Jay Collins: “If you're going to be gone for eight months, you can bet…”

“And the preparation time is incredible. And anytime you deploy, you have multiple training iterations before that. So If you're going to be gone for eight months, you can bet you're going to have probably 30 to 60 days of training prior to that. And then you had Afghanistan and Iraq and you come back and you go to South America when I was the seventh group with about three or four months in between.” (04:25–04:32)

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