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- [Adrien] For DOD, GHE
is certainly the tool

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to obtain access and influence.

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And through that you strengthen alliances,

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build partner capacity,
foster health security,

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both domestically and globally.

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Case in point, Angola.

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When I was in Africom, we had no access.

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DOD was not in Angola.

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So post Ebola, I got an ask saying,

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"Hey, do you speak Portuguese?"

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I said, "Yes, I do."

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I said, "Well, what's the issue?"

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He says, "Well, we're
looking for ways and means

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to get a relationship with Angola.

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And I said, "Ah,"

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I said, "You understand that they have

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"a very close relationship with Serbia."

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"Well, what does that have to do with us?"

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I said, "Have you ever heard of

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"the state partnership program?"

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"Well, what is that?"

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I said, "Ah, that's what
we're going to leverage

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"to get you into Angola."

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I said, "Serbians have an
excellent relationship with Ohio.

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"So why don't we do a medical
readiness training exercise

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"in Serbia and we'll have the Ohioans

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"ask the Serbians to bring in the Angolans

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"and then I will fly out there
and we'll have a discussion

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"and make sure they got
their surgeon out there.

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"We want the surgeon
general at all possible."

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So he's out there and I'm explaining,

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"Hey," in Portuguese course,
now I have his attention.

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I'm speaking his language.

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And I'm like, "Hey, well do
you like what you're seeing?"

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And he's like, "Well, this is great.

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"It's not really something we want.

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"We're really interested in Ebola."

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I said, "Oh, you're interested in Ebola.

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"Oh, okay, well, you know, I manage that

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"effort on the ground for
three and a half months."

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And he's like, "What?

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"You did?"

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I said, "Yes."

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And he's like, "Well,
do you know so-and-so?"

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"Yes, I know so-and-so.

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"Do you know so-and-so?"

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Oh, now we have a relationship.

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I said, why don't you come
back out to Stuttgart.

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This time you come to the Yukon,

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I will coordinate all of this.

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Keep in mine, I was at Africom.

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The reason for Yukon it's
Serbia, relationship, Ohio,

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that state parks program belongs to Yukon.

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So he came out with his counterparts.

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We had Africom at the table.

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We had Serbia, we had Angola
and we had the state partner.

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We put the surgeon general
out there and basically say,

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"Hey sir, can you just
give us an overview of,

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"sort of what your
health system looks like,

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"and where your potential needs are."

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So he did that.

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So based on his potential needs,

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I asked the Serbian surgeon general say,

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"Based on what you just heard,

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"what can you do to bridge
some of those needs?"

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So he briefed that out.

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Based on what he briefed he
couldn't fill all the needs.

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So then I asked the state
partner, military, Ohio,

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"Based on what you just heard,

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"how can you support the Serbians
to support the Angolans?"

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Not us, we're supporting the Serbians.

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Whatever they couldn't do,
or couldn't fund, Yukon,

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"What can you fund to support
Ohio to support the Serbians,

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"to support the Angolans?"

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And whatever was left that's Africom.

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And now we have a great relationship.

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And the beauty of that story.

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It's the holistic approach.

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So you got the active
duty, you got the guard,

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you got Yukon, you got Africom,

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you got Serbia, and now you've got Angola.

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And as a result of that whole effort

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we now have a relationship with Angola.

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