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the two to a theater Tactical Signal

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Brigade of Spartanburg is made up of

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the one 51st expeditionary Signal

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battalion headquartered in Greenville

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Company , be the 1 98 expeditionary

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signal battalion in Newbury And the 1

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25th Cyber Protection Battalion at

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McIntyre Joint National Guard Base .

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The two to a theater tactical single

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brigade and its soldiers were quick to

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respond to the call of the nation . On

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November 26 , 2001 following the

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attacks to the nation in September the

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228th had a two person signal team

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mobilized to Kuwait in support of the

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Global War on Terrorism . Shortly after ,

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in January 2000 to another 13 person

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team was mobilized with another two

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person team mobilized in October 2002 .

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In late January 2003 , the 151st Signal

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Battalion was alerted and on February

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10 received mobilization orders for 430

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soldiers Along with another 130

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soldiers from the 1 14th signal company

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out of Camden . The service members

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deployed into kuwait with portions of

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the units moving forward into to leo

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Iraq and later to Baghdad to provide

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area signal coverage for Baghdad

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International Airport . Since 9 11 ,

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I've been on three mobilizations in

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support of global war on terror , One

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to Iraq in 2003 and 2004 and then two

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times to Afghanistan in 2011 and 12 .

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And then in 2016 and 17 , I was just

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recently back again . The Iraq mission

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was all tactical calms . We used all of

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our organic green box , if you will

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commercial our communications equipment .

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And then both of the rotations in

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Afghanistan was managing a lot of

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commercial network infrastructure at

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the theater level . So the entire

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Afghanistan , they are reaching out to

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bahrain Doha , back to europe , all the

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inbound tactical links , her commercial

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links that we had coming in . We were

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responsible for that , that entire

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architecture . Whereas in in Iraq , we

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had a very large network , but we

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didn't have the responsibility of the

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entire network . We had just a big

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slice of the greater network to manage .

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We had people there at log sites and we

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had extension nodes spread out all

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across the Baghdad area supporting

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elder Elsa's . We were at Camp Victory

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uh kim uh I can't remember the other

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camp were supporting special Forces , J

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CSC folks were spread out pretty well .

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We had units and Greenville , Lawrence ,

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Greenwood Belton at the time in

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Williamson and spread out all across

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the USa So it's pretty impactful to the

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upstate population due to the ability

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of the signal community to deploy small

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elements of personnel and equipment to

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meet the needs of the mission . The two

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to a theater . Tactical Signal Brigade

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has deployed time and time again .

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We've had individual

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company size elements or company minus

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sized elements mobilized and supported

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different units . We've had uh Signal

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units on the horn of Africa ,

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supporting special operations over

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there . And the significance as these

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units , they have no strategic organic

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calms that allowed that gives them to

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reach back capabilities that are unit

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has and continues to have and by

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by moving forward with those units were

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enabling them to do the mission that

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they're they're in country to do while

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giving them the ability to communicate

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and take that off of them internally ,

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so they have better Capabilities .

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Additionally , company B198

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Expeditionary Signal Battalion with the

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parent unit out of the Delaware

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National Guard , deployed approximately

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130 soldiers to Afghanistan in 2013

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providing satellite communications

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support as part of the theater network .

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In 2019 , approximately 100 soldiers

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were deployed to the Middle East and

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support of Operation Spartan Shield to

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provide communications support to

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deployed units . The capabilities of

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communication units may have changed

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throughout history , but the mission

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stays the same allows service members

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to communicate in order to support the

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mission In the past 20 years , the

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communication equipment of the two to a

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theatre tactical signal brigade has

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also improved and involved to keep up

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with the needs of the nation .

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Throughout history . Signal has been

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key to winning wars battles ,

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engagements at every echelon , whether

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it's a carrier pigeon or troops running

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back and forth from the front line to

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the rear to get , you know , commands

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or a commander riding horseback up and

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down the line , shouting commands to

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the troops to engage , not engage flank ,

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whatever whatever those commands are ,

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that's all , you know , the signal

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flags of old act even smoke signals at

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one time . Um , and now we do it with ,

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you know , digital transmission ,

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skipping across satellite center

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station thousands of miles above the

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earth and and sending it around the

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globe and just hopping across the the

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atmosphere . In some cases on HF . I

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don't believe we can win battles

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without it . Yeah , I remember if we're

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not communicating then then that

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soldier who's at the tip of the spirit

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is not getting beans and bullets or not

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calling back to the rear for fire

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support or any number of things that

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it's not just picking up the phone and

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calling home to talk to mom or dad .

