Wednesday, 19 April 2017

Agilite Tactical Advance Ammo Pouch

The Agilite tactical advanced ammo pouch.


•        Cost​             £35.99 
•        Value for money​4
•        Ease of use       5
•        Construction​      5
Allyness             ​4


  This review will be of a Agilite tactical advanced ammunition pouch. The Agilite company is an Israeli equipment manufacturers based in Tel Aviv and has been providing kit to the Israeli Defense Force personnel including special forces. 


  The pouch itself comes in a few camouflage patterns such as ATACS FG and AU, OD green, coyote tan and of course multicam. For an ammunition pouch this is light years ahead.


  A commander with this on his beltkit can still carry three mags which are held securely as well as a small amount of command kit in a totally unique fold down panel built into the pouch. As well as this amazing feature, the pouch comes with a multi tool holder on a small side pouch attatched to the main body of the ammunition pouch. Furthermore there are elastic loops on the opposite side for glow sticks or even a maglite. 

  The pouch fits three Magpul emags and HK mags with ease. It also holds the 7.62mm emags well but slightly more snuggly. My only draw back with this pouch is the top part of the magazine pouch sits rather high and makes withdrawing the mags a little bit harder than other pouches. 

 
  My final observations is this pouch would be ideal for a junior NCO to mount on his battle belt. Whilst still carrying your ammunition you can carry a minimum of command kit in the laminated panel, so there's no need to search through a ton of crib cards for the most import ones such as a nine liner or frequency changes and grids. 

  The pouch itself is solid in construction with extremely compliant multicam cordura. It has also been designed by a company who knows what they are on about. As most of the Agilite staff have years of combat experience in The Israeli defense forces special operations world. 
 
  For more Israeli tactical gear visit www.agilitegear.com

This Kit Pest Review was written by Callum J Bickerton. Hopefully you enjoyed it and if you have any thoughts or comments related to this article then leave a comment! 


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Sunday, 16 April 2017

Fight Light

DISMOUNTED CLOSE COMBAT LOAD CARRIAGE
PROJECT PAYNE
FIGHT LIGHT 
AND WHAT IT MEANS TO THE AVERAGE SOLDIER

Written by Tom Cooper

  Fight light and Project Payne, are just the names for the plans that the Army have, to try and get you to carry less kit into battle. 

  During the Falklands war the Paras and the Marines tabbed/yomped across East Island carrying full kit.  This in my opinion started the British Army on its obsession of everything on your back just in case.  Also, we haven’t been in a conventional war since. 
Then comes the Iraq War (OP TELIC) and Afghanistan (OP HERRICK).  

  OP TELIC was the start of the I.E.D being used on a large scale.  From this body armour became thicker and heavier.  But, on OP TELIC we had fairly free movement, with vehicles that were able to carry some of our heavier bits of kit and extra ammo.  Then along comes OP HERRICK and we end up carrying what that carried in our wagons, on our back.  Plus, the I.E.D threat goes up, so does the amount of protection. 

  The Taliban used to call us the tortoises because of the amount of armour we wore and the speed we moved.  On top of that, the amount of carried ammo went up because we didn't have the speed and fluidity.  We would sit back a hit the enemy with everything we had. 

  In short, the average weight of a British soldier is around 72kgs and on average he was carrying 53kgs.  Which, you can guess, was shit for fighting! 


“The Soldier cannot be a fighter and pack animal at one and the same time, any more than a field piece can be a gun and a supply vehicle combined.  The idea is wrong at the start .  Yet is always being repeated “ 
                                                              Maj Gen JFC Fuller, to Brig Gen SLA Marshall (1948).


  Now we are back from Afghanistan we need to reasses of how we fight battles.  So the powers that be have done some thinking…

When was the last time we had a fight with someone on par to us?”

  Well, it was WW2 of course.  So, they have looked at what we fought with in Normandy, and particularly what this Welsh bloke, Fusilier Tom Payne carried.





  As you can see it wasn't a lot, and he dropped most of that when he was bagging Nazis around Caen.  

  Look, here is one of his muckers doing a bit of “house to house“.


70 years later we are doing house to house like this 


  As you can see we now carry everything we need for a 24 OP on us, regardless of the type and length of the OP.


  So what can you do about it as an NCO or below ?


“ No soldier worth his salt is afraid of sleeping in the cold for two nights “
Brig Gen SLA Marshal


  The two heaviest things you carry are out of your control if you're lower than a Sgt, ammo and armour.  Back in the day when granddad was bagging Jerrys he carried 100 rounds, 2 Bren mags ( per day ), and his tin hat.  Now we carry 6 mags of 5.56 (180 rounds), a bandoleer of 150 rounds and another 150 rounds of link for the LMG. Not to mention body armour and helmet. 

