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North Wind 25 is a bilateral exercise

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with the Japanese ground self-defense

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forces . We're here to establish

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working relationships the way we work

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together , the way we plan together ,

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the way we fight together , and how we

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can both better ourselves for future

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operations . Exercises like these allow

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us to have face to face communication

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with our partners to ensure that we can

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meet new challenges but also ensure

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that we can work together to overcome

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obstacles . On that question I could

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just talk about the training portion of

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it . uh , something that I personally

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got out of it was just the overall

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experience and intellectual training .

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So I got the opportunity to work with

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my counterparts uh in the JGSDF staff

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section and you know they have numbers

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of years of experience and you know

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just a very smart group and they work

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extremely hard so seeing how they do

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things it's teaching me another way how

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to get the job done so I'm grateful for

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all of that .