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I'm second Lieutenant Maggie Fitzgerald ,

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I'm the 7/16 maintenance platoon leader

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with bravo Company 87 D . S . S . B .

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We are at a company level field

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exercise with also a 7/16 maintenance

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platoon and we are in preparation for

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the NTC rotation 23-5 coming up in

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february . The company just redeployed

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in november , so it's our first time

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getting everybody back out , working on

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some basic soldier skills as well as

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freshening up on our maintenance

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capabilities and just Q . R . F and

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security in order to help the battalion

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with their base defense posture when

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we're out at NtC . I think it's

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important , especially for our company .

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We have , my platoon is a brand new

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capability that's been added to our

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company to our battalion , to the

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division really . And so this is like I

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said , the first time since the

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company's deployment in our new

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establishment that we're getting

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together . So actually having those

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reps and making sure that we get some

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real experience out at NtC with real

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situations that we could face when

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we're deployed in all these different

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potential circumstances , getting some

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cohesion between all the different

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sections since we all have different um

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things that we work on , but we all

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work together under a maintenance

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company I think is important for that

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cohesion and actual effective mission .

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So this training that we're doing out

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here is beneficial to both NTC and

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future deployments because it enables

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soldiers to better understand their

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surroundings and the equipment that

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they're gonna be using out there a lot

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of training and planning that goes into

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it , making sure that soldiers are

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coming out here are getting licensed on

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the vehicles are required to roll out ,

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making sure that our equipment is

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loaded onto all of the trucks and uh

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everything's serviceable and fully

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mission capable . Everybody has a plan

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of action , Everybody's tracking what

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they're supposed to be doing , and it

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just makes everything run a lot , whole

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lot smoother .