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Artillery is becoming more and more

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relevant right now . It's back to being

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the king of battle . You can see with

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things that are going on overseas with

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our adversaries how important artillery

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is , and we've got to be able to get

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there and stay above par . It is

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absolutely vital to conduct air assault

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and air insertion operations in the

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field artillery and in the army . It's

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one of our There are ways that we move

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around on the battlefield and we've got

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to practice it because when the time

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comes , you don't want to be a novice

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at it . For all of us , I think we

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actually got to learn how important it

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is to really actually load into the AO

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as we did , loading up as fast as we

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can , just slowest , smooth , smoothest ,

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fast operations like that . The mission

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was to get us used to being able to fly

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into AOs , maybe if it's a heavy

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contact area where maybe we're taking

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gunfire we need to get in and have them

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quickly get out rather than pulling up

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in Humvees or just having the shinoks

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or Black Hawks land on . The ground

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quickly get us in so they can quickly

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get out . I think it's key to

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continuing to work with the aviation

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units here in Oklahoma . The 45th

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Infantry Brigade combat Team is a light

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infantry brigade combat team . We are a

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light field artillery unit . Uh , one

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of our goals and one of our medals ,

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task is to conduct air assault

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operations , including sling loading

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our amateurs , equipment , personnel ,

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and , and gear that we need to to move

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forward on the battlefield to put

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ourselves in position to to take out

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targets that the brigade commander

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needs .