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1. On Friday, October 7 at 8:30am two buses picked us up at the hotel and transported us over to Fort Leonard Wood. A short 10 minute trip. This photo was taken at Fort Leonard Wood.
2. Our first stop was at this building for a briefing on what kind of things we would be seeing this weekend.
3. Just milling around outside and waiting to go inside.
4. We were taken to a large briefing room where Colonel Aguilar talked to us about how Fort Leonard Wood has changed since we were in training there. He also described the things we would be doing at the different sites this weekend.
5. Colonel Aguilar described what the training facilities are like these days.
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7. After the briefing we had a chance to look around inside this building.
8. Now we are at the site where the heavy equipment operators are trained. Segerant Sartin talked to us on the bus while the other bus was out on the tour. It was interesting to hear him describe how the training procedures have changed over the years.
9. Waiting for the other bus to return so we can go to lunch.
10. Lunch today was with the troops at one of the new modern mess halls.
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15. After lunch we were taken to where today's engineers learn how to detect and remove mines and other explosive devices.
16. At this location we got to see what types of equipment are available for detecting and removing explosive devices. Notice the remote controlled tracked vehicle on the left.
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18. The engineers today use dogs to find explosive devices.
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20. This was the end of our tour for today. We got back at the hotel around 5:00pm. At 6:00 we had pizza and liquid refreshments in the hotel hospitality room.