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Speaker 1: Now, as we know, an American defense vessel arrived in

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Tyler, good morning, thank you for having us.

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Speaker 2: Lovely to have you in the studio.

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Speaker 1: And we've also got Royal Australian Navy Lieutenant Joe Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 4: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Hell are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Great, It's lovely to have you both in the studio. Now.

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Speaker 1: First off, Tyler, paint a bit of a picture for

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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you, So the Mrs Land, I believe it's

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Speaker 3: over five hundred feet long and it has twelve decks.

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Speaker 3: So we have the main deck, which is the first deck,

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Speaker 1: And I guess you need a huge spice because how

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Speaker 3: So right now we're a hybrid crew. We have MSc

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Speaker 3: the weapons department. So we have a few hundred uniformed

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Speaker 2: Wow, what is it?

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Speaker 1: I can't even imagine what it's like, Joe being it

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Speaker 4: Four house sailings. If they haven't done time on FIB

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Speaker 4: sir said, they've got a canteen on board and it

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Speaker 4: blows the doors off any canteen. It's a full in

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, it's like it sounds like going to be pretty.

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Speaker 3: Cool, absolutely if you have the opportunity to come down

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me Tyler, in terms of having the Aussies

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Speaker 2: What's it like?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So back in Guam when they came out to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and tell us a little bit more about the

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Speaker 3: Yes, so we are working with the Aucus Initiative, the

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Speaker 1: And Joseph, I understand that the Navy personnel have jumped

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Speaker 2: Is it luck? Is it interesting?

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Speaker 1: Then? You know, having the two countries sort of joined

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I would suspect absolutely, And I think I think

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Speaker 4: how do we do business back home? It's very similar

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Speaker 1: Now, Tyler, I know the crew. You're here obviously in

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Speaker 3: Absolutely?

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Speaker 4: I have a couple of challenge coins for you.

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Speaker 2: I have to do a challenge.

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Speaker 4: So if you went to the gate, you were challenged

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Speaker 4: So in the American nations, in the American Services Correction,

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Speaker 2: For these materials. Oh, thank you to say thank you.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's wonderful, thank you so much. That is lovely

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. I love that. And is that something?

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Speaker 2: Wonderful stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, Royal Australian Navy Lieutenant Joe Melbourne, lovely to have

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Speaker 1: Thank you both so much for joining us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you