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You . Have you done the training ?

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My name is Brandon Bush . I'm a Navy

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diver first class , currently the

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liaison officer deployed from Mobile

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Diving Salvage Unit One Pearl Harbor ,

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Hawaii .

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Yeah .

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So the overall purpose of Salbex for us

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is to strengthen our alliances between

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the Republic of Korea , Australia , and

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us , the US .

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I feel like Korea was the perfect place

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to hold this exercise because of the

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not only the temperature like the

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climate but also the currents and the

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visibility in the water that's probably

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about as extreme as you can get so

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being able to do the exercise there I

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feel like made us even more prepared

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for future tasking or whatever may come

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up .

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Being able to like understand our

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allies like their capabilities and how

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they do business so we're all on the

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same page in the event of these real

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world emergencies that we're talking

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about it's really what makes exercises

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like Salvac so important just being

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able to develop these common universal

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signals underwater and being able to

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interact with these guys and just being

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working together as a team really it

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really helps out in the event of

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something actually happening .

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Just teaching them how we rig things up ,

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that's what a good takeaway that they

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had from this exercise and then they

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also showed us like their capabilities

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they have various cranes and other

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things that they use and and just being

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able to be there and see the equipment

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that they have and the capabilities

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that they have was , uh , it's gonna be

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super helpful in the future . What

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Exercises like this are important

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because we need to build confidence in

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our equipment but more importantly we

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need to build confidence in each other .

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I think my favorite part about this

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exercise was being able to build the

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relations with uh foreign relations

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with our counterparts here in Korea and

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Australia . It's really great to start

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building that friendship and

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understanding each other's procedures

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and uh how each of the different

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partner nations conduct diving . So if

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or when we have to do diving with them

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in the future , it'll be seamless . So

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I'm hoping that the Australians and

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Koreans they were able to take away

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more confidence and comfort not only in

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us but with each other and knowing that

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we are ready and able to respond to any

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diving and salvage emergency quickly

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and effectively as a team together and

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I think because of exercises like this

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they're able to have that confidence in

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us and each other and they're

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comfortable working with us now that

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it's gonna be a seamless transition

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when we get together and and have to do

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real world salvage . I