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- Rally in the Valley was
gonna be a small flying event

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in conjunction with the
Senior Leadership Seminar SLS

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that was supposed to happen
up in Youngstown this year.

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Originally the plan was

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that everybody would go to Youngstown

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and we would stand up the
planning cell out of Youngstown,

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and we'd brief just like we normally do

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for an exercise like this

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and everyone's right there

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and we can answer all the questions.

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So distributed ops has now forced us away

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from each other, thanks to COVID.

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The challenge is that

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I won't see the people up at Mansfield.

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I've been working

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through teams meetings or Zoom
or telephone calls or e-mail

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trying to set everything up

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with people I've never met before

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and they're all on the ground at Mansfield

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getting ready to join in on our Zoom call

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and that kind of thing.

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It was challenging enough
just to put it all together

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and get ready to bring
everybody up to Youngstown

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and then 11 days ago,

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for General Healy made the
right call, the safe call

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to put us into distributed operations.

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(metal music)

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And so we gonna go out, we
gonna do some air drops,

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we gonna infill some
special operations team

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again in scenario but
we'll actually be dropping

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high-altitude, personnel
air drop to simulate that

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and then we'll be
resupplying a task force.

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Some things are gonna happen

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that are gonna kind of drive

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some trash within the planning cell

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but it's also gonna drive some thrash

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with the air crew as well.

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They're gonna have to think on their feet.

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- [Man] This looks good

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(inaudible)

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- COVID has kind of sidelined

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a large portion of the country

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to include for a while
our military itself.

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As reservists, we have to
stay sharp at what we do

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regardless of the conditions

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that are going on in the country

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because, the country still depends on us

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to be able to do our job.

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