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Can you just explain this isn't over

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review of what we're doing here today ?

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Well today , uh we are at charlie

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Battery , Fifth Battalion , Seventh Air

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Defense Artillery Patriot . This is a

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patriot battery that is participating

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in Astral Night 21 which is a joint and

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combined integrated air missile defense

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exercise uh led by european command

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with all service components U . S .

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Army europe and U . S . Army correction .

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U . S . Air Force europe participating .

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And what do you hope that the soldiers

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here that the soldiers involved get out

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of this training ? Well , the biggest

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takeaway is building readiness , their

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air and missile defense skills in the

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three areas that they're really

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focusing on within interoperability

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because that is one of the key task for

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us to be able to really established

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integration of our air missile defense

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systems from the United States and with

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our Croatian counterparts . And those

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three tasks are building relationships .

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That's the human aspect of it ,

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technical capabilities . How do we

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physically connect the radar's build a

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persistent architecture . And last is ,

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once we get it all together , we

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establish the relationships , We gotta

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have procedures in place and how we

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fight together and based on what you've

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seen in this year's offender . What do

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you hope to see that ? Well , next year

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we want to actually start where we stop

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today , so we should have our own

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tactical standing operating procedures

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jointly produced . And next year we'll

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build it larger with several other

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members of the NATO alliance . Our goal

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is to get all 30 members together on a

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persistent architecture to be able to

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provide integrated air missile defense

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for all of europe . Yeah ,

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thank you so much for our Croatian

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armed Forces for hosting us today . And

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and really thank you to the soldiers of

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charlie battery . Uh what what an

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incredible event and experience that

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they will never forget working with the

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Croatian armed forces counterparts .

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But also they usually just convoyed

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from the country of Sylvania , where

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they met the president of Sylvania and

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the Chief of defence .