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Joint biking is a perfect opportunity

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for us to actually conduct Arctic

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operations here with the suboptimal

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temperatures and conditions we're able

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to see the terrain that we'll actually

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operate in in the Arctic Circle , as

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well as drive around in snow , ice

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conditions , and operate in the

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suboptimal temperatures . I'm Captain

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Boquatch . I'm the batter commander of

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Charlie Battery 16 Field Artillery

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Regiment . Our mission here is to

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deploy exhibition deployed to the

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Arctic Circle in support of the

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Norwegian Army as part of the Joint

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Viking exercise . So the MAC 270 Alpha

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2s are the brand new launchers . They

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can shoot the new PRSM rounds so they

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can have the extended capability far

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beyond . What we previously had our

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long range precision fires it shapes

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the battlefield because we can reach

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and extend beyond what our partner

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nations can . We can shape the deep

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fight essentially . The joint Viking

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allows us the opportunity to embed with

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our Norwegian partners . The JFSC

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has less experience with long range

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precision fires , and we can bring that

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to the fight . So our battalion has

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been able to embed . Our staff with

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their joint fire support element and

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learn how do we employ our long range

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precision fires here , especially in

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the conditions that are provided in the

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terrain that we can operate in the

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Arctic Circle , very different from

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what terrain we're used to in Grafton

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Beer or elsewhere in the states . So

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this opportunity to work hand in hand

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and actually go out into this terrain

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has been a blessing .