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I see uh wires diverging . This is the

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Marine Corps bomb squad . It's

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officially known as E O or

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explosive ordinance disposal . This

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exclusive faction of the Marine Corps

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is made up of less than 800 technicians

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and out of over the 200,000 marines

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today , only the top 1% are even

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eligible to attempt to join .

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As the Marine Corps faces new

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challenges . It finds new ways to fight

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like E A B OS . At a second , we are

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about to see is an experiment to

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operate in one of the most hostile

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environments on the planet here in the

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Chapel of Misery , the jungle water

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food training center , an

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unwelcoming unforgiving contested arena

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where species of all kinds fight for

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their survival , an environment that's

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truly made for marines .

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In order to understand why we're out in

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the jungle , we have to understand the

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future of Marine Corps Warfare Force

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design , specifically expeditionary

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advanced base operations . E A B O

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basically E A B O is to divide and

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conquer . Instead of establishing a

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central space , we scatter and operate

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in smaller more mobile units from a

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series of austere temporary locations

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while maintaining a low signature

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within a contested maritime area . In

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order to conduct sea denial support ,

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sea control or enable fleet sustainment .

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Being able to survive off very little

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supplies and move at a moment's notice

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if discovered that brings us here .

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Uh My name is Staff Sergeant Michael

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Siegel . I'm an explosive ordinance

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disposal technician with Third O D

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company , ninth Engineer Sport

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battalion . The one below it looks like

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it's smooth on the top of a red band .

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So for us , jungle crab , we're coming

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out here , we're advancing our actual E

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O D skills as well as our survival

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skills as a whole and trying to merge

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the two together

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on a regular basis . We train in pretty

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fair weather out here . We start

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getting into the more extreme elements

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and see how people work under pressure .

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Yes , in situations like this out in

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the jungle . Uh We're anticipating

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having like limited logistics and how

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we would operate . Say if we have

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certain things are interrupted in our

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usual way of operation . Uh If we can

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still operate , given those challenges

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going forward , marines have to be

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ready at all times to fight at a

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moment's notice to fight . Now in a new

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era of fighting with new frontiers , we

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find new ways of facing new threats .