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- So, we had a package of
an AWAC, F-35s, some A-10s,

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3 C-17s

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from bases all over the country.

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So, we had

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McGuire, Dover and Travis C-17s.

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What we're willing to do
is go into a contested

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environment and basically
practice having an air escort

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on the way to an objective
and have an objective.

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Only maybe once, twice a
year you have exercises that

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are focused on the C-17, tryin
to ingress to an objective.

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And, not only that, but
two sorties at home.

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It's just us,

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just a single ship and
everything else is pretend.

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And out here, with the
support of the AWACs,

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support of the F-35s and the A-10s,

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we're able to practice in a
real simulated environment

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as to what it might actually
be like if we have to

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ingress to an objective.

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This is not necessarily

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for the war that we're fighting today,

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but it might be for the war
that we're fighting tomorrow.

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And if we get the call - and
honestly anybody in a C-17

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community can get the call
any day of the week - that

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they're alerted and going
into a near pure environment.

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So this preps us for that.

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So the coordination between
us and the guys at Luke,

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and the guys at Davis-Monthan.

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When we actually go to
the fight, that we're

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talking the same language
is critically important.

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