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On the surface , it looks like a quiet

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morning on the lake . But just beneath

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that calm , soldiers are training for

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one of the most critical missions in

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the military , getting an entire force

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across water . We're the 401

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Engineering Company . We are a

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multi-role bridging operation . So

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right now we're just , uh , training

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all of our new people and our NCOs who

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haven't gotten to do this in a really

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long time , and we basically make

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bridges that float on water anytime we

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need people to get from one side of the

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water to the . Next we can create a

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raft , um , and that raft we can beach

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up and vehicles , tanks , Humvees , etc .

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can drive up on there and we can

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unbeach them with our boats and take

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them across or depending on if it's

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like a river we can actually go from

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end to end building the bridge until it

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connects to the other side from a

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single crossing to moving an entire

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force this capability scales fast . You

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can , you can do a build and .

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Between 5 and 10 minutes I mean it's

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pretty quick getting all this equipment

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that hits the water they open up and

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then we get our boats immediately in

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there we have our crews they're well

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trained at this point it's just , you

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know . Um , step after step , you know ,

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um , muscle memory at that point , and

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so it's really cool to see how fast

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they can do basically this little

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Tetris act with the with the bridges ,

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get it in there , beach it , and when a

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plan comes together , I mean , moving

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them across . And it's made possible

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through partnership with the US Army

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Corps of Engineers . Working with the

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Corps of Engineers has been amazing . I

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mean , we're all part of the engineer

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regiment . And so when reservists that

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are in the engineering regiment get to

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work with full-time UAS personnel ,

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it's great . Like the UAS personnel has

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been amazing to work with . UAS has a

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whole bunch of resources like this park ,

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this lake , getting a reserve unit on

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there to basically train on it and

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partner with UAS has been fantastic for

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the US Army Corps of Engineers , Fort

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Worth District . I'm Audrey Gossett .