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Test train 1Q75 sits above the arches of Chancel Street, on a warm August Monday lunchtime, waiting for platform 4 at Blackfriars to become vacant. 73 962 'Dick Mabbutt' leads the four coach formation, with sister locomotive 73 961 'Alison' on the rear.
"After"
The finished image just pops now. The sky color was pumped up and the blacks were also made deeper.
Girl dropouts are a major problem fighting poverty in Malawi, as giving girls and women a better position and better education remains maybe the best way of all to bring change and a better future to Malawi.
At Matunduzi school we saw how the IM-funded project GESI addressed one of the causes of girl dropouts - girls falling behind in their studies due to problems doing their homework due to all the tasks they are asked to do at home.
At Matundizi school, and dozens of similar school, new reading techniques have been introduced and teachers educated in new pedagogical skills.
The reading class seen on these photos were engaging and active to the extreme... Not the least I loved seeing how much space the girls demanded, they were not rated below boys and not discriminated.
Having trained on different reading techniques by GESI, teachers at the school have used the methods to supplement primary school curriculum. One STD 2 teacher introduced supplementary readers from old curriculum books to enhance a reading culture. Through such, most pupils in Standard 2 have acquired Chichewa (Malawis majority language) reading mastery. A rare occurrence in primary schools rocked by myriad challenges.
Meanwhile, on a regular basis, mother groups, that are also getting support and organizational advice from GESI, meets with girls at the school to discuss issues for their retention and achievement. ‘We feel obliged to support our girls so that they should not experience the difficulties we have now due to lack of education.”
Mother group members raise funds for need girls, they give advice and they visit parents who withdraw their girls from schools.
Girls Education Support Initiative (GESI), is funded by IM and run by Malawian NGO Creccom. GESI is an integrated approach to address challenges facing girl children through community mobilization including meeting girls’ post-primary education cost.
The complexities are enormous and intertwine poverty and male dominated culture and put restraints on girls’ education.
IM and Creccom has pledged to promote girls education and fight these constraints.
Photo and copyright: Erik Törner, IM Individuell Människohjälp www.manniskohjalp.se
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Seen on the M4 in Newport.
This truck carries the counter weights etc for the Liebherr Crane that passed earlier.
Main body of Task Force Kitgum moves into Life Support Area Fist
By Spc. Jason Nolte
KITGUM, Uganda – Weeks of hard work have come to a head for the advanced and torch parties for Natural Fire 10 as the main body moved from Entebbe to Kitgum and into the new home on Life Support Area (LSA) Fist on Pajimo Barracks.
The heat of the day was broken by a strong breeze as the first group arrived by CH-47 Chinooks. They quickly carried the baggage to waiting cargo handlers, then loaded onto separate buses for transportation to the reception point.
The joint forces assigned to Task Force Kitgum as part of Combined Joint Task Force Lion were met at the reception point by 1st Sgt. Devika Hull, Task Force S-1 from the 560th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade.
“Accountability,” Hull explains the reason everyone had to sign in, “Makes sure everyone is where they’re supposed to be.”
After signing in, the incoming troops were given a brief on the rules of the LSA by Cpt. Ramlakhan, Command, 5th Quartermaster Company, who had previously helped guide the helicopters in. Once oriented, the incoming troops were shown to their new berths in the surrounding tents.
“It went well,” Hull says, “21st TSC (Theater Sustainment Command) had a well laid out plan. Capt. Ramlakhan met them at the flight line and stayed with them the whole time.”
Lt. Col. Michael Cortez, Commander, 21st TSC Special Troops Battalion explains the roll of the 21st TSC, “We were responsible, both in Entebbe with the HRSC-E (Human Resources Sustainment Center – Europe) and here with the 5th Quartermaster, for Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, and Integration of hundreds of soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen.”
Later in the evening, after darkness had fallen in rural Uganda, a line of buses rolled up the dirt roads leading to the LSA, bringing the second group of troops in for the day. Filling up the tents and filling up the Task Force in order to complete its mission.
