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down to the battalion.

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And then additionally we have two JTACs,

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or Joint Terminal Attack Controllers

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who are going to be our
enlisted CAS controllers.

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And including, additionally with the TACP,

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we have a JFOs, the Joint Fires Observers.

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And those guys get integrated
with the TACP as well,

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in terms of ability to call
for fire with artillery,

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as well as briefing aircraft for attacks.

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Yeah, so, this week down here at Delamere

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has probably been about a
month or so in the planning,

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just meeting with the
First Aviation Regiment

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and getting everything aligned
for us to come down here.

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They've been great hosts, they're the ones

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who actually hosted us to come down here

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to Delamere Weapons Range as well as 812,

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allowing us to come down with them.

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The whole integration
piece during this week,

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we have the JCAS pub, which is signed on

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by multiple services and countries.

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And we were able to really exercise that,

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and kind of fit a Marine JTAC
with Australian aircraft,

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and actually execute
that Close Air Support

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nearly seamlessly between
the two countries.