  So, what can you do to reduce your weight in battle? 

  Well look at what you carry.  First, look at what you carry in your pockets.  Do you really need all that crap?  If it went all 'Bravo Two Zero' and you have to bin your belt kit will that stuff help? No? Mag to grid it! 

  Next webbing/belt kit.  This is what you fight in.  Think about what you need to fight add to that some water and emergency rations.  It grips me when I see any more than this in people's belt kit. Jet boils, T.A.Ms, Gore-tex jackets… get them out! 

  Next look at what you have in your daysack and think about what you need for 12-24 hours.  Small daysacks/jacksacks are becoming quite a thing now.  The good things about these is that they're about 20L so you can't over fill them.  There’s is a brilliant review of one here Linky

  All you need in your daysack is a Gore-Tex jacket, a piece of warm kit like the issue buffalo and a pair of socks.  Ultimately you need to say to yourself 'do I need to take a daysack at all?'  Remember the bigger it is the more crap you’re gonna put in it! 

  I’m not going to say what you should pack in your bergan just remember you’ll have to carry it at some point and maybe over some distance. 

  Okay, to summarise on my waffled ramblings… As a junior NCO or below you won't have much say over how much ammo or what scales of body armour you’ll be carrying, but you have got control of what personal kit you carry.  So try to minimise it. 

  If in doubt take it out!

  You're not gonna die if you haven’t eaten a full 24 hrs ration pack in one day or you haven't got hot brews on tap.


  For more reading look up 'Fight Light' or 'Project Payne' on the Army Knowledge eXchange accessible through the defence gateway.  Failing that ask about it over a few beers down the NAFI.

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Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Sea to Summit eVENT Compression Dry Sack

Sea to Summit eVENT Compression Dry Sack 
  • Cost: ££££ (£35) GET IT HERE
  • Value for Money: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Construction: 4
  • Alliness:         2
  As you may know from previous reviews I use a US Modular Sleeping System.  This is a bulky bit of a beast when you have it at its maximum level of insulation.  This in turn means that it can take up a good bit of room in a bergan.  So, I went looking for a means to reduce it down.


  Ever since the benefits of waterproofing my kit having been demonstrated to me by throwing my bergan in a lake during training I have, naturally, been a big fan of dry bags.  Back then all that was available was the ultra-thick, but utterly bombproof, ortleib bag.  Dry bags have come on a long way since then with lighter and lighter materials.  One issue that has stayed has always been how to get the air out and compress in down as small as possible.  Some dry bags have purge valves in them to let air out as you compress it.  However, I have found that they will always eventually let the air back in, and therefore eventually water.


  Having seen the above I was really interested in the Sea to Summit dry bag when I saw it.  It’s made from a 30D Ultra-Sil ® fabric.  What’s interesting about this fabric is its selectively permeable nature.  Basically, it lets the air out but won’t let anything in.  With a traditional dry bag you have to stuff your kit in as tight as you can, then try to squeeze as muck air out as possible and quickly roll it up closed before the air can get back in.  With the Sea to Summit dry bag you just shove the kit in, do it up and the air gets forced out as you compress it down using the compression straps that are part of the dry bag.  What you end up with is a much more evenly shaped and air-free bit of kit to stow away in your bergan.  For my US Sleeping System, it goes down to about 1/3 of its uncompressed size, which is a considerable reduction.


  In terms of its construction, the Dry bag itself has waterproof seams, that are double stitched and fully tape sealed.  A waterproof and air-permeable eVent® fabric base, a roll top Hypalon® closure that does not wick moisture.  Finally, it has Reinforced stitching on all stress points.  At first look it appears that it could be quite flimsy due to the lightness of the fabric, but this could not be further from the truth.  I have found it to be a totally reliable bit of kit.


  The dry bag comes in five sizes from extra-small through to extra-large.  The sizes roughly equate as follows:
  • XL : 27 cm x 58 cm; 210g; 30 litre max; 10 litre min.
  • L : 23 cm x 50 cm; 168g; 20 litre max; 6.7 litre min.
  • M : 20 cm x 46 cm; 148g; 14 litre max; 4.5 litre min.
  • S :18 cm x 40 cm; 129g; 10 litre max; 3.3 litre min.
  • XS : 15 cm x 35 cm; 107g; 6 litre max; 2 litre min.