Natural Fire 10 is a routine, scheduled training exercise which offers an opportunity for East African Community Partner Nations and the US military to work together on a humanitarian assistance mission. Working together all parties will learn from each other to increase regional capabilities to respond to complex humanitarian emergencies.
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091015-A-1211N-115 Troops from Task Force Kitgum unload their baggage from a CH-47 Chinook, Kitgum, Uganda, Oct. 15, 2009. (US Army photo by Spc. Jason Nolte)
091015-A-1211N-122 Troops from Task Force Kitgum unload their baggage from a CH-47 Chinook, Kitgum, Uganda, Oct. 15, 2009. (US Army photo by Spc. Jason Nolte)
The bars here are what the spring mounts to. The smaller metal one keeps the plastic heelspring from folding under the leg of the wearer
Dark Beauty Maleficent has been fully deboxed. She is posed standing, supported by a Kaiser doll stand. I had her arms outstretched, to mimic her classic pose in the original animated feature Sleeping Beauty. Photographed in daylight, with flash used in the first two photos.
Review of Dark Beauty Maleficent Doll
Dark Beauty Maleficent is a very good likeness to character portrayed by Angelina Jolie. She looks more human and more vulnerable than the Royal Coronation Maleficent doll, even though they share the same head mold. Some of the differences that contribute to this look is the brighter shade of red in her lips, her thinner upper lip, her slightly smaller irises, her headdress that covers her ears and much of her forehead, and the absence of the raven in her headdress. Also, she has lost her wings. She still looks evil, but has a bit of sadness in her expression, rather than the steely determination of the Coronation Maleficent. I think she is more beautiful, and I prefer her face, and the doll itself, over the Coronation Maleficent. She also has the big advantage of being half the price.
She has a single piece black gown, black boots, and permanent horned headdress. Her headdress is now a hood, and completely covers the top and back of her head. The horns' tips are no longer golden. She no longer has any visible hair. She is wearing a floor length shear knit dress with very wide sleeves that look like wings when extended out with outstretched arms. There is thin stripping of iridescent glitter, that tends to shed a lot. With flash lighting, the multicolored glitter is bit too gaudy. I prefer the more subtle gold glitter on the Coronation Maleficent's dress. The glitter makes her dress rather stiff, which helps it keep its shape. There is a tear shaped faux diamond sewn to the top of the bodice. There is a two layered black plastic collar that are like rudimentary wings on her shoulders.
Her black knee high boots are made rubbery plastic, with slits in the back and high heels. She has a black cloth choker on her neck that is removable. She has black painted on underwear that resembles a strapless single piece bathing suit. She has the same body construction as the other Jakks female dolls in this series. She has stiff legs, but ball jointed neck, hips, shoulders and elbows. Her hands are bent back in a Princess pose, and her feet are angled to wear high heels.
Packaging and Deboxing
Deboxing the Dark Beauty Maleficent Doll by Tollytots/Jakks Pacific. In order to remove the front plastic cover from the box, it was necessary to almost tear the back of the box apart, as the two layers of the backing were taped (with double sided sticky tape) and glued shut. The tabs of the plastic cover were also taped and glued to the inside of the backing. The box would need a lot of tape to put it back together securely, so it the doll placed inside for safe keeping. And the tearing apart of the backing of course creased and weakened the cardboard. There was less glue than on the Beloved Aurora doll's box, but I still had to rip the backing apart.
Maleficent is secured to the backing and plastic spacers with plastic T-tab fasteners. Behind her is a printed background from the movie, which is common to all the dolls in this series.
It was easy to remove her from the backing. Because of the plastic headdress on her head, there was no T-tab fastener in her head securing her to the backing. Instead, there were plastic fasteners around her horns and neck. There was also fasteners in her clothing, around her hands and boots. All of them were removed without difficulty, and without having to remove the plastic spacers.
Purchase Details
I just received the four available Jakks Pacific dolls from the Maleficent movie in single doll packages. I ordered them from Toys R Us on Friday night (5/2/2014) and got them Tuesday (5/6/2014), with free shipping. I appreciated the quick shipping, compared to the Disney Store. The dolls are the following, with links to the TRU site. All the dolls are 12'' H. The Coronation dolls are $39.95 each, the other two are $19.95.
