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Everyone good ? All right . 

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Crusader Challenge was accepted as a 

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readiness reset for the 42nd Air Base 

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wing in December of 2022 . The Crusader 

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Challenge is a course that's developed , 

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taking all the RAT requirements and 

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breaking them down into three phases 

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combat skills , adapt and survive . Um , 

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it covers the requirements , but then 

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it also gives them some extra , uh , 

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additional training when it comes to 

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helo operations , insertions , and then 

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working in a contested environment to 

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include programming radios as , uh , 

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Harris 152s UHF . And not relying just 

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on LMR radios . 

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When you think about crusader , the 

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very basic definition of crusader is to 

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forcefully campaign to forcefully work 

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hard towards a goal . So we started 

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with our foundations , you know , 

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obstacle course ruck , just to get 

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those things out and build some 

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camaraderie and teamwork . Uh , amongst 

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ourselves and then now we're doing CQB 

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which is room clearing . Well , the 

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overall mission is air superiority , 

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right ? So , uh , our overall mission 

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is just to get us in line and maintain 

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that air superiority because and if we 

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ever need to . Go into a combat 

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situation we need to be able to make 

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sure that we have our teammates back so 

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I could look to my right and say I have 

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my teammates back my teammate can look 

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back to me and say I have your back 

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even though they're different AFSCs and 

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we all come together , it doesn't 

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matter what their their prime . Purpose 

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or primary AFSC or mission is we're 

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going to come together in a combat 

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situation and we're gonna have to 

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accomplish it's just all about setting 

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the foundation and everything for being 

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able to go prepare ourselves to go out 

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in the field with the army and the 

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Marines and do what we need to do in a 

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combat situation .