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Thousands of sailors and Marines have

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been working to restore basic quality

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of life resources to the people of the

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Philippines . Marines , the first

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Marine Expeditionary Force provided

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relief . Typhoon Jalawat is the 18th

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named storm of the 2012 Pacific Typhoon .

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has transported more than 1200 relief

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workers into hard hit Tacloban and have

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airlifted nearly 4900 survivors out .

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More than 4000 people died during

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what's being called the world's most

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powerful typhoon . You don't get a lot

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of warning when there's a disaster ,

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and when we respond , we have to

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respond quickly .

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Finex was the final exercise of the

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Muse pre-deployment training program ,

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and it was a certification event with

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the Department of State Representatives

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to allow us to go forward for future

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operations and certify in humanitarian

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assistance and disaster relief efforts .

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When we designed the final exercise for

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the mu , we took into consideration

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some recent experience that we had in

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October of 2024 when the 15thm was for

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deployed to the Indo-Pacific .

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During the Finex we employed a

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humanitarian assistance support team .

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We took approximately 5 personnel of

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logistics backgrounds and

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communications backgrounds , and we put

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them forward out into the field to to

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demonstrate that we can conduct the

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movement , delivery and then

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communicate back the mission

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accomplishment to a command post of

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critical supplies in a scenario like

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this . The 15thm is primarily a

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crisis response element for the Marine

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Corps . So when we talk about competing

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in the global climate and we talk about

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potential mission sets that the new

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might experience , being able to

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respond and provide assistance to a

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devastated community or country is

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critical . And if we don't take the

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training seriously , we aren't setting

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ourselves up for success when the time

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comes to actually execute a real

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mission .