Full flavoured and distinctive, which is what you'd expect from a single hop brew. Would I buy it again? probably not, when I want an ultra hoppy beer there are some others higher up on the list.
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This seems to be a week where I'm dusting off some older shots and working on them.
This is a view of the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, which I took in the evening sunlight a couple of years ago.
Here you see it in its Neoclassical period, but a few years ago it dabbled with Modern Art. ;-)
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you can see how the mother push the calf to the surface . . . unfortunately a little bit murky water
This is a poster created to promote the sale of some Hexagonal Origami Gift Boxes in support of the survivors of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
(The best quality version of this image is here.)
The poster / flyer is intended to be square - like origami paper. A version of this image with borders and crop marks - to help in cutting any paper print to the correct shape - can be found here.
You can see views of all 20 boxes individually for sale in a set here.
You can plunge into the eBay auctions here.
If you enjoy shopping in support of the Japanese Red Cross Society, you might also like Tomodachi Calling, a cafepress web store / shop (recommend by a fellow flickrer schmid91, who helped document the aftermath of the tsunami in Ishinomaki Myagi prefecture).
Child of holocaust survivors at Demonstration in support of Gaza in Toronto, march from Queens Park to the US consulate © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com July 26, 2014
International Day of Al-Quds - Several thousand supporters of Palestinians (estimates range from 5,000- 10,000), with a small counter demonstration of a few hundred supporters of Zionist Israel.
Gaza myths and facts: what American Jewish leaders won't tell you.
Myth: Gaza is free. Fact: it has been under Israeli occupation since 1967 to this very day.
By Peter Beinart Jul. 30, 2014
www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.608008
The zionists and JDL do not speak for all Jewish people.
Jewish Canadians Concerned about Suppression of Criticism of Israel
This statement was rejected by both the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail (as an op-ed). Please help this important statement get into broad circulation - pass it on to your networks (faculty, community, MPs, university presidents, unions etc.). You may also wish to write to the Star and Globe and express your dismay that they have chosen not to publish it.
Over 150 Jewish Canadians signed a statement expressing their concerns about the campaign to suppress criticism of Israel that is being carried on within Canada. The signatories include many prominent Canadians, including Ursula Franklin O.C., Anton Kuerti O.C., Naomi Klein, Dr. Gabor Mate, and professors Meyer Brownstone (recipient of Pearson Peace Medal), Natalie Zemon Davis, Michael Neumann, and Judy Rebick. *
The signatories are particularly concerned that unfounded accusations of anti-Semitism deflect attention from Israel’s accountability for what many have called war crimes in Gaza. They state that B’nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress have led campaigns to silence criticism of Israel on university campuses, in labor unions and in other groups. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff unquestioningly echo the views of these particular Jewish organizations.
They strongly state that they are against all expressions of racism. While firmly committed to resisting any form of prejudice against Jewish people, their statement explicitly states that these spurious allegations of anti-Semitism bring the anti-Communist terror of the 1950s vividly to mind.
The statement underlines the immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people due to the severe poverty, daily humiliations, and military invasions inflicted by the State of Israel.
James Deutsch, M.D., Ph.D.
Judith Deutsch, M.S.W., R.S.W.
Miriam Garfinkle, M.D.
Statement: Jewish Canadians Concerned about Suppression of Criticism of Israel
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
We are appalled by recent attempts of prominent Jewish organizations and leading Canadian politicians to silence protest against the State of Israel. We are alarmed by the escalation of fear tactics. Charges that those organizing Israel Apartheid Week or supporting an academic boycott of Israel are anti-Semites promoting hatred bring the anti-Communist terror of the 1950s vividly to mind. We believe this serves to deflect attention from Israel’s flagrant violations of international humanitarian law.
