08-28-2015 - Eglin Dispatch

Friday, August 28, 2015
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 EOD updates training
to increase retention,
improve readiness.
See story Page 2
 EAT2LIVE:
Eglin’s Healthy
Weight Program.
See story Page 3
 More than 240
Airmen selected
for staff sergeant.
See story Page 4
Home
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 Chapel assistant
supports TAAC-Air
in Afghanistan.
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Year No. 9 Edition No. 35
EOD updates training to increase Eat2Live: Eglin’s Healthy
Weight Program
retention, improve readiness
By ILKA COLE
By JESS ECHERRI
Team Eglin Public Affairs
Air Force Civil Engineering Center
Public Affairs
The explosive ordnance disposal
division of the Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Readiness Directorate here, in collaboration with Air
Education and Training Command,
is refining and upgrading the curriculum of three courses in order
to produce more EOD Airmen, and
ensure balanced mission capability
across the Air Force.
To become an EOD Airman, a
candidate must go through the Air
Force’s EOD preliminary course
and Navy School EOD. Historically,
the EOD technical training program
had a 75 percent attrition rate. This
means, for every 500 Airmen enrolled in the program, the Air Force
will gain an average of 125 EOD
Airmen.
“The career field requires at
least 134 graduates per year,” said
Chief Master Sgt. Martin Cortez, the
EOD career field manager. “That’s
not sustainable with the current
attrition.”
Approved by Cortez, an EOD preliminary course training standard
was developed by course instructors and Donald Williams, the AETC
EOD training manager. The intent
of the new curriculum is to better
prepare EOD candidates for the academic challenges at Navy School
EOD here and to possibly increase
EOD Airmen production rates. Williams plans for the new curriculum
to be in place by November 2015.
“The intent isn’t to weed people
out,” said Senior Master Sgt. Edward Lockhart, the EOD operations
and training program manager. “We
ultimately want to reduce attrition
while maintaining quality.”
A constant change in mission
priorities has also driven changes
in EOD training. The actions and
threats that drove Operation Enduring Freedom initiated an evolution
of Air Force EOD that continued for
14 years. About 10 years ago, EOD
Airmen supporting Operation Iraqi
Freedom started combating the im-
CHRISSY CUTTITA | USAF
Staff Sgt. Brian Westgate, 96th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal robotics technician,
remotely moves an EOD robot from a safe location at Eglin Air Force Base. The Air Force will make training
updates in the next fiscal year to help with retention and readiness.
provised explosive device threat outside base boundaries in a mounted
mission unlike any before. About five
years ago, the OEF and OIF missions morphed and EOD Airmen
began combating IEDs on foot with
minimal equipment and protection.
With the steady change in objectives across the globe, EOD Airmen
have been sprinting to keep up while
maintaining their knowledge in all
mission areas, Lockhart said.
To support these objectives and
better meet the needs of the career
field, the EOD career development
course is also being transformed.
The current career development
course program relies on written
content that is difficult to keep upto-date with the career field’s everchanging tactics, techniques and
procedures. A new plan was developed by the EOD CDC writer and
other AFCEC EOD personnel to
create a dynamic learning experience that retains the overall course
construct while replacing the written content with driven study using
source references.
Although implementation timeframes haven’t been determined yet,
personnel in AFCEC’s EOD division
are determined to accomplish this
transformation as soon as possible.
Various advanced courses,
which EOD Airmen must also complete during their careers, are also
evolving.
One of the most dramatic changes made is the transformation of the
seven-level craftsman course to an
EOD team leader course. Originally
the course was a classroom-taught
class, students will now learn in a
hands-on environment by leading
simulated exercises at a training site
at Sheppard AFB, Texas.
Instituting the changes was initially estimated to cost over $5 million, but was reduced to less than $3
million after analysis and repositioning of existing assets. The cost is well
worth the results, Lockhart said.
“A lot of the operations we run are
high risk,” he said. “The effects are
catastrophic if we fail. Our results
are either initial success or total
failure.”
