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I am Technical Sergeant Ron Dawkins . I

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am a EOD team leader here at the Spang

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on EOD flight . So the IED Rodeo is a

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training exercise where we invite a

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bunch of our NATO partners to come down

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and we basically run them through a

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full range of IED type scenarios . We

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have a really fun one with a water

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cooler and that's all I'm gonna say

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about that one .

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One of the 52nd Fighter wings mission

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areas is partnership and I think the

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Royo truly gets after what partnership

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is all about all these nations coming

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together for a training exercise . Like

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this is very important for

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interoperability for the future . We

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already have a leg up because we

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already know how to work with our ed

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brothers and sisters from these partner

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nations . My favorite is seeing how the

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other countries work because just the

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way they go about it and their

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equipment , the capability of their

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equipment is so different from ours .

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It's just awesome to see how they go

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about it and their team dynamics is a

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little bit different too . It just

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seeing them operate and do their thing .

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It's , it's eye opening for me , this

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is partnership , this is what it's all

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about .