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my

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name is Sergeant first class Rod

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Symington . I'm the S . Three Future

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ops and current Ops planner . I was the

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lead mission planner for Gwoza Bar re

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brave warrior spirit , the Mustang

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challenge XML event . The exercise

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overall was away for fourth JCs to go

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ahead and look at its J metal , compare

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what we actually would do in a combat

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situation and then look at ways that we

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could actually push the envelope into

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higher guidance with denied environment .

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Um also looking at changing from

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asymmetric Warfare , which was

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Afghanistan to force on force warfare ,

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looking at a bigger scope and picture

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um a variety of different ways

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inserting by different platforms

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pushing the level with early entry

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communications um and getting some of

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the key soldier tasked with medical

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training , weapons firing etcetera to

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make sure that our soldiers are ready

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at a moment's notice to deploy anywhere

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in the world .

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Yeah .

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Um we came to this environment

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primarily because this closely mimics

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what we see as our most likely

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potential future conflict um with the

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way the terrain is the way the

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vegetation is , the level of heat and

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humidity fits perfectly into what some

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of these environments could potentially

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look like . It allows the soldiers to

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go ahead and get a feel for what it

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would be like and then how they may be

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able to adjust instead of going in

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somewhere cold and not really having a

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good understanding of the environment

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that maybe

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mm hmm mm hmm .

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Ultimately we made this so unique was

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the planning it took to even get here .

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The co ordinations for the different

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pieces working in a multinational joint

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task force type headquarters

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environment while also pushing into a

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field environment . You won't ever see

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something like this , rarely in the

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army with that level of execution ,

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especially not in the reserve . So this

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is really it a game changing event . It

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shows that it can be accomplished . It

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allows us to really get a full view of

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not only our operational soldiers but

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even our planning processes and allows

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us to be ready for a future deployment

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on a large scale

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conflict .