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tonight an exclusive look inside one of
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the US military's most important
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combatant commands us Central Command it
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is headquartered on mcdill the command
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that oversaw efforts to take down
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violent extremists from Iraq to
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Afghanistan over the past 20 plus years
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the work happening behind the Gates the
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security barriers and the walls of
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sencom is critical to Tampa the nation
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and the world the Commanding General
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takes my co-anchor Courtney Robinson on
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a tour giving us all a look at what
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happens day in and day out
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yeah so this is the joint operation
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General Frank McKenzie walked me into to
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what's called The Jock The Joint
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operations center partially man now
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there will be a lot more people in here
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as activities began to heat up the
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center where since March 2019 he's
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overseen critical missions as the head
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of us Central Command today for a few
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hours it was Declassified for you but
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this is sort of the nerve center in a in
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a crisis I'd be sitting right here
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connected during operation to leaders
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from the president to the Secretary of
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Defense or operators in the field
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there'd be a variety of Information
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Systems displayed we might have live
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video on the big screen right now on the
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big screen you're seeing centcom's area
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of responsibility one of the most
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unstable regions in the world with Iran
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and 20 other countries stretching from
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Egypt to Pakistan North to Kazakhstan
