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One lesson I hope we can pull away from

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training is for every marine to

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understand . We sing the song of being

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able to fight in any climb and place on

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land and air and sea . But if

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you don't physically go and train to

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those environments . Your skills

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are going to a trade over time and so

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coming to the jungle . It is a

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necessary part of being a marine and

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being able to effectively operate in

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arduous terrain in the jungle for days

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at a time . That is how you validate

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your skills . Not just talking about

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how we could fight , talking about how

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we can actually effectively fight in

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whatever operations it may be .

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We train to fight in the cold . We

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trained to fight in the heat . We

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trained to fight in the jungle . But

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you're not going to know how well you

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can do those things unless you go there

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and physically experience it yourself .

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We had a round robin training set up ,

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so Casivac lane , uh , survival lane ,

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jungle communication . Then we

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ended with a 24 hour patrolling

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exercise where we went to the jungle .

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We had rappeling off a high wall ,

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tasty rappeling . I'd say overall

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highest fidelity moment was probably

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just running through the course . I

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think it's a perfect mix of technical ,

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tactical , and , uh , at the same time

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just like a uh just a hard course .

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Right here at the jungle exercise as

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part of our unit deployment program ,

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being a part of the UDP means that we

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need to be prepared to respond to any

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event that happens in the Indopecom

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region . The jungle exercise is

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how we maintain our preparedness .

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Right What's that ?