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>> i am so lucky today. i got back from my six-month deployment this morning, so i get a chance to send him off the proper way. >> so important to have my wife on the flight line sending me off, i could not think of a better way to have some encouragement. >> it will be five months before the men of this platoon set foot on u.s. soil again. >> after five nonstop days of
thing. cnn newsroom continues right now with randi kaye. >> hi there, suzanne. thank you. well, three major stories on the radar this hour. starting with a major hurricane. category 3 irene batters the bahamas and eyes the carolinas. chad myers is watching that. a hostage ordeal is over in tripoli, but the fighting goes on, and moammar gadhafi still out of sight. and washington surveys the damage from the earthquake that shook the east coast almost 24 hours ago. i want to start with a huge and still growing hurricane irene. chad myers is watching it all for us. what's it doing ...
This is as real as it gets. fox news gets up and close. casey stegall is there to give us that look. >> you know we like to get up close and personal. this is characterized as high tempo to simulate anything that the troops could encounter in a real-life war zone. this isn't afghanistan and these are not real targets. the bombs are very real, as combat training, more than 1,000 troops from all branchs of the military that have come to experience. >> this started as jointed exercise and kept the flavor the entire time. that helps us because we never find as -- fight as individual services. we f...
But the bombs are very real as was the combat training more than 1,000 troops from all branches of the military have come here to experience. >> it started historically as a joint exercise and it's kept that flavor the entire time. that really helps us because again, we never fight as individual services. we always fight as a joint force. >> don't just find aircraft belonging to u.s. forces only here on the flight line. in fact, militaries with 25 different countries also bring the personnel here for training. >> the red flag exercise is all encompassing from giving newer pilots lessons in the...
Characterized as high tempo because the idea is to simulate virtually everything that troops would counter in a real live war zone. take a look. this isn't afghanistan and these are not real targets. but the bombs are very real, as is the combat training more than 1,000 troops from all branches of the military have come here to experience. >> it started historically, as a joint exercise and it's kept that flavor the entire time. that really helps us because again, we never find the individual services we fly as a joint force and we have that common language. >> and you don't just find aircraft...