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- Trooper, watch the left,
watch the left, watch the left.

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- Lightning Forge is a brigade
level training exercise

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that is helping us build a foundation

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for our successful rotation
of JRTC in October.

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Given the opportunity to do this,

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it's stressing our system,

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it's forcing us to think about things

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that we haven't had the
opportunity to for a while.

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And through this entire experience here,

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we're becoming so much better.

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I feel without this
experience at Lightning Forge,

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we would not be postured to be nearly

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as successful at JRTC.

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But because of the division's investment

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in this training event,

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we will be increasingly better

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coming out of Lightning Forge

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so that when we arrive, we will be ready

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to hunt and destroy a drone.

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- Clarks, fire.
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- Suppress your fire, suppress your fire!

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- I can't tell you how proud I am

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of this entire brigade combat team.

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The men and women of the Warrior Brigade

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have shown phenomenal strength and grit.

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One of the things that we are trying

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to build on at Lightning Forge
is to build winning teams.

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And in my mind, a winning team

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is a company troop and battery

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who is ready and capable and is lethal

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to crush the enemy on any
battlefield that we face.

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Every day, the Warrior sole
group comes to the field

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with a positive attitude,
he or she gives 110%.

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They learn from the things
that they participated

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in the day before, and
they'd do their very best

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to improve on those the next day.

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