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Exercise cartwheel began as a very low

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level of exercise five years ago in

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2019 . Now today it has blossomed into

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a complex multilateral multinational

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event ranging from repelling the live

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fire exercise among many nations . This

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exercise called art reinforces bonds ,

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literally forced over 82 years ago in

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World War Two ,

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building relations and proficiency with

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other nations . So we're standing right

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now , we just completed a combined arms

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live fire breach with the French

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Infantry and an engineer squad from

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Switzerland engine company . What we're

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doing is we're just conducting

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exercises with the other nations

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developing TTP S relationships and

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rehearsing movements to and from

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locations like Fiji . What makes us

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successful is being able to establish

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that rapport with the other NCOS and

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officers that are out executing these

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lanes from the American engineer unit

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here , the Republic of Fiji military

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force and the French and the

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Australians in establishing that common

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operating picture of how we do things .

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And fortunately with Western countries

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and then the Fijians working with us

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and the training they've gotten from

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the Australians on the base level .

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It's kind of the same and universal .

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So we can still talk the same language

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when it comes to war fighting . We

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don't have any training in Fiji based

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on repelling . We don't have any

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schools that teach us repelling . This

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is most of us . It's the first time we

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learn from them , they learn from us

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and it's a combination . We need

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experts in these austere environments

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that we don't operate in a day to day

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basis . Us as National Guard soldiers .

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We have uh desert and uh forests and

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snow , not as much a jungle or rainy

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environment , but it really will take

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the locals and those foreign militaries

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who are experts in those environments

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and those cultures to be able to lend a

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hand to the US and say this is how you

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do it . This is how you're gonna here .

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This is a stepping stone that as we

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know there's there's possible threats

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in the Pacific and this is crucial to

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continue to build and strengthen

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relationships for possible threats in

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the future . And not only that just we

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now know from this exercise how to get

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troops , equipment and explosives from

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Reno Nevada to Nadi Fiji . So those are

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all huge strategic plans for the Nevada

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National Guard .