With a curriculum that will be
mostly performance-based, EOD
Airmen will be taught and evaluated on EOD in-garrison incident
leadership skills including: aircraft;
unexploded ordnance; IED; and
chemical, biological, radiological and
nuclear responses.
The implementation of the EOD
team leader course curriculum is
planned for January 2016.
Eglin Hospital introduced a new program
called Eat2Live August 26.
Eat2Live is a collaboration
between Health Promotion, Nutritional Medicine
and behavioral health
specialists. These experts
combined their knowledge
to provide instruction on
weight management.
To make up the new
comprehensive weight
management class, the
Health Promotion’s “Better Body, Better Life” class
was merged with nutritional medicine classes, and individual appointments with
behavioral specialists.
“We wanted to eliminate
the confusion from having
several programs with different requirements. This
meets everybody’s needs,”
said Alison DeCaro, Eglin’s health promotion
coordinator.
The two-part program
consists of 12, one-hour
modules on healthy weight
management topics provided by subject matter
experts. Participants can
attend classes and make
their appointments in
any order after they complete the first five basic
modules.
“After they [participants] complete the first
set, Better Choices/Traction, Nutrition, Carbs,
Planning and Fitness, they
will choose seven of eight
choices in the second set
of modules,” she said.
The second set of modules provides in-depth nutritional medicine topics
and individual appointments with behavioral
specialists. This allows
the participants to tailor
their program to fit their
‘Feds Feed Families’
campaign underway
By SAMUEL KING JR.
Team Eglin Public Affairs
The annual “Feds Feed Families”
food drive campaign is underway
here with the first large donation
drop off event called “Fill the
Truck” scheduled for Aug. 29-30
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the
commissary.
The goal of the event is to fill a
base fire truck with food donations
over the two-day period.
“This is a great opportunity for the
base to come together and give back
to the community and those most in
need,” said Staff Sgt. Eric Dino, one
of this year’s campaign coordinators.
The campaign is a voluntary effort
by federal employees to bring in/
collect non-perishable food items for
distribution to local food banks.
Donations can be canned food,
condiments, baking goods or even
hygiene products. Drop off locations
are at the hospital, mini-mall, main
fitness center, the military personnel
flight building and commissary.
The donations will be taken to the
“Sharing and Caring” organizations
of Niceville and Fort Walton Beach
and Salvation Army of Fort Walton
Beach.
The campaign continues through
the end of September.
ILKA COLE | USAF
Eglin Hospital introduced a new program called Eat2Live
August 26 at Eglin Air Force Base.
needs. Participants can
call these clinics directly to
set up appointments. Subjects range from healthy
hearts, healthy weigh,
supplement safety, sports
nutrition, goal setting and
maintenance.
“It’s really their program. They choose how
and when they want to do
it,” said the health promotion coordinator.
Active duty ser vice
members who do not meet
their abdominal measurement requirements can
also benefit from the education and support the
healthy weight program
provides. It is not mandatory, but a resource to
guide them on the proper
course for success.
“The service member
has to re-test in 90 days. If
they complete the modules
well in advance of the 90
days, this is going to help
them,” said DeCaro. “They
can incorporate what they
are learning in those 90
days.”
Anyone interested in
the program can enroll
with a referral from their
primary care manager or
through self-referral.
The program is open
to all TRICARE beneficiaries. For information
call 883-8020 to speak to
the health promotion
coordinator.
This inaugural 9K & Fun Run event will honor CMSAF#9
James C. Binnicker and will benefit the Air Force Enlisted Village.
Saturday, August 29, 2015 @ 7AM
Bob Hope Village
30 Holly Ave., Shalimar
Fun Run immediately following the end of 9K.
T-Shirts to first 300 registrants!
