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- Russia breaking international law,
turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East,
the refugee and migration crisis,
international terrorism, hybrid warfare,
and cyber attacks.
^These are pressing challenges
^requiring unity and resolve
and a strong transatlantic bond.
- All right, let's go, let's go.
- [Jens Stoltenberg] NATO is united.
We stand together as one
- Right there.
- [Jens Stoltenberg] And an attack
on one ally
will be considered
an attack against us all.
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- If you look at USCUECOM
and what they're doing
they're integral.
If you look at just the exercise
^and training that they've been doing.
^The change in tasks.
^The complexity of those tasks.
The distances of the moves they've made
and some of the exercises in the Baltics
remaining in Bulgaria.
Those are all good examples
of wanted change in mindset,
a change in tasks that we have to do,
and a change in the way that we
go about our training.
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- Prepare for combat
means fighting like it's combat.
This kind of training
and this challenges and stress
that we've placed on the soldiers here
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^This is as hard as we can make it.
^You know, our guys haven't slept well,
they haven't eaten well.
They're out in hundred degree temperatures
and they come out and they performed
every single day.
^- Be it the US flag
^or any of the ally partners,
we're gonna be overhead
providing attack helicopters,
cargo utility lifts, med-evac.
Our job is to be there
and train right along with them.
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- The National Guard
and US Army Reserve
are essential for US Army Europe.
^They've trained in Europe with our NATO allies
and other partners.
They build readiness, deter aggression,
and prove uninterruptible.
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- The participation of
US Army Reserve soldiers
and US National Guard soldiers
in our exercises
is absolutely critical
^because that's how we fight.
^It's all about the total army
and their unique capabilities that are essential
to US Army Europe being successful
in the performance of its mission.
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- We have to work with our allies every day.
The year of integration
^is the year where we really want to exploit
this to take a huge step forward in the
corporation integration with our NATO allies.
- [Soldier] All right, go, go, go, hit the house.
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- We'll start moving
into four other countries
^where we'll begin either our training
^to sustain our readiness
or training with our allied partners.
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- I think we're gonna experience more training
and that ability to really show our allies
that we're here
^because it creates alliance.
^It's reassuring that hey, we got their backs.
^They have our backs.
^- We are integrated.
^We are integrated in every exercise
that we participate in.
This live fire exercise is no different.
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- It is critically important
^that our junior leaders be able to work
with our allies and our partners.
To practice our trade, to excel beyond
what they consider to be their capabilities
because we challenge them at every turn
to be leaders.
- In every exercise we do,
^we want to make sure that we're doing all we can
^to bring in the joint and multinational team
to build as much radius as possible.
To leave no doubt that this alliance
is here to deter any potential adversary.
^- You know, I'm only a private
^and I get to do a lot of stuff
^that some people who are more higher ranking
than me have never done before.
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