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So the humanitarian assistance response

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training disaster course is critical

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for 3MF because we are in an

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environment and a location where

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disasters can strike at any time , but

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what that HART D course prepares us for

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is to respond in an extremely efficient

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manner anywhere in the AO .

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So hard training gives Marines the

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tools to know kind of who's who in the

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zoo for humanitarian-led situations .

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Since we're not the main person doing

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the operation , we rely a lot on the

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State Department or in the Philippines'

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case , the Office of Civil Defense ,

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and they're the ones that kind of lay

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the ground rules for what they need

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done and when . So knowing who to talk

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to for what resources is really

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important , and heart training did a

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good job of saying what civilian

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organization is responsible for what ,

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whether it's , you know , host nation ,

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United Nations , Department of State ,

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for example . And what was interesting

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is when we went forward into the

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Philippines , it was like we had

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already seen this before , so those

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evolutions were critical to enable us

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as key members of the staff to help

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advise the State Department as we

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liaised with the Office of Civil

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Defense to determine what need was

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required by the host country and how we

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could provide that need . So in this

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case we had 7 C-130s , we had 4

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V-22s and 3 H60s along with critical

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enablers , and we were able to provide

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10,000 family food packs to the Vira

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airport in a very timely manner to

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support the need of the host nation

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when they were urgently requesting

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those critical supplies . So if we get

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a short notice tasker like this one for

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example in the Philippines from mission

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receipt to actually execution was 12

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hours or 10 hours or less for some

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people because we had the training we

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had the tools to go do the thing

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without having to rely on getting

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training or getting spun up before we

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went out there we kind of knew what we

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were getting into because of the

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training . And it also makes sense to

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get Marines to the heart training that

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are part of 3 meth because you don't

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know when it's going to happen and

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given the nature of where we are ,

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whether it's the earthquakes , tsunami

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type situations , having the deep bench

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of people who know what they're doing

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again goes back to knowing the tools to

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go to execute the mission on a short

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notice .