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Diamond Tempest is an exercise that

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tests the unit's ability to deploy

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munitions to a given target during

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response operations . The exercise

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gives soldiers the opportunity to learn

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and develop their skills in areas such

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as loading an aircraft , staging a

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convoy and firing rockets . There's an

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air land raid we've got alerted that 0

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to 30 got accountability of everybody

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way that our trucks pre staged and load

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it out , ready to go . After receiving

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the warning and staging the equipment ,

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the team convoys to an airfield and

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loads the high mobility artillery

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rocket system or high Mars onto a C 17

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cargo aircraft . Then we moved to the

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airfield , loaded a C 17 . They took

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off , did a loop . They came back .

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They brought all their coms back up ,

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moved out . Rayfield All the vehicles

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pushed up to the firing point at camp

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hearing before taking off . The team

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conducts inspections and their

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equipment to ensure all flight safety

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measures are in place . Alfa Battery

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advances to their fire mission after

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the flight . Working with the Air Force ,

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the joint and combined efforts

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understand how to chain down trucks and

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load C 17 and fly away and come back on

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chain and executed mission like this ,

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working with other partners like that ,

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it's probably the best part . Alka

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Battery fires more rockets in a time on

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target suit , meaning all munitions

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arrived at a given target at the same

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time , executed a four round t o t .

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Time on target policy . Everybody's

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constantly doing stuff . I got

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impeachment monitoring radios , doing

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things that we've never been formally

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trained . Todo the skills learned from

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Diamond Tempest helped the soldiers

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become a more proficient and lethal

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fighting force . This battalions

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trained us how to do those things

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together , to work as a joint force

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towards a common goal . We become a

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more lethal team . Captain Brown also

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said he's impressed with the way his

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team has developed over the course of

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this exercise . I'm Army Staff Sergeant

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Daisy Broker reporting on Exercise

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Diamond Tempest at Camp Sheriff John

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Kuwait