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Pete Hegseth: “We also have multiple national defense areas there which are…”

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And then sealing that southwest border is the defense of the American people. It's the defense of the homeland. And when you talk to the troops that are down there doing that, they're proud of it. We also have multiple national defense areas there which are controlled by Dow where we can do rapid testing on counter UAS Jaita 401 capabilities. So we're using those places to streamline the process by which we see what the cartels are trying to do and get after it with new capabilities that we can then field elsewhere, also learning from Ukraine in the process. (1:00:25–1:00:38)

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