  They are dearer than a traditional dry bag, but to my mind the extra cost is worth it due to how much more you can compress your kit.  They only come in the one colour, grey, but as they are always going to be inside another bag that shouldn’t be an issue.  I am gradually swapping out all of my dry bags for these as I love the compression and how easy it is to do using the attached compression web.  You can get them here.



  Just to round off this review I’d like to chuck out one of my top tips for bergan/daysack packing.  Given that I have numerous bits of kit in various dry bags in my bergan/daysack I have cut a number of different shapes out of the plastic from an ice cream tub lid and zip tied them onto the buckles of the dry bags.  This way I can easily tell which is which visually or by touch in the dark.

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Sunday, 9 April 2017

The lost art of digging in

The lost art of digging in

 Learning from the past and the present for a better protected future


  When we picture digging in, it's either one of three things. A quick, couple of feet, deep shell scrapes, dug on one of the few areas that allow it. A six foot deep, mud and rat filled position in Flanders fields or the mosquito filled hell hole of Gallipoli. 

  Fixed defensive positions fell out of favour after WW1. As the post war generals, who cut their teeth as junior officers, in the trenches of both sides developed a maneuverist tactical mindset. The culmination of these tactics was the German, combined arms Blitzkrieg. Speed and maneuver had returned to the battlefield. The French were slow to develop a counter to combined arms tactical approach to warfare. Like many believed the fact that any future war would be just like the last one. The French began building a massive system of fortifications called the Maginot Line. The French believed this colossal work of military engineering and believed it would hold up any German invasion. To some degree it did. It kept the Germans in their borders until the Germans tactical geniuses, such as, Von Rundstedt realized maneuver forces can exploit the failures of fixed positions. The Germans did what the French thought was impossible and drove armoured Panzer Divisions through the Ardennes forest. 


  But trenches and fixed positions in war didn't end with the failure of the Maginot Line. From Kohima to Korea, to the Iran - Iraq war, they have made a regular appearance on the front line. The HERRICK and TELIC Ops have luckily been safely ensconced behind Hesco Bastion or compounds with high walls and rudimentary defences. Some haven't touched any form of building defences, since digging a quick shell scrape in training. But not long ago digging in and building fixed positions was commonplace to every soldier from the Infantry to the Catering Corps.


  Cold War Warriors, you know old and bold who bang on about how every soldier since their generation is soft. Regularly practiced digging established positions with overhead protection, line laid comms via field telephones to reduce radio emissions with little support from the Sappers. Using basic defense stores such as pickets, sand bags and wriggly tin.  

  These 'speed bumps' in the event of a Russian push out of east Germany were to provide the troops the defense against indirect fire and with the use of a individual protection kit, for nuclear fallout. 

  "But this is ancient history, and fuck it, it's honking work to do when your chinstrapped" you may say! But in response, all I can say is can you put a price on good cover. The fixed trench positions of the past are having a forced renaissance since the hostilities in the Ukraine have seen down to a slow protracted fight hidden behind fake ceasefires. 


  Both the Ukrainian and Novorussian forces have reverted to a state of trench warfare that hasn't been seen in Europe since the First World War. After 6,000 casualties on both sides in the first year the war came to a protracted stalemate. In an effort to consolidate what gains both sides had made. These defensive systems were near identical to each other as the training on both sides came from the Soviet style trench systems. These defenses are purely in a rural setting and heavy urban combat has slowed both Ukrainian and separatist forces to a complete standstill, as both sides are using IED's and well defended structures with a minimum of troops to hold up greater forces. A prime example can be seen as the battle of Donetsk airport, a brand new airport built to bring European tourists to a potential Euro football championship in Ukraine. 


  Both sides when they held the airport turned the place into a fortress. Much like the battle of Monte Cassino, the damage gave an advantage to the defenders, as the rubble made up for their lack of defensive stores and also helped deny the interior of the airport to infiltration and armored attack. When the Ukrainian forces held the airport they fought so tenaciously that the separatist forces began calling them 'cyborgs' as they turned the place into Stalingrad on a smaller scale. 


  With a return to conventional war fighting and a high possibility of operations in the future being against a well armed enemy. Have NATO troops after 15 years of Hesco enclosed 'safety' lost the art of digging in? I think so. While you may have a chance to dig down to stage 4 in Kenya or first encounter if you're a Rupert, this skill seems to have been cast to the wayside as British and American forces are focusing much of their efforts on rapid armored long range reinforcement. A few examples of this is with the US dragoon rides across Eastern Europe and the creation of strike brigades in the future for the British Army. 

