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Can you please tell me your rank name ,

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squadron and duty title ? I'm staff

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Sergeant , Tristan Grigsby . I work

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with the 1 39th maintenance crew and I

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come from ST Joe Missouri .

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Um , so you traveled all the way here

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from Missouri ,

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coming from Alaska . It was like eight

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hours and then getting into Shama ,

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Alaska , that was probably another six

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hours . And then we had issues getting

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off the ground with the weather once we

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got off the ground , made it early in

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the morning and then got here and

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probably was another seven hours . I

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love Japan . I've always wanted to come

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here , knocked it right off my bucket

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list . So , yeah ,

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what are some of the challenges you

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guys have kind of faced while arriving

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and conducting this exercise ? Well ,

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coming here , we didn't really know the

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lay of the land and then working with

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the other units . We're always good at

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it , but communication was a little

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rough , but we're overcoming that by

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working real strong together ,

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everything comes out with quality and

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it's been great .

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Have you done any other exercises ?

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Yeah , I went to Germany and did the

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Iron Mission . The Global Response

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about a year ago today actually . So

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always going around . It's been a great

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mission . How does this ? Well , that

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exercise is pretty big but nothing on

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this scale for sure . But definitely

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always flying , moving around

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constantly and then the schedule has

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been hectic . So always being ready and

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we haven't failed yet . Why

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is it important to do these big

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exercise readiness every bit ? We

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never know it's coming in the future .

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So the future is un telling . So I

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would say we're ready for whatever is

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going to come , but it always helps us

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be better .