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Welcome to Joint Base andrews in

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Washington , D . C . In just a few

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minutes . Deputy Secretary of Defense

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Dr Kathleen Hicks will arrive and board

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this plane just behind me for a two day

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trip to southern California . While

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she's there . She's going to see how

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our military services , the army , the

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Navy , the Air Force and the Marine

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Corps are coming together to experiment

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and innovate with things like

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artificial intelligence , machine

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learning , autonomous technologies and

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advanced communication tools in order

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to give our men and women on the

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battlefield the most advanced suite of

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communications tools ever known to man .

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We're talking about reducing

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battlefield decision making time from

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days to just seconds or even minutes .

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And while we're there we'll meet with a

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lot of different senior leaders but

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she's also going to meet with some mid

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grade and junior leaders to talk about

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things like quality of life issues ,

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get their input into department

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operations and policies and thank them

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for their enormous amounts of hard work .

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And of course no trip to southern

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California is going to be complete

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unless we take a look at the drought

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and wildfire issues that are affecting

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not just our installations but

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communities across California while

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she's there she'll meet with cow fire

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personnel and military personnel who

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are tackling these challenges head on .

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It's going to be a really great trip .

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We can't wait to bring you along and

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we'll see you next in camp Pendleton