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- Today, the battalion
has been in quarantine

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or a restriction of movement here,

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aboard Robertson Barracks
since we arrived on June 16th.

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So today's June 30th

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and we're moving out.

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(soldier mumbles)

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- [Soldier] Yeah, we're good.

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- [Lt. Col. John F] We've
got about another hour

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before we actually are able to depart

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to our final resting place,

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if you will over the next
three and a half months

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for the duration of the deployment.

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So when we got here on June 16th,

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we got here early in the morning,

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we met on the airfield

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and so as part of our agreement,

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Australian Defense Forces
here are hosting us.

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We had a two week quarantine

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that we knew we were gonna
have to enter upon arrival.

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- As they depart the plane,

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come through here,

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where they'll get tested.

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So as they maintain the
six feet social distancing,

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they'll come through

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and they'll get a throat and nose swab

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to test for COVID

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before they go into quarantine.

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- [Lt. Col. John F] So we did
the initial baggage check,

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we did all the agricultural
inspections that we needed to,

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got all of our gear squared away,

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got married back with our gear

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and then made the trip from
the airfield here in Darwin

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to here in Robinson Barracks,

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and then at that point we
started our 14-days of quarantine

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and we've been doing that ever since.

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- So prior to being
released from quarantine

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about three or four days,

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all the Marines and sailors are
retested with the same test.

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- All right.

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Get the nose.

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(mumbles) Look at that.

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There we go.

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- [Doctor] To ensure that they're negative

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and if they're negative

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at the end of their 14-day quarantine,

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then they are released to
continue with their duties.

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- [Lt. Col. John F] We
relied heavily on the support

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from the Wave One Marines

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that also did their two week quarantine

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to help enable us get through
with our two weeks as well,

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and so the next wave that comes behind us,

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they'll be relying on us to
be able to help them as well.

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Oh, and they'll spend a good quarantine.

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- The Austrian would
still allow us to come in,

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which I think was great on their part

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and we were able

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to properly come in, bunker down

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and make sure none of us have it

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and we were able to keep training.

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I think it speaks volumes for
the relationship that we have.

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Any time we do some kind of
huge integrated training event,

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you know where it is,

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a force on force type thing,

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or it's our military
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working alongside of another military,

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it's going to open up your
perspectives along all sides.

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We knew a year ago

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that we were going to deploy to Australia,

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(plane chuffing)

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so the things that we've
been doing back in California

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had been focusing on small
unit level tactics, techniques,

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and procedures

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to prepare us for combat,

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to prepare us for worldwide deployment.

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(soldiers speaking)

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(gun shots firing)
(dramatic action music)

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(gun shots firing)

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(plane chaffing)

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And so in January and February,

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we were in ITX

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and we did a lot of force-on-force work

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we did some combined arms breaching,

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where we were able to work
with multiple different units,

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drop units, tank units, tanker (mumbles),

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and we got to do a lot of shoot building,

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a lot of digging in the defense

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and I know outside of ITX,

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we had a chance to just
do a lot of spot patrols,

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land sweeping, line coverages.

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and it's good time.

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- We are expected to
be sprinting as a unit

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alongside the Australians

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and they expect the same of us.

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and as to the opportunity that (mumbles)

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allows us to be able to
do a combined training

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at the platoon, at the company
and the battalion level

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is truly unique.

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I think what my initial
indication with both of our staffs

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have revealed

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that there's a lot of things
that we do very similarly.

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There's some things
that are very different.

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I don't think that you
will get this opportunity

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(soldiers cheering)
to work through those issues

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on a combined environment

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without coming to a place like that.