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across our scene with the Dutch today .

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It was part of our exercise . It was a

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little nerve-wracking at first because

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I've never done something like this

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before , but it was definitely a great

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experience because not only did it show

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like our capabilities as like the

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United States Air Force , but it also

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shows how as NATO we're just as one

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like this one giant force together and

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that's something really humbling and

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very great to be a part of . So the

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whole process whenever it comes to

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launching the aircraft out we greet the

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pilot we do our walk arounds making

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sure everything is good to go and then

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they do their thing up there to go

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execute whatever mission they task for

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that day and off they go .

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That goes very well , yeah , we have

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the same procedures , so it's almost

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the same . It's a little bit different

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and it's always good to learn from each

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other . I think as we continue to

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develop our concepts of ACE , it's

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really , really important for us to be

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able to cross service either our planes

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with Dutch or any of our NATO partners

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to their planes and our maintainers and

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being able to do that and execute it on

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a smaller scale here , I think it just

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reinforces that and reinforces the

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teamwork that we're able to do . It is

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really hard to turn over our aircraft ,

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uh , something that we work on , uh ,

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day in day out , you know , that's our

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life , but yeah , we've done lots of

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cross service events with our NATO

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partners and we have full trust in them

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to do that really proud moment to watch

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them , uh , execute and do their job

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and do it really , really well .