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- [Jim] Airmen from Sumpter Smith

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Air National Guard Base traveled

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to Gulfport Combat Readiness
Training Center in Mississippi

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for back-to-back exercises.

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A small team spent the first week

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responding to a simulated crisis.

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They prepared, traveled and worked

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the same way they would
for a real emergency.

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- It's pretty cutting-edge,

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but some of our visionaries
in our community kinda see

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that this might be the way
things are headed for us

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being mobile teams that take our tankers

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kind of in a more expeditionary
fashion on the road,

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whether domestic or international.

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- [Jim] The following week was the

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117th Air Refueling
Wing's Exercise Vulcan,

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a training exercise that combined

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Air Force-wide requirements
with job specific training.

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We went along with security forces

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for a live fire exercise.

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- It give us an idea
to see where we are at,

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and see the things that
we need to work on,

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and see our weakest points
and our stronger points.

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My favorite part of
the whole thing is the,

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just seeing the guys work together.

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The communication, you know?

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Like, some of these guys,

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we only together one
weekend out the month,

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and that's a lot of stuff

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that's crammed into those guys

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to be able to learn
that and to pick it up.

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You can see a difference outta guys

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when they can come out and have fun

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doing the things that you know,

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we've been trained to do.

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- [Jim] Reporting from
Gulfport, Mississippi,

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I'm Staff Sergeant Jim Bentley.

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