  Little time, training and money has gone into a revision of defensive tactics since the end of the Cold War. But if a few underfunded Ukrainian soldiers with little combat engineer and combined arms support can bring Russian backed forces to a standstill imagine what could be done with a NATO combined arms battle group? I'm not envisioning NATO creating a Maginot Line in the Baltics and Eastern Europe. But by giving these troops the tools and the training from a dedicated and well supported assault pioneer platoon, the digging and building of well constructed defenses and in the rural and urban could save lives in the event of any future conflict again a conventional or hybrid threat enemy. A soldier has always taken cover, wether it was in the saps of a medieval siege or behind primitive wicker bales in the Crimea or Hesco on Herrick. NATO is losing the art of force protection and area denial. 


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Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Hussar Tactical HT Sentinel Belt

Hussar Tactical HT Sentinel + Soft Loop Belt

  • Cost: £££ (£39) GET IT HERE Belt shown is Olive green and the same specifications as the one reviewed!
  • Value for Money: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Construction: 4
  • Allyness:         4
  As a matter of habit I wear a riggers belt on a daily basis.  Mine is double thickness, as it was originally bought as a gun belt, has a Cobra buckle and a metal loop for attaching myself to all the many helicpoters I ride in……





  Given that I wear a similar belt every day, I was interested to see Hussar Tactical’s offering.  Alex from Gen Kit Exchange has lent me one from his stock from the pop-up kit stalls they will soon have at some of the UK Garrisons.  So watch out for that!  


  Firstly the buckle.  AustriAlpin Cobra buckle, utterly bomb proof!  I am a big fan of these buckles.  All the benefit of a solid metal buckle that has a 4000 lbs breaking strain with the convenience of quick release.  They are serious bits of kit and the buckle probably makes up most of the production costs on the belt.  So although the belt is £36, Hussar Tactical won’t be making an enormous profit on it.


  Secondly the belt itself.  It is 45mm wide (think PLCE belt width) so is comfortably sized for uniform beltloops and will fit jeans fine too.  There may be some issues with “non-tactical” brands of trousers if you are planning to use this as a contractor.  However, Hussar Tactical do make these belts in 38mm width too.  
  The stitching is excellent throughout.  Neat, straight, well finished and well reinforced at all the relevant stress points.  I also really like the way the tail of the belt has been finished off in a very neat rounded shape, it shows great attention to detail.  


  A significant point to be aware of with this belt is that it is single thickness.  So, if you are looking for a belt to mount a holster straight to, it’s not the belt for you.  This belt is best suited to go inside a MOLLE sleeve if you are looking at it to mount kit.  Hussar do also make a really good looking Riggers belt called the Defender that would be well worth a look for mounting kit directly.


  Another feature I liked was that instead of a really bulky metal loop, like you find on a rigger belt, it has a soft loop instead.  This makes the belt much easier to take on and off.  It also means there isn’t that really annoying little tab that holds the metal loop flat when it isn’t in use.  All the benefits of a tie-in point without the faff and bulk.


  The belt I received is coyote brown with a black buckle.  The colour will be a great match for MTP, so should be Raz Man friendly.  You can also buy this belt with a coyote coloured buckle if you want it to be uniform (did you see what I did there?) in colour.
I have already mentioned the Cobra buckle, but the rest of the belt is made from equally high quality materials.  The belt comes in coyote brown (black or coyote buckle), black (black buckle), olive green (olive and black buckle) and grey (black buckle).  


  The belts are generously sized.  I received a medium which is described as fitting a 33”-40” waist.  I am a 34” waist and the tail of the belt comes to the 4 o’clock position on my waist.  Unlike many similar belts there is plenty of loop velcro for the belt to attach to, so you won’t be forced to cut it down and have a long tail dangling about.


  Overall this is a really well made bit of kit, constructed using high quality materials.  It is also manufactured in the UK.  Their range of belts is well worth looking at as they have something that caters for pretty much any need.  If the don’t, they also have a custom belt service.  I will certainly be talking to them about a double thickness belt with a plastic Cobra buckle to make life easier when I’m travelling through airports.  



  To sum up this is a great belt, ideal for going inside a MOLLE sleeve if you want to mount kit.  It is bomb-proof construction using high quality materials.  I would say that if you are in the market for a top-notch belt Hussar Tactical are the people to go and talk to!  You can get them here.


  This Kit Pest Review was written by Ben OToole. Hopefully you enjoyed it and if you have any thoughts or comments related to this article then leave a comment! 