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It's , it's the main point of

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communication is winning a war .

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Another element of the two to a theater

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tactical single brigade is the one 25th

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cyber protection Battalion . The

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purpose of the cyber battalion is to

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focus on network defense , protecting

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vital infrastructure , in defending

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against cyber attacks , hackers or

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other malicious actors . In March

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2018 , the one 25th cyber protection

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battalion mobilized 60 soldiers to

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deploy to the national capital region

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under a federal mission and support of

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the US army cyber command . The domains

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in which we fight . So you got air ,

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land and sea . Those are the typical

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first three domains , But over the past

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10 years we've also seen space become a

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new domain and cyber become a new

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domain . So in a multi domain

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operation , you want to bring all of

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those resources into the fight . So one

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of the things they stood up for the

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guard back in 17 was a cyber

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brigade . And then very quickly behind

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that south Carolina picked up a cyber

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protection battalion And that was back

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in 2017 that we stood up the

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first uh cyber protection battalion for

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South Carolina . So right now cyber

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being a new field for us to operate in .

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It's always been there . But the amount

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of effort that we collectively , the

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United States Army has put into that

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domain has increased . One of the

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things that the south Carolina Army

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National Guard had the opportunity to

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do is participate in task force . Echo

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Task Force . Echo was a top secret

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mission in fort meade Maryland where we

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supported the war fighter in

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Afghanistan with cyber capabilities .

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But we were doing really good things

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with the equipment and capabilities to

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positively impact the war fighter in

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Afghanistan . The to

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63rd Army Air and Missile Defense

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Command is the higher headquarters to

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the second battalion of the to 63rd Air

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Defense Artillery Regiment and the six

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78th Air Defense Artillery Brigade ,

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which is the parent unit of first

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battalion of the one 78th Field

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Artillery Regiment . The double A . M .

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D . C . Was stood up as a two star

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level command in 2000 and soon after

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was tested on their air defense

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capabilities and support of protecting

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the nation About 11 o'clock that day I

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got a call from the headquarters and

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they were wanting me and three others

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to report in on the day of 9 11 and we

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went down to Tyndall Air Force Base and

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built some of the first air defense

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plans . Uh And then shortly after that

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we came back , we were down there for

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about two weeks and built some of the

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first air defense plans for the

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Continental US and came back and then

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we mobilize the whole unit for another

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mission . Since then , the units under

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the to 63rd Army Air and Missile

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Defense Command have deployed numerous

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times in support of operations in

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response to the global war on terrorism ,

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including the mission and the national

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capital region and support of Operation

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Noble Eagle . We've took portions of

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our units and because of our our

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capabilities for architecture , we've

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deployed to portions of our unit to

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Afghanistan for the N . O E . F .

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Uh Several of our soldiers have

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deployed for that . We've taken

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portions of our unit and supported

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other mobilizations of other units .

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The missions was to protect the

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homeland uh and to be backfield for

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other theaters , both in centcom and

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you come for army air and missile

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defense . But the primary was to serve

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as a headquarters for north calm and

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NORAD to provide air defense , army

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level theatre level air defense for the

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homeland . And then we serve as an

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executive agent for force com for all

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the training readiness and oversight

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for all the units and the National

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Guard Air Defense units uh seven

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battalions , three brigade headquarters

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in the double A . NBC that deploy in

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support of Operation Noble Eagle . It's

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a huge responsibility and then

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establishing all the report with all

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the headquarters in all the different

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areas where we have soldiers deployed

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across the homeland from Tyndall Air

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Force Base to force come to our north

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Fort Sam Houston to NORAD at Peterson

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Air Force Base and then mobilizing ,

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going and actually performing the

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national capital region Integrated air

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defense mission . It's ever evolving .

