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as hurricane season . Nears soldiers 

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from the US Army Corps of Engineers to 

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49th engineering Battalion are prepping 

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at Carlisle barracks in Carlisle 

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pennsylvania for what may be a busy 

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season . I think you're on the last one 

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there . Yeah , we're doing assessments 

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for fema , critical infrastructure 

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analysis to see what it would take to 

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power up various pieces of 

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infrastructure during an emergency 

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assessments like these are also taking 

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place across the country and in Puerto 

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rico to help us be better prepared to 

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respond should the Federal Emergency 

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Management Agency tasked them with 

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providing power to facilities in areas 

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affected by a natural disaster , we go 

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into the facility , add up all the load , 

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look at what the facility is going to 

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be used for and determine how much 

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power it will need in order to turn it 

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on to meet the mission that would be 

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required . Meanwhile , about 30 minutes 

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up the road at Fort indian town gap 

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power line distribution specialist with 

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the two 49th are getting hands on 

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training as well , helping the 

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installation with installing new power 

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poles , which is a skill they would be 

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called upon to do while forward 

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deployed or during emergency response 

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situations . Everything that we do out 

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here is ultimately to meet the Army 

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reserves mission to train as we fight . 

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We'll be able to do this overseas and 

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humanitarian and warfighter efforts . 

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Training in this type of setting here 

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and the contiguous United States 

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prepares us for what's to come . Um , 

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for example , when our soldiers were 

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deployed to SaiPan and when our 

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soldiers were deployed to Puerto rico 

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to put the lights back on , not only 

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did the soldiers with the two 49th work 

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on power poles , power lines and 

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perform power infrastructure 

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assessments . They also set up and 

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maintain large generators capable of 

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powering large buildings or encampments 

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Like what they are simulating at a 

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trading range on four Indian town gap . 

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So this helps verify that we are 

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capable of maintaining and 

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troubleshooting when we have power 

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issues while we're in a field 

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environment , the soldiers all say this 

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training just before the start of 

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hurricane season is beneficial to not 

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only their readiness but to the 

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readiness of the areas in which they 

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are training . We've seen many times in 

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recent history where the information 

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was not available and we are trying to 

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get into an area that has been 

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decimated by destruction , trying to 

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maneuver through and figure out if we 

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can actually power up the system and 

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it's a lot easier to do it ahead of 

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time if the information is already 

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there , it makes the response much 

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quicker and much more effective . The 

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two week training exercise also 

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involved the battalion doing facility 

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assessments in Oahu hawaii and 

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conducting facility inspections at car 

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lake dam in north Carolina . As the 

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soldier's gear up for another hurricane 

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season from four indian town gap , 

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Pennsylvania . Patrick , Bloodgood , mm 

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hmm