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five

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53rd session featured the gate

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combat team takes part in a large scale

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U . S . Army led multinational exercise

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designed to readiness and

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interoperability between US NATO and

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partner militaries . 53rd I . B . C . T .

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S . Mission As part of immediate

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response 21 the length exercise and

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defender 21 was to deploy expeditiously .

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Our brigade from the United States over

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to eastern europe so that we could take

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our forces spread it out over five

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different countries were able to take

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those missions once we deployed and our

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soldiers were able to end bed with our

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partner nations and we're able to do

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individual and collective training ,

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thus building the interoperability with

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our partner forces but also building

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our readiness and their readiness at

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the individual

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Zara . Smiling and being in cadet

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speaks of her experience working with

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soldiers . We started by some

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stationery . We have to go through it

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and learn different stuff we need in

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military . It was a real pleasure . We

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learn new things . We developed what we

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learned during this time , and our

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interaction was very good . Oh ,

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wear slightly different uniforms were

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slightly different flag patches on our

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shoulders when we get down to it and we

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get behind our rifles and we start

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doing individual soldier skills were

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exactly the same For the 53rd Infantry

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Brigade combat team . It's time to go

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home , but our commitment to defender

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europe will carry on . Mhm .

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As you now undertake

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difficult tasks that are necessary to

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achieve Albania's full attention .

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The biggest game that we got over here

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was working with our partners and

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getting those shared experiences ,

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learning new things from our partner

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forces and in seeing problems , issues

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and training to another lens .