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It's it's different sets of

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responsibilities but so Nor Ed has the

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responsibility for three regions for

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Canada , Alaska and the Continental US

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And within this NORAD area of

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operations in the area of

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responsibility . They have to maintain

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strict procedures around certain assets

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uh to prevent the easiest way to think

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of it is to prevent 9-11 from happening

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again . So from an air a ground

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and a maritime standpoint , they put

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the procedures in place to prevent a

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bad actor from being able to enter

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airspace and being able to do what we

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think back of and we reflect and look

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at 9 11 to prevent that from happening

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again . It's a surveillance aspect ,

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there's a warning aspect and if

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necessary , there's a kinetic aspect

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outside of the air defense assets of

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the to 63rd Army Air and missile

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defense command . There is also the

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famed first battalion of the one 78th

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field artillery station in Georgetown

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andrews and manning just as the double

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A . M . D . C . Was called to action

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shortly after the attacks on the nation .

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So was the field artillery for south

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Carolina . Immediately , what that

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meant was Operation Noble Eagle . You

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saw a lot of our National Guard

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soldiers being required to secure Air

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Force bases up and down the East Coast .

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So the unit I belong to at the time ,

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the first and one 78th Field Artillery

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started mobilizing our soldiers to go

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secure those air force bases outside of

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homeland defense support . The field

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artillery battalion was also called to

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serve overseas deploying to Iraq in

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2004 within 30 days of being notified

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of the mobilization , the soldiers were

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federalized to conduct training at Fort

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Dix New Jersey for approximately 40

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days before traveling to Kuwait and

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then pushing forward into Iraq to

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conduct a convoy security mission . Not

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long after uh 9 11 though . In that in

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that particular assignment , I was

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fortunate to be uh named as the uh

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commander of the 1st 1 78 and later

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took them to Iraq in response to

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Operation Iraqi freedom we deployed in

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an in in lieu of mission . We were

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basically reconfigured as a military

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police battalion . Uh so all of the

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structure that we were normally used to

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working within the artillery framework

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was realigned , Our units had to

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be broken up into more subsections .

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Two man . We had 100 and

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43 I believe Humvees that were

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in various degrees of uh up up armor

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when we got to kuwait to draw them from

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the camp hearing motor pool . It was an

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artillery unit but mobilized as an MP

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battalion . We would meet up with

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convoys at the kuwait border at a place

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called Camp North Star and we ran to

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two missions . We ran a daily

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sustainment mission where we escorted

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convoys up to camp cedar , which was at

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uh Talil in Iraq and then another unit

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would pick them up and carrying them

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into Baghdad , usually to L . S . A .

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And the conduct . And then we had

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another mission where we actually

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travel all throughout Iraq went to all

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the major cities , Mosul , Tikrit ,

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Fallujah and uh , those missions ,

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sometimes our soldiers will be gone as

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much as two weeks . So it was a varying

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type mission . Uh , the sustainment

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usually was a one day run up and you

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come back that same day . But uh ,

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Cowboy Security , We did that . I think

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we logged a little over 4.2 million

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miles and uh , had a little over 2000

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missions during our year deployment .

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The 59th Aviation troop Command of the

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south Carolina National Guard is home

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to numerous aviation capabilities ,

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including the A H 64 Apache , The U . H

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60 Black Hawk , the CH 47 Chinook ,

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the U . H seven to Lakota and the C 26

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cargo aircraft . Each of the airframe

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support unique mission sets to include

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close air support , cargo and personal

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transport and medical evacuations . The

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units that make up the 59th Aviation

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Troop Command include the 1st and 2nd

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battalions of the one 51st Aviation

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Regiment , the three 51st Aviation

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Support battalion , components of the

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first battalion of the 1/11 Aviation

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Regiment , Companies B&C . As well as

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attachments of companies D&E . of 2nd

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Battalion of the to 38th Aviation

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Regiment , detachments five Company B

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of the six 41st Aviation Regiment

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detachments 24 of the Operational

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Support Airlift Command and Detachment

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one Company B of the six 42nd Aviation

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Support Battalion due to the span of

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capabilities . The 59th Aviation Shoot

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Command has a robust history of

