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My name is Jeffrey Robertson .

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Battalion Chief of operations for Naval

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district , Washington central italian

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that consists of joint base anacostia

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Bolling the naval research laboratory

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in Washington Navy Yard . Today was an

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opportunity for individuals who aren't

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normally in the leadership , the chief

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position , the captain position to ride

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in those positions to give them first

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hand experience and to show that

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they're capable of doing the job . What

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the training involved was everything

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that you would see on a traditional

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structure fire with the inclusion

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of persons trapped , everything short

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of the actual fire itself from start to

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finish . That included an emergency

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call to our regional dispatch center .

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So the trainees that are there had the

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opportunity to understand what it was

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like to receive a frantic phone call

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that carried forward to all of our

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units responding , getting the

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information without knowing ahead of

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time where it was what the situation

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was and how they would actually react

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in that real world situation .

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One thing that's really important to

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understand is even though we have units

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from J bob , the Navy Yard and our NRL

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responding together , um it's a it's

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important to really comprehend the fact

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that like we're all one team , even

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though we have resources at all these

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different locations , they all come

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together to achieve the common goal ,

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and that common goal is to protect all

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three bases .