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Sunday, 2 April 2017

How/Why GKE exists, Part 2


Why GKE Exists, Part 2

- An early GKE meme

...So I scaled it down. A website is much less expensive to build than a native mobile marketplace app, so I started again but changed 'mobile app' to 'website'. As long as the quality and functions were still there, it made sense. As I keep saying, it turns out... A fuck load of people want to build websites for you, I made the same enquires but decided i'd go closer to home to make sure I could monitor the quality in real life rather than Skype and dodgy bank transfers. I went for a number of meetings with website developers and for a fully functioning but still limited MVP (I had no idea what an MVP was until just before the coach journey so without insulting anybodies intelligence it's a 'Minimum Viable Product' which keeps cost down and gives a 1st generation of said concept). Estimates ranged from £5,000 - £15,000. Now this was more my price range, still a massive stretch however but I could probably save up or get a bank loan to get it developed. But this was still a significant sum of money for a concept that could only really be tested if it actually existed. I knew kit was being traded via traditional FB groups, which cemented the fact that there was actually a place for this and seen as though nothing, quite, like this existed then I saw it as a natural progression of that concept. 

Super legit GKE business cards -

  Now the next bit is a little mixed up but i'll try and stick to the main points. I spoke with some mates about how I was going to raise the start up capital required and a good mukka, Teddy, suggested I could try and crowdfund the money to get it where it needed to be and a hell of a lot quicker. Enter 'Kickstarter'. I'd only heard about Kickstarter once or twice but it's a huge website that enables anyone to create a campaign complete with a home page where all the funding takes place. Unfortunately they take 5% of the total goal as their fee, which is an amazing business model, as literally millions of pounds are raised each year. 5% of millions of pounds, is a lot of fucking money for a bit of software. So that's where I was at, I spent the next few days working with Ted to create the campaign and dedicated myself in becoming a crowdfunding 'expert', or as much as I possibly could. After many hours of deliberation I'd decided that £8,000 plus personal contributions of £2000 was going to bring a good quality MVP to market. Another thought I had was that if I was going to use the great community around the project then I had to give back any way that I could, I wanted GKE to have close links to military charities as that just made sense to me. It doesn't quite yet, the only reason being i'm limited to what I can do with the site but in future versions and as it develops there will be a lot more work that's related to giving back and helping out, however, there is a link to the Lance Corporal Nicky Mason Memorial Fund which you can find here.  The campaign went live and within a few days had raised over £300 which was amazing. However as usual, a spanner in the works. Only this time it was a good one.


 As the majority of us are well aware selling MOD issued stores is very illegal and can bring some serious penalties on anyone that wants to try. From the outset I made sure people were well aware that GKE would not be used as an envoy to sell kit from the Q man. However, there will always be chancers that try and ruin it for everyone. I needed some legal advice and a set of professional terms and conditions for the site. Now how the fuck do you get that? Turns out it's quite simple, I stumbled across a solicitors firm, Mincoffs, in Newcastle and rang them up. They offered a free, one hour, consulting meeting to ascertain exactly what is needed of them. Mega, I really didn't want to pay a lawyer an hours wage to tell me they couldn't square me away so this was perfect. I headed on down and had a really helpful meeting with Antony Hall, Head of Commercial and Partner. During this meeting he gave me endless numbers of, hopefully, useful contacts that could sort me out in various ways of grants and advice. He also decided that he could sort out the T's&C's and register GKE as a pukka gen business for a decent price for a skint squaddie, and I'll always be grateful for that. As it turns out there is absolutely fuck all grants available for people in my situation as I was still serving and wasn't trading yet. He did however point me in the direction of an 'accelerator' programme ran by Ignite.




 I'd never heard of an accelerator before but it's 'Europe's #1 network of angel-led accelerators'.  This is the tagline on their website: 'We're Ignite and we're here to help entrepreneurs grow, make a difference and build businesses people love.' I'm not going to lie, I didn't really know what that meant but luckily for me there was a cool feature where I could book a 15 minute sit down with Tristan to see if it was for me. Here's that saying again... Turns out, he's the fucking CEO and kind of a big deal if you want to get on an accelerator programme, which I found out afterwards. We both decided there and then that GKE wasn't ready for one of the programmes just yet, but in definitely wasn't a waste of time. He raised some great points as I tried to look like I knew what the fuck was going on. I'll add at this point that I do realise that I might sound completely naive and
literally clueless but be assured, countless hours were spent doing research and familiarising myself with terms and opportunities I knew very little