Music, Refreshments & Awards Ceremony immediately
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More than 240 Airmen selected for staff sergeant Chapel assistant supports TAAC-Air in Afghanistan
Team Eglin Public Affairs
Air Force officials selected 13,269 of 39,260 eligible
senior airmen to staff sergeant for a selection rate of
33.8 percent. The average
score for those selected was
399.52, with an average time
in grade of 2.22 years and
time in service of 4.68, respectively. Weighted factor
averages included the following: 248.76 for enlisted
performance reports, 0.99
for decorations, 63.54 for the
promotion fitness exam and
65.95 for the specialty rating
test.
Congratulations to the
following Eglin Airmen selected for promotion:
Air Force Test Center
Davidsaul Adriatico
Gage Bergman
Kimberly Braud
Justin Brown
33rd Fighter Wing
Kimberly Beaver
Gregory Bolden
Timothy Bourland
Derek Christian
Jesse Cottrill
Santiago De La Rosa
Edward Ellis
Jackson Hailey
Tabetha Hunter
Michael Kantack
Kyle Kimble
Dylan Lightfoot
Ryan Littlejohn
Bradley Mayes
Jeremy McKague
Shrutit Patel
Daniel Phelan
Brian Porter
Mario Pozo
Jonathan Rivera-Flores
Terence Salazar
William Seay
Alex Shuster
Matthew Thompson
Robert Vandezande
Jared Vought
53rd Wing
Joseph Allen
Douglas Barnes
Daryn Connors
Janus Diez
Michael Ellis
Tiffany Fernandez
Eric Goodman
Taylor Hanes
Randall Ingraham
Lauren Lamotte
Brandon Linamen
Kyle Muehl
Jorge Nunez
Christopher Obrath
Nathan Pierce
John Pinkston
Joseph Prince
William Rankin
John Ricketts
Jorge Vanegastolosa
Mikael Vega
David Carson
Adrian Cerevera
Jeremy Cheav
Targina Cherry
Christian Chilcoat
Lara Christiansen
Thomas Church
Charlene Cole
Christopher Coley
Kevin Conrad
Sydney Cox
Joshua Creamer
Davion Dale
Stephen Danicek
Aaron Deforge
Mario Diaz
Craig Dillon
Kwesi Doamekpor
Rhandi Domson
Dante Dubose
Jamesmichael Dugan
Jeremy Earl
Quinn Epps
Jennifer Estes
Maegan Evanisko
Wayne Falk
Nick Fazio
Caleb Fennig
Karl Finley
Brandon Fleming
Vikki Flores
Joseph Freitas
Matthew Fuselier
Joseph Garcia
96th Test Wing
Brittany Aldridge
Brandon Alexander
Gary Allsbrook
Jason Amat-Kadir
Richard Anderson
Guymarcus Atidepe
Sabrina Bailey
Brandon Barnett
Corey Bates
Brian Beauchamp
David Bello
Zachary Bender
Gabrielle Biegler
Christopher Blaine
Brandon Blake
James Bohannon
Jesse Braham
Steffen Branham
Kadeem Brisbane
Maria Brune
Rockwood Bullard
Julius Burr
Evan Gillenwater
Theo Gilmore
Heath Goins
Samuel Gonzalez
Justin Grider
James Griggs
Joseph Guerrero
Troy Hall
Austin Hamilton
Nataliya Hampton
Brandi Hansen
Kimberli Harford
Sterling Harris
Ulan Hawthorne
Christopher Hayes
Hakeem Henry
Ryan Heredia
Colton High
Monica Hipsher
Justin Hogg
Jeffrey Hopkins
Marshall Horsman
Aaron Huffmaster
Susanna Huffmaster
Alicia Hunt
Rodrick Idrogo
Evan Jackson
James Jackson
Alexander Jones
Justin Jorgensen
Husein Khan
Robert Kirbo
Kyle Kitzhoffer
Anthony Lachat
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Charlyn Lang
Krystle Laursen
Micheal Lewis
Michael Linder
Clifton Lovar
Elijhah Magee
Christopher Mann
Dennis Martin
Giancarlo Martni
James May
Michael Medlin
Alexander Mercado
Nelson Meurer
Keith Miller
Alex Morton
Matthew Munoz
Philip Naquin
Zaegan Nieves
Michael Oliver
Ronald Olney
Ryan O’Neal
Nicholas Ott
Demichael Overstreet
Kaylah Paetow
Philip Pagnotti
Ashlee Parra
Travis Parris
Kyle Perkins
Charles Perkinson
Randolph Pettit
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KABUL, Afghanistan —
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I find great fulfillment in
helping people.”