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deployments in support of the global

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war on terrorism . Some of the

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deployments include the first battalion

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of the one 51st Aviation Regiment ,

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Support of the january 2000 and five

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first free elections in Iraq's history ,

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providing security missions as well as

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their support as the U . S Army closed

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our operations in Iraq and handed over

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control to Iraqi authorities and

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support of Operation New Dawn . In 2011 ,

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the second Battalion , one 49th

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Aviation Regiment served as the

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commanding generals , Flight Company in

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Iraq in 2007 to 2000 and eight . The

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three 51st Aviation Support Battalion

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provided support in theater to the one

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85th theater Aviation Brigade With

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maintenance , fueling and logistics

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operations and support of Operation

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Spartan Shield . In 2015 , the second

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battalion of the to 38th Aviation

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Regiment and the first battalion of the

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one 51st Aviation Regiment , combined

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with other National Guard and active

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duty components in 2017 to become a

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task force that conducted aviation

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operations in Southern Afghanistan with

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a H 64 apaches , UH- 60 black

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hawks , ch 47 chinooks and medevac

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assets . While a component of the

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second Battalion of the To 38th

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Aviation Regiment conducted

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distinguished Visitors , transportation

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in Northern Afghanistan . In 2018 . The

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company B of 2nd Battalion of the 6

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41st Aviation Regiment deployed to

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Afghanistan to provide personnel and

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cargo transportation assistance

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throughout the operational area . And

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in 2019 , companies see of 2nd

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Battalion of the to 38th Aviation

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Regiment , medical evacuation deployed

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to the Middle East in support of

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Operation Freedom Sentinel to provide

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medical evacuation assets . The area of

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operation Doing so IF three we were

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responsible for U . C . D .

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Taxi . It was , it was a combination

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DVs , we deplore them . Um

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One of the more distinct ones is that I

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was a part of directly . Uh We were

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responsible for taking the entourage

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for getting the court order to zoom

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the bodies for Saddam Hussein's trial ,

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one of the few entities In conjunction

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with that we were part of the support

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measures , seeing some of the first of

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the 50 cows that come in country and

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disseminated those out to the troops

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that were needed throughout the country .

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Um , we got to see the whole country

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from to live all the way up to Mizzou

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and that's from the top to the bottom

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and and everything in between . We got

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a chance to fly delegates to look at

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how we're gonna , what this particular

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infrastructure is gonna mean today

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tomorrow And lay out those plans . Even

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though we weren't part of planning

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process , we response for getting there ,

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getting there on time , uh , meeting

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that objective . But the average crew

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members about 400 hours and that was a

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lot of flight time for 18 months of

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deployment . Aviation deployments and

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the missions they completed were

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intense and important throughout the

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past 20 years and tied the south

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Carolina National Guard two pieces of

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history . These deployments allowed the

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south Carolina National Guard to

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protect ground troops , transport

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service members and civilians to

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accomplish their missions and in some

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instances save lives with medevac

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capabilities . No , only the patron

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mission is direct support or indirect

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support . Um , They can be like an on

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call element where they can respond to

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a threat that's been identified or they

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have direct convoy support that that

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Apache helicopter links up with that

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convoy unit as it imparts the secure

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area and that's its responsibility to

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understand maintain a safe and secure

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travel throughout that l until this

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handover to it , another unit or it

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stages to the area until they're able

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to link up at a different time . And

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chinook is very diverse . Uh Airframe

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you can understand when , when back in

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the early 2000 , the ship was almost

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taken out of operation , but it came to

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be the most proficient airframe because

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of the altitude . So guess what special

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uses everybody uses for transport ,

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troop transport , secret missions ,

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whatever those guys have engaged in

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every aspect of the mission , not just

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lifting and shifting . They have been

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involved with a lot of strategic moves .

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I'm talking about dynamic moves as far

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as getting folks on target on time ,

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research on target on time . So the

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chinook , the Blackhawk , understand

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all can operate with those environments ,

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but the chinook is very dynamic and has

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separated itself . If we got the right

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stuff , the right equipment , the right

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people to fix it , we can employ

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anywhere and guess what ? We can do

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just about anything