B’nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress have pressured university presidents and administrations to silence debate and discussion specifically regarding Palestine/Israel. In a full-page ad in a national newspaper, B’nai Brith urged donors to withhold funds from universities because "anti-Semitic hate fests" were being allowed on campuses. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff have echoed these arguments. While university administrators have resisted demands to shut down Israel Apartheid week, some Ontario university presidents have bowed to this disinformation campaign by suspending and fining students, confiscating posters, and infringing on free speech.
We do not believe that Israel acts in self-defense. Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid, receiving $3 million/day. It has the fourth strongest army in the world. Before the invasion of Gaza on 27 December 2008, Israel’s siege had already created a humanitarian catastrophe there,
with severe impoverishment, malnutrition, and destroyed infrastructure. It is crucial that forums for discussion of Israel’s accountability to the international community for what many have called war crimes be allowed to proceed unrestricted by specious claims of anti-Semitism.
We recognize that anti-Semitism is a reality in Canada as elsewhere, and we are fully committed to resisting any act of hatred against Jews. At the same time, we condemn false charges of anti-Semitism against student organizations, unions, and other groups and people exercising their
democratic right to freedom of speech and association regarding legitimate criticism of the State of Israel.
Signatories:
Abigail Bakan, Adam Balsam, Sharon Baltman, Julia Barnett, Lainie Basman, Jody Berland, Sam Blatt, Geri Blinik, Anita Block, Elizabeth Block, Sheila Block, Hannah Briemberg, Mark Brill, Stephen Brot, Meyer Brownstone, Eliza Burroughs, Smadar Carmon, Gyda Chud, Charles P. Cohen, Nathalie Cohen, David Copeland, Natalie Zemon Davis, Eliza Deutsch, James Deutsch, Judith Deutsch, Abbe Edelson, Jack Etkin, Elle Flanders, Danielle Frank, Ursula Franklin, Dan Freeman-Maloy, Miriam Garfinkle, Alisa Gayle, Jack Gegenberg, Mark Golden, Brenda Goldstein, Sue Goldstein, Cy Gonick, Marnina Gonick, Rachel Gotthilf, Amy Gottleib, Kevin A. Gould, Daina Green, Lisa Frances Greenspoon, Ricardo Grinspun, Cathy Gulkin, Rachel Gurofsky, Deboran Guterman, Yesse Gutman, Freda Guttman, Judy Haiven, Michael Hanna-Fein, Jean Hanson, Jan Heynen, Maria Heynen, Adam Hofmann, Jake Javanshir, Jeannie Kamins, Marylin Kanee, Howard S. Kaplan, Gilda Katz. Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta, Mira Khazzam, Bonnie Sher Klein, Mark Klein, Martin Klein, Naomi Klein, Joshua Katz-Rosene, Ryan Katz-Rosene, Judy Koch, Anton Kuerti, Jason Kunin, Aaron Lakoff, Michael Lambek, Natalie LaRoche, Richard Borshay Lee, Andy Lehrer, Gabriel Levin, Gabriel Levine, Joel Lexchin, Kim Linekin, Abby Lippman, Lee Lorch, Martin Lukacs, Audrey Macklin, Elise Maltin, Richard Marcuse, Wayne Mark, Gabor Mate, Arthur Milner, Anna Miransky, Dorit Naaman, Joanne Naiman, Neil Naiman, Michael Neumann, David-Marc Newman, David Noble, Clare O’Connor, Robin Ostow, Andre W. Payant, Jenny Peto, Simone Powell, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Fabienne Presentey, Yacov Rabkin, Diana Ralph, Naomi Rankin, Judy Rebick, Ester Reiter, Jillian Rogin, Richard Roman, Joseph Rosen, Herman Rosenfeld, Martha Roth, Marty Roth, Ruben Roth, E.Natalie Rothman, B. Sack, Ben Saifer, Miriam Sampaio, Jacob Scheir, Fred Schloessinger, Alan Sears, Shlomit Segal, Edward H. Shaffer, Noa Shaindlinger, Ray Shankman, Eva Sharell, Elliot Shek, Sid Shniad, Max Silverman, Samuel Singer, Elizabeth Solloway, Susan Starkman, Greg Starr, Jonathan Sterne, Jeremy Stolow, Rhonda Sussman, Vera Szoke, Joe Tannenbaum, Howard Tessler, Marion Traub-Werner, Ceyda Turan, Sandra Tychsen, Cheryl Wagner, Jon McPhedran Waitzer, David Wall, Naomi Binder Wall, Kathy Wazana, Karen Weisberg, Barry Weisleder, Paul Weinberg, Judith Weisman, Suzanne Weiss, Abraham Weizfeld, Ernie Yacub, B.H. Yael, Yedida Zalik, Melvin Zimmerman
"Pit Stop: Crewmen of a CH-46D Sea Knight helicopter from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 263 [HMM-263] refuel their chopper at An Hoa, between resupply missions in support of nearby 1st Marine Division fire support bases (official USMC photo by Corporal Ed Willis)."
