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- I think just the opportunity

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to do a project of this scale was huge.

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Now the Ie Shima Training Facility is home

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to a newly-resurfaced expeditionary runway

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capable of supporting a Marine Corps

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and joint fixed-wing aviation,

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and it's also home to a
division-sized landing zone

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and an amphibious landing deck
where F35s and helicopters

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can simulate expeditionary
amphibious operations.

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(engine roars)

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This venue provides a
realistic training venue

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for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations

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for the aviation community,

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but specifically for first small units.

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This type of training is critical

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to the lethality of Marine Corps aviators

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and joint aviators, also
to the sustainment mission

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of Marine Corps aviation and
preparing three-met forces

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for fighting a near-peer adversary

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in the Indo-Pacific
area of responsibility.