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83 this year is a joint and bilateral

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command post exercise . It is the

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largest si PX in Japan and it's Gsdf

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premier end of year . The

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biggest thing that we get out of . Yama

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Sakura is really that interoperability

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between U . S . And Japanese forces and

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how we work together and how our staff

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processes work , how our technical

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processes work and how our human

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processes work in the future . We want

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to start including more of our

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multinational partners as part of the

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exercise to just continue the expansion .

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Yama Sakura 83 is the closest that

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we've come into a more normal uh Yama

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Sakura that was experienced . So it's

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good to finally see everyone actually

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physically on ground able to work

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together and able to actually

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physically be with each other and with

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their Japanese counterparts as opposed

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to being over virtual

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ground staff office

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designs not only exercise Yama Sakura

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83 but also all of Japan , us

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bilateral and multilateral exercises .

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The Ground Staff office is responsible

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for that . I personally believe there

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is one critical thing , we operational

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Headquarters mainly conducts staff

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activities and have two elements .

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One is training and realistic

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scenarios and the other is training in

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these scenarios , adding future

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elements which go a little bit far from

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realism . I believe we need to practice

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and challenge both and be ready to

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respond for current situations and

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future situations