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So the , the first major benefit that I

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could tell you is I have two soldiers

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in my formation that have been in the

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Guard for over 30 years . And they say

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this is by far the coolest thing they

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have ever gotten to do . The , the ,

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the the mission is great . The location

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just going to the Philippines on its

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own is awesome . And all of my soldiers

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have been able to go out there and get

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to see things that they would have

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never gotten to see had they not joined

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the National Guard . The second thing

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is training . So we're training with

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the Filipino Armed Forces , the Navy ,

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the Air Force , the Marines have come

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out here and looked over our equipment .

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They have talked about our capabilities

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and discussions and also discuss some

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of the capabilities of the equipment

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that they're on with our soldiers . And

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they've been fascinated by that ,

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getting to find out what other , the

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host nation is supporting us , what

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they use when it comes to air defense

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and found out that a lot of the

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language is common . The second benefit

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is getting to work with other people ,

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other members of our armed forces , the

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marines and the active duty

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counterparts that we have over here and

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the Patriot batteries and the High Mars

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batteries that are here on our L S A .

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Um , so getting to do all that , get to

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see cool things and also this is our A

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T period . So we're getting to train .

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So we're having a very useful A T

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period out here . We're on our L S A 24

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7 . So it's training 24 7 . There's not

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a lot of knocking it off and going back

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to the home station . Yeah . Yes . So

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the live fire that we're going to be

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doing out here , one of them is the

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common live fire that we do at our

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annual training period . So we're going

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to be engaging aerial targets with the

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M three P 50 cow on our Avient weapon

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system here . We're going to certify

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the 12 crews of my battery just like we

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normally would at a period . The main

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difference is , is one the location and

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two , we're going to be firing off

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actual stinger missiles . So we rarely

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get the opportunity to fire off live

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stingers outside of operational

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deployments and getting ready to deploy

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to some of the missions that we get to

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do as the air defense . Um The ,

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the time that my soldiers have had

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putting on the static displays for the

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Filipino military and for the marines

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and other units that are walking around

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in this L S A . You could see their

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faces light up when they're briefing

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the Filipino armed forces that have

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come and played around on the Avenger

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when we have had the Filipino army

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majors sit down in the turret in the

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gun tub there , take pictures , hand

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out patches . We had some of them here

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that were handing out reward mugs for

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who gave the best brief to see the

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faces and to hear them in the tents

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after everybody leaves talk about what

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a great time they had . That's probably

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the most rewarding thing . And hearing

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them say that they will never get to

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see anything like this again in their

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lives is just great .