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Good afternoon . I am Lieutenant Zeke

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Schaefer , I am the officer in charge

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of detachment Lejeune coming from

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gulfport Mississippi for N . M . C . B

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one

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Della june and the A PSB are

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participating in the summer Pioneer

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exercise 2022 . So getting after some

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expeditionary , advanced based

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operations of contingency work .

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So having the marines here has been

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great . We're able to use them with all

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of our projects that we have tasked .

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So we're able to , we're able to

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provide those extra hands and were able

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to pound hammers quicker and get more

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projects done quicker and faster . So

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it's been great to have them help us

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out

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the importance of summer pioneers .

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It's a qualifying exercise for not only

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um the eighth E S . B , it's also for

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NMC one . So here we're getting

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evaluated by um higher echelons to make

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sure we're capable of going out the

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door and performing contingency

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operations around the world . So uh

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just one of those steps in moving

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forward to make sure we're ready to

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deploy later on in the future .

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So having the sailors and the marines

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work together has been huge . It's

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showing that we're all the same people ,

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we can work together as well as getting

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after it . Um we all are working

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towards one mission . So integrating

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together and showing that

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interoperability has been huge ,

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working on with the sailors and marines

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putting them together .

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So the biggest challenge for us in the

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exercise has probably been logistics .

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It's hard when you've got a lot of

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moving parts going here there and

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everywhere , There's a lot of different

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training areas we're using . So just

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making sure those logistics are taken

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care of on the front end and the back

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and to make sure the exercises its

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success .