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Colonel tim schafer , I'm the G three

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Director of operations for southern

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european Task Force Africa

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headquartered in Vicenza Italy . My

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responsibility is to plan resource and

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oversee all army operations across the

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continent of Africa . In addition to

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provide support as required in europe

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Africa lions about building coalitions ,

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it's about building teams , it's about

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working with partners , it's about

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showing what professionalism looks like

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across the force as we as the americans

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and the US military model that but also

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as we integrate our partners and allies

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across our exercises both virtual and

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command post exercises and live in

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field training exercises could do

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something like this back home but back

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home is easy . Um coming to Africa

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challenges us in logistics , it

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challenges us in strategic reach . It

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challenges us and operating in harsh

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and unfamiliar terrain and environments

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and it gets us closer to our partners

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by coming to train with them . We train

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logistics , we train intelligence , we

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train chaplains across all faith groups

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to better support their soldiers and

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their families . We've got Navy Marine

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Corps Air Force all present and

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participating . We have us interagency

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from State Department U . S . A . I . D .

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And then of course our partner nations

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and our allies . We have NATO allies

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participated in the form of the british ,

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the Italians , Morocco , Tunisia

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Senegal Ghana and chad predominantly