That’s what Chaplain
(Lt. Col.) Bryan
Hochhalter, deployed
here from the U.S.
Air Force Academy
in Colorado Springs,
Colorado, said about
his job at the 438th
Air Expeditionary
Wing / Train, Advise,
Assist Command-Air
(TAAC-Air).
Several months ago
438th AEW leadership
requested a chaplain
team to support the
personnel assigned to
TAAC-Air at Hamid
Karzai International
Airport and Forward
Operating Base Oqab.
“We are here
to provide for the
spiritual needs of the
community and ensure
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Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Bryan Hochhalter and Tech. Sgt. Sandra Alvor-Thrash talk to Train, Advise, Assist CommandAir (TAAC-Air) personnel in the “Gratitude Café” during
their weekly rounds to work centers at Forward Operating Base Oqab, Aug. 16.
opportunities to exercise
the constitutional right
to the free exercise of
religion,” Hochhalter
said. “As members of the
U.S. Air Force Chaplain
Corps, we focus upon
two main goals: one
— advise and inform Air
Force leaders on matters
related to religious,
spiritual, ethical, moral,
and morale concerns, and
advocate for religious and
spiritual needs, and two
— provide spiritual care.”
He said the biggest
challenge is meeting the
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Desmond Sharp
Bradley Shepherd
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Andrez Sloan
Amanda Smith
Amity Smith
James Smith
Olivia Smith
Richard Smith
Simone Smith
William Smith
Corey Southard
Patricia Spaulding
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Anna Strange
Stacy Stricker
Randi Stroup
Jacob Stull
Claude Summers
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Matthew Svoboda
Christopher Sy
Jessica Tanedo
Darren Taylor
Christopher Tennyson
Joseph Testa
John Thompson
Dominic Thornton
Tyler Truddle
Robert Trump
Thomas Turner
Shawna Vandezande
Justin Viewins
Alex ViniskiI
John Walsh
Christopher Walt
Collin Ward
Stephanie Webster
Christina White
Nicholas Wilkinson
John Williams
Ian Wolf
Michael Wortman
Shane Zimmerman
diverse religious needs
of the HKIA community.
As the wing chaplain
one of his main goals is
to accurately assess the
religious needs of the
community and to ensure
the required religious
and worship services,
programs and spiritual
counseling are provided.
“We plan to visit as
many people as we can
to get to know them
and their contributions
to the mission, advise
leadership of issues
affecting the unit, such
as spiritual, moral or
morale concerns, and
provide spiritual care to
our warriors,” said Tech.
Sgt. Sandra Alvor-Thrash,
non-commissioned officer
for chapel operations.
Alvor-Thrash, deployed
here from Eglin Air Force
Base, Florida, and a
Dallas, Texas-native, said
being able to provide 100
percent confidentiality is
her favorite part of her
job.
“No one else in the
[Department of Defense]
has it,” she said. “The
chaplain corps is the only
one to offer this and I
am a big advocate for it.
Who better to share your
struggles with, whether
spiritual, moral or just
daily work stressors,
than with someone
who wants to listen and
provide comfort and care
- without your chain of
command or work center
ever knowing [about it].
It’s a safe place, we don’t
report anything you say
to us.”
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Luke Francis, born July 6
to 1st Lt. Nicholas and Laura
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Teague Michael Owain,
born July 6 to Staff. Sgt.
Aran and Staff Sgt. Katerina
Nelske
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Security Forces team heads
West for Reserve field training
By TECH. SGT. SAM KING
919th Special Operations Wing Public
Affairs
TECH. SGT. SAM KING | USAF
Senior Airman Amanda Smith, 919th Special Operations Security Forces Squadron, walks through the entry way of her two-week home.
