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Oh .

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My team is here at Lodges Field

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partnering with the sixty-fifth Air

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Base Group and Portuguese forces to

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secure the Transatlantic Bridge in the

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Great Power conflict . Lodges is

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located halfway between Washington DC

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and Lisbon . It's the Bucky's of the

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Atlantic . It's a NATO allied training

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ground , a divert airfield , and highly

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corrosive , degraded environment . It's

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a perfect place for engineers to train

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on the building and repair of

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infrastructure . How do we get after

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that ? It's the deployment for Training

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Program , or DFT . This DFT enables our

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engineers to form strategic

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partnerships and to build

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infrastructure around the world . It

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simply makes us ready , and readiness

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is the key to our national defense

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strategy . Here

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our airmen hone their expertise and

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reinforce the skills required to meet

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the demands of an ever changing global

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theater . We brought airmen who

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specialize in power production , heavy

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equipment operations , water and fuel

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systems maintenance , electrical

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structures , and HVAC . With these

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skill sets , we are able to train with

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professionalism meets adversity . The

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island itself introduces the challenges

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of inclement and unpredictable weather ,

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supply deficiencies , and saltwater

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corrosion . We train in these

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conditions to show our commitment to

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continuous improvement . I am

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normally trained in emergency

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management . Um , I'm an emergency

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management specialist , so here at

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Lodges Field I have been training as ,

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um , structures . I've been learning ,

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uh , structure skills , learning to

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become a multi-capable airman . Um ,

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it's been , it's been great . It's

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skills I can take to the outside .

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I am water and fuel system maintenance .

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We are having to install the water

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lines to the sink and the drain lines

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out of the building . I have some

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experience , but this is a lot more

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hands on . This is definitely exceeded

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my expectations . I knew what I was

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signing up for , but just working with

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so many different cultures and

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different jobs , different people ,

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different materials , just it , it ,

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it's been amazing .

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I know that we've met the intent of

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this exercise because my team is

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already crushing it . We mobilized

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halfway around the world on a C-17 ,

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repaired a base in the middle of the

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ocean , and strengthened partnerships ,

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and frankly showed that we're at the

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apex of readiness .