From the Jonathan Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections.
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
Supporting Government Schools in Karnataka by Elliott Group
Goal 6 & 7 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals : Safe Drinking Water and Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
Sustainable Development Goals CSR Initiative in Karnataka, India, implemented by www.trinitycarefoundation.com/csr/ for marginalized sections of the society.
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Designer: Workers Congress of "East is Red" Agricultural Machinery Plant of Shenyang City (collective work) (沈阳市东方红农业机械厂工代会供稿)
ca. 1969-1970
Support agriculture energetically
Dali zhiyuan nongye (大力支援农业)
Publisher: Revolutionary Committee of the Cultural Section of the Revolutionary Committee of Shenyang City (沈阳市革命委员会文化局革委会)
Call number: BG E13/833 (Landsberger collection)
See: chineseposters.net/themes/cultural-revolution-campaigns
Arabic (العربية al-ʻarabīyah or عربي/عربى ʻarabī ) ( [al ʕarabijja] (help·info) or ( [ʕarabi] (help·info)) is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD. This includes both the literary language and the spoken Arabic varieties.
The literary language is called Modern Standard Arabic or Literary Arabic. It is currently the only official form of Arabic, used in most written documents as well as in formal spoken occasions, such as lectures and news broadcasts. In 1912, Moroccan Arabic was official in Morocco for some time, before Morocco joined the Arab League.
More photos of Toronto Fire Services' vehicles at the 2009 St. Patrick's Day parade.
Support 7 truck.
I'm afraid Toronto's fire engines are quite aged and the city government is too poor to replace the fleet.
Army Sgt. 1st Class Chris Richey, a medic with the Army Reserve’s 399th Combat Support Hospital, observes Malawi Defense Force medics during a field training exercise testing their combat lifesaver skills as part of Medreach 11 in Lilongwe, Malawi, May 12, 2011.
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jesse Houk
Army Sgt. 1st Class Chris Richey knows a lot about battlefield medicine. With three deployments -- one to Kosovo and two to Iraq -- and more than 400 combat convoy missions under his belt, he’s learned a thing or two about combat casualty care.
During his most recent deployment, as part of the troop surge in Iraq from 2007 to 2008, he shared what he’s learned as a military transition team advisor to Iraqi security force medics.
So when Richey, a training noncommissioned officer with the Army Reserve’s 399th Combat Support Hospital, arrived here to train Malawian defense forces during Medreach 11, the Malawi soldiers were all ears.
“It gave me a lot of credibility,” Richey said as he sat alongside his students preparing for a field training exercise that would put some of the lessons imparted during the past 10 days to the test.
Medreach 11 is a U.S. Army Africa-run exercise designed to enhance U.S. and Malawian military medical capabilities and enhance the two militaries’ ability to work together during a humanitarian emergency or other crisis.
In addition to humanitarian and civic assistance outreach projects, a major emphasis during the exercise was on training: in the classroom, in training lanes and ultimately, during a field training exercise.
The Malawians shared with their American counterparts insights into how they identify and treat tropical diseases and HIV, and were anxious to hear about a variety of U.S. treatment techniques. But what they most wanted to tap into was the wealth of experience the U.S. military has developed over the past decade in providing combat medicine and trauma care. It’s of particular interest now that Malawi has deployed a battalion of about 850 soldiers to support a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Ivory Coast.
