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European competition is a unique event

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in itself . It is a large scale medical

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competition that Europe probably hasn't

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seen in recent memory . It sees the

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entire medical enterprise come together

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as one team . It doesn't matter if

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you're from the States . If you're from

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Europe or a multinational partner ,

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we're all here as one team , we get to

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learn from each other . We get to work

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together , see how each other are doing

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things while building that relationship

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means a lot to us . Why ? Because we

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are challenged , we like being

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challenged and we can compete for us

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with the best in Europe , even with the

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best in the world , I think . And um I

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think all in all , it's not about the

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winner at the end , but we can learn so

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much from each other . So we're always

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looking forward to such competitions .

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Best medic increases our readiness by

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one , giving the people out here

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competing the skills to hone their

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skills and become better medics and

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better tacticians . It gives training

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resources and education to the people

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that are running and managing the

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competition and it encourages everybody

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to get out there and push themselves

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once our nation calls on us . That

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means if a part of the nation asks for

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help and we hit the battlefield . We

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looked to the left and we looked to the

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right . It doesn't matter if it's a

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different medical organization from the

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US army , it doesn't matter if it's a

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different country . We've already built

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those relationships . We've already

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worked together . We're able to execute

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our medical mission flawlessly and even

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standing in here in the extreme weather

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that we're in right now shows that we

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can execute that medical mission in any

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environment that we're placed in .

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That's army medicine .