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  • The Importance of Exercises

    I remember several years ago during Operation Enduring Freedom, participating in a MOPP 4 exercise while being deployed. At the time, I thought it was pretty silly and redundant. I mean, wasn’t I already in a war zone? Why did I need to exercise “war?” What I couldn’t appreciate at the time was that