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- [Air Force Personnel 1] It's been a lot of fun.

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It's been a lot of learning.

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- [Air Force Personnel 2] The entire Mobility Guardian

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exercise was designed to be crawl, walk, run.

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- At the beginning, we didn't really know what to expect,

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but towards the end, our crews

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were working really well together.

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- This is a rare opportunity.

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To see a dynamic and challenging environment like that

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with very specific timing goals and objectives

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is a great opportunity for us.

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- [Air Force Personnel 1] It was a simulation of

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a low-level ingress to a hostile area.

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And then ingressing through a range

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with a lot of air-to-air threats to get to an airfield

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where our troops have already established the airfield,

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but it's a threat environment getting there.

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- [Air Force Personnel 2] Pacing with other aircraft

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and adding in dissimilar aircraft. That type of thing.

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And then you move that into a night, or NVG environment,

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then you further challenge the crew members.

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- We get a lot of opportunities to practice

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bits and pieces of it, but not put it all together

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and have air-to-air assets as well.

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Friendlies as well as enemies,

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as well as working with ground coordination cells

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to put the whole package together to see how it works.

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- There are emerging threats out there in the world

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that we all are aware of today.

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And I think this was a great eye-opener

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to show what may be potentially asked of us

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in the more near-term than you might expect.