The U.S. military has learned many lessons about field medicine during the past 10 years of war, particularly the importance of combat lifesavers who provide that first critical “golden hour” care to wounded troops, Col. Marcus De Oliveira, U.S. Army Africa chief of staff, said.
In addition to incorporating these lessons into its own operations, the U.S. military shares them with partners, such as Malawi, that may need to draw on them during peacekeeping or other operations, he said.
Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Alfred Chitsa Banda, director of the Malawi Defense Force’s medical service, said he hopes to develop combat lifesaver expertise among his own troops based on the U.S. example. So in support of that request, medical teams from the 399th Combat Support Hospital conducted a variety of instruction during Medreach 11, much of it focusing on combat lifesaver instruction.
The 399th instructors applied the “crawl, walk, run” approach to the training, explained Army Sgt. 1st Class Joleen Millette, the 399th’s NCO in charge of plans and operations. Classroom instruction advanced to hands-on practical exercises, as the Malawian medics practiced triaging casualties and moving them -- with a litter, if one was available, and if not, using a belt, sling or fellow soldier to help.
Lanes training culminated the training, with a litter-carry course set up on an obstacle course at the Kamuzu Barracks complex. The Malawian medics carried casualties through five different stations on the course, taking turns so each soldier got to lead the team.
“We made it stressful for them, but I think they loved it, from what they told us,” Millette said. “And we loved doing it, too. The way I see this, we’re paying it forward, teaching them what we have learned from our own experience.”
Millette said the unit’s combat deployments brought credibility and value to the training. “We have been there,” she said, citing her own deployment to Contingency Operating Base Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq, from June 2006 to October 2007. “We have touched it and we have seen it and we have been there.”
Yesterday’s field-training exercise put the Malawian troops’ skills to the test in a realistic combat scenario. As a convoy advanced down the roadway, the second vehicle was hit by a simulated improvised explosive device, followed by an ambush. The troops quickly dismounted to suppress the ambush, then established security as soldiers exercised their new combat lifesaver skills on the casualties.
The “casualties” were moulaged to reflect their wounds. One soldier was “killed” during the attack. One suffered a gunshot wound to the neck, and another had a sucking chest wound. Two had less-threatening injuries: a leg fracture and bruises.
With red smoke still choking the ground, litter teams rushed in to triage the wounded and transport them to advanced-level care at a field hospital configured in a tent at the barracks compound.
“What you just saw was care under fire,” Army Maj. Jack Twomey, a 399th Combat Support Hospital nurse, told international observers attending the demonstration. It’s a time of quick decision-making for troops on the ground, he explained. A tourniquet applied to stop bleeding or an airway cleared to restore breathing can make the difference between life and death.
“It was good training,” Malawian Staff Sgt. George Matubwa said after the exercise. “We learned how to react to an ambush, both medically and tactically, and how to get the casualties and move them to advanced care.”
As the field hospital team went to work on the casualties, Malawi Defense Force Maj. Edward Mandala, the senior clinical officer, reflected on the increased confidence his soldiers showed in applying life-saving skills and moving casualties from the point of injury.
In addition to getting a refresher on their basic skills, the 399th classes had introduced them to new ones such as how to operate in a biological environment or conduct a mass casualty evacuation, he said.
Richey, who accompanied the Malawian soldiers through the field training exercise, gave their performance a thumbs up. “I love it when good training all comes together,” he said.
Citing his own experience, Richey said the training the Malawian soldiers received during Medreach 11 will provide a foundation for them to draw on when and if it’s needed.
“No scenario is ever the same,” he said. “You train from A to Z. Then, when you actually get in there, that training kicks in. As you are sizing up the scene, it all comes to you.”
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Operational Contract Support Joint Exercise 2016 provides training across the spectrum of OCS readiness from requirements and development of warfighter staff integration and synchronization through contract execution supporting the Joint Force Commander. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder/Released)
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