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- [Soldier] Get back.
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- [Patrick Voiceover] So TRAP is the
Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel.
Essentially we're a forward-postured force
who's ready to go down and respond to
any isolated personnel or any aircraft
that goes down within our AO.
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- My name is Sergeant Patrick Clancy,
the Assistant TRAP Force Commander for
2/7 Fox Company, 4th Platoon.
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- Upon notification
there's an isolated personnel or downed aircraft,
the information will, it'll come down.
^We'll get notified by the JPRC.
^And they'll message us out here at the flight line
^letting us know that there is an in flight emergency
^or possible situation that we might have to respond to.
- [Patrick Voiceover] First thing we're gonna do
is alert the TRAP Force.
They're going to be grabbing all their ammo and gear
necessary for the mission.
The Assistant TRAP Force Commander, myself,
will come out and we'll brief Jack's Isoprep information
if we have it at that time.
And lastly we'll load onto the Osprey.
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- You have to know you'll hitch him.
Because it's that pilot's life on the line.
And if he is shot down or incurs an in flight emergency,
I'm supremely confident in Fox Company and 4th Platoon's
ability to conduct a TRAP mission.
We've been doing it for the past year.
We've been running rehearsals,
running TRAP Exes, TRAP As.
And so I'm supremely confident in our ability
to execute a TRAP.
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