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- [Male Narrator] Saber Strike 17 featuring over

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11,000 participants from 20 different countries,

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transitions from in-stream offloading to pier offloading

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as they improve their readiness.

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- The task force has been on deck for about ten days now,

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we've been working with the 46th Land Battalion here

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^providing all our support as we conduct the offload

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^of the USNS Button.

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Currently, we're looking forward to move forward

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in the next couple days to conduct a field exercise,

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where we'll integrate our infantry enablers, our artillery,

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tanks, and light-armored vehicles.

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So we're looking forward to get to training with

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the land brigade up in Attojade.

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So that we can share (yell) and learn

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eachother's techniques and procedures and we can

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sweat together and learn together.

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This year's exercise demonstrates our ability as a

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Marine Corp, demonstrates our flexibility in responsiveness

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to deploy and support our crisis or contingency

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as we integrate our maritime preposition shipping.

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So conducting maritime preposition force operations

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in support of the geographical combat commander's exercise

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priorities, allow us to prepare for future operations.

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This is a combination of active duty forces

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and Marine Reserve forces.

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This exercise on a Marine Reserve forces demonstrates our

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ability to be ready, relevant and responsive.

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We're learning a great deal out here as we've just

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completed the off-load of equipment and now we're doing

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really what we call the arrival and assembly operations.

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Assembling the personnel and equipment and pushing them

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forward and really projecting that combat power.

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So there's no doubt in my mind if we were to deploy today,

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in response to a crisis or a contingency operation,

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the Marine Reserve forces that are currently training here,

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would succeed in those conditions.

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- [Male Narrator] Reporting from Vince Fields Latvia,

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I'm Corporal Devin Barnett.