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TECH. SGT. SAM KING | USAF
919th Special Operations Security Forces Squadron Airmen perform an
ambush scenario against two vehicles during the squadron’s annual training at
Camp Guernsey, Wyo., Aug. 4.
the deployed force as local merchants, village elders, and of course,
militants. Through those interactions,
the 919th Airmen would try to glean
any kind of helpful information about
the deployed unit that could be used
against them later.
The Airmen they faced were two
Colorado-based Reserve security
forces units: The 310th and 710th Security Forces Squadrons from Schriever and Buckley Air Force Bases.
“The 919th was the optimal choice
for this key role,” said Master Sgt.
TECH. SGT. SAM KING | USAF
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919th Special Operations Security Forces Squadron Airmen walk back toward their camp after a training session.
Master Sgt. Paul Morales, 919th Special Operations Security Forces Squadron, discusses building-clearing techniques with his team.
Casey Karins, the NCO-in-charge warfare. Their training and expertise
of training for the 710th SFS. “The was clearly evident in the attention to
exercise scenario focused on coun- detail they brought to the exercise.”
ter-insurgency and unconventional
The 310th and 710th’s deployed
force encountered constant spying, ins praised the 919th’s role-playing
small arms fire, ambushes, strategic abilities saying that reinforcing good
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— Under the big skies
and rolling plains of the
West, members of the
919th Special Operations Security
Forces Squadron ate, slept, trained
and lived for most of the month of
August.
More than 20 Airmen from the
unit ventured Northwest to serve as
the opposing force for other Reserve
security forces units participating
in a field training exercise. All of the
919th’s security forces have gone
through similar training as the deployed or occupying force, but here
they were required to think and act as
if on the opposite side of the conflict.
It’s a real change in mentality,”
said Senior Airman Aaron Bradley.
“We are trained on how to keep the
base secure, but now our job is to find
the weaknesses and get in.”
While there, the Airmen lived in the
make-shift villages constructed out of
large storage containers. Many grew
out their facial hair and wore light,
cultural garb to appear more like remote Middle Eastern villagers.
Their roles were to interact with
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Every year, hundreds
of technically or tactically
skilled officers and noncommissioned officers,
trained at great expense,
leave the military for the
private sector, not because
their skills aren’t needed
but because the military
up-or-out promotion system
and enlisted retention gates
favor leadership qualities
over technical expertise.
Defense Secretary
Ash Carter, in shaping his
“Force of the Future” initiative, is weighing creation
of new “technical career
tracks” that would allow
many more high-tech military personnel to serve full
careers without having to
strive for command or being pushed into supervisory
roles.
These new career tracks
can be compared to war-
rant officer
ranks used
by every
service
except Air
Force and
also to Navy’s limited
duty officer
program.
But the
new tracks
would be revolutionary in
another sense: they would
be used to recruit highskilled technicians from
industry into mid-grade
officer ranks and career enlisted slots.
The idea would be to
avoid the time and expense
of having the military train
from scratch all of technology experts it will need for
future battle spaces and
force requirements.
An explanation that
Tom
Philpott
Brad Carson, acting under
secretary for personnel
and readiness, shared with
service leaders notes that
there is “little opportunity”
now for citizens in “dualuse skills” such as cyber,
advance signal, space
technology and intelligence
to enter the military “laterally” into ranks or pay
grades appropriate for their
knowledge and experience.
Instead, they must enter
as O-1s (ensign or second
lieutenant) or no higher
than E-4 (petty officer third
class, corporal or senior
airman) as enlisted specialists. Service branches
understandably want “to
prevent lateral entry candidates from assuming command roles without proper
development,” the proposal
explains. Yet current barriers to entry, and to retain-
ing technical expertise,
are troubling, it says, given
the “proliferation of high
technology in warfare and
the increasing desire for diverse cognitive and specialized skills in the military.”
