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- Today, we do a static observation training.

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Then, walking visual indicator training today.

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It was nice today.

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^We did with the MAF, Mongolian Armed Forces.

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They did very well.

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I did working with two Mongolians

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and one Japanese and three Americans,

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especially they were really experts about the IED,

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so I could learn a lot from them.

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- It's the counter-IED training lane.

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The intent is to help our partner nations

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that are participating in its peacekeeping operation

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to give them the building blocks

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^to develop their own TTPs for handling explosive hazards,

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^whether that's explosive remnants of war,

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^unexploded ordnance, minefields,

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or improvised explosive devices.

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I think my favorite part is watching the students progress

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throughout the day, taking lessons that the unit taught them

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and applying them on the practical lanes,

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and when they come up after the class,

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and tell us the things that they didn't know before,

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and things that they've seen when they've been

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on peacekeeping missions before.