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Fights on . That was the first thing I

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thought of and kind of this

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overwhelming and market trust ,

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certainly in the members of the 42nd at

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the engineering complex . But to be

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honest with you also those that live

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and serve on the installation . Well ,

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what went through my mind when the

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power went out is what exactly is

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Maxwell Air Force Base gonna do ? What

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is the response force going to do ?

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What is the fire department gonna do ?

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What are our mission partners gonna do ?

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We need Wi Fi , we need internet . Now

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we have to go back to the base of power .

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We going to ensure that all the

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buildings are protected on this

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insulation and how we're going to meet

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the commander's intent on this wings

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mission as we were setting ourselves up .

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I said , guys , remember don't fight

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the exercise , we're solving problems ,

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things have gone very smooth . A couple

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of things we've learned . So fueling

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operations and how all of that gets set

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up and rolling was a big discussion

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that gets to be a very big job ,

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quickly exercise , rehearsal or Real

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world . We really turned the power off .

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There were some critical nodes that

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certainly were disrupted . I can tell

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you there's a massive tranche

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environment and we're working through

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it and figuring it out . It's been

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pretty awesome , great learning

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experience . I think that many of our

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challenges were quickly overcome . In

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fact , things got very quiet after

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about an hour and a half and missions

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continued on . I think the success

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story was the ability to take this real

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world event to really reveal to us .

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Number one , what it is that we thought

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we could do and then what it is that we

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know we need to do better air force ,

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civil engineers ready for anything ,

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anytime , anywhere .