Some of the military’s
“greatest tactical and technical talent” is being underused and underdeveloped,
Carson’s proposal argues,
because personnel must
compete for command or
critical assignments to advance. This not only creates
a backlog of personnel competing for the same billets
but it raises personnel costs
because then technical experts “are promoted out of
the rank at which they can
perform in jobs for which
they are ideally suited and
would prefer to make a
career.”
One example given is ex-
ceptional combat aviators
who don’t want to command
squadrons, and yet must
compete for promotion to
stay in service. Likewise,
many technical experts
have a passion to keep
working in their fields rather than supervise others.
If Carter embraces the
technical career track solution, he would order each
service to designate no
fewer than five branches,
occupational specialties
or career fields to be “dual
track” with one toward
command or supervisor
and the other to hone technical ability. The services
would identify an appropriate point in each career
field where personnel would
choose, or even compete, to
stay in their current grade
or position based on technical proficiency. Technical
tracks would be exempt
from promotion and command selection boards. In
lieu of “up-or-out” pressure
they would face “performor-out” hurdles. Because
they would be frozen in
grade, they would get automatic pay raises based only
on years in service.
Air Force, because it
doesn’t have warrant officers, would be “the most
radically affected in terms
of cultural change,” the document explains. “However,
the reform proposal mirrors that of United States’
partners and allies wherein
commissioned officers and
senior NCOs may remain in
particular rank for most of
their careers.” These have
included pilots, radar operators and cryptanalysts – all
See career page 9
jobs with few supervisory
responsibilities.
There is potential for
significant cost savings too.
Without supervisory duties,
technical track personnel
won’t need to be reassigned
often, reducing military
moving costs. There won’t
get higher pay from promotions, and that also will
dampen future retirement
costs.
Assuming 250 personnel
enter the track from each
of five career fields selected
by the services, “this reform could yield over $100
million in base compensation savings alone” over its
first five years, the proposal
estimates. If the number of
personnel in each technical track grew to 1000, total
savings on personnel could
exceed $1.7 billion within
five years.
Some outside military
manpower analysts are
skeptical of the department
achieving these reforms
before the Obama administration expires in January 2017. But the depth of
Carter’s involvement eases
that skepticism. Many can’t
recall a defense secretary
being so conversant on
in-the-weeds personnel issues or so steadfast in his
commitment to change.
“This is just a much
bolder move, to say upfront
we need to do something
like this to get the human
capital, the talent, we
need,” said Harry Thie, a
senior management scientist at RAND Corp.
Thie has studied military personnel systems for
decades and agrees that
up-or-out, “at a minimum,
diminishes performance
and productivity. When
you are non-select for
promotion, for all practical
purposes…the individual
feels, ‘I’ve been fired.’ Even
if they stay for another four
or five years, it can’t be
with high morale.”
Thie, a retired Army
colonel, predicted Air
Force and Navy will be
more comfortable using
technical career tracks
to recruit outside experts
into mid-level officer and
enlisted slots.
“For the Army and
Marine Corps it might be
somewhat harder, because
of the deep-seated culture
Magnolia Grill
built around the profession” of being a solider or
Marine, Thie said.
An issue critics might
raise, Thie agreed, is why
the military doesn’t just
hire more outside experts
as defense civilians to meet
growing high-tech needs
rather than create an extraordinary on-ramp into
uniformed service.
Lawrence J. Korb, a se-
nior fellow with the Center
for American Progress and
former Pentagon manpower chief in the Reagan
administration, said lateral
entry by way of a technical
track “makes a great deal
of sense.”
Carter’s Force of the
Future, Korb said, might be
the most radical overhaul
of the military personnel
system attempted since
launch of the all-volunteer
force. That Congress this
year is moving to modify
retirement for the future
force could signal other
long-sought reforms are
possible, he said.
Tom Philpott is a syndicated
columnist. You may write to him
at Military Update, P.O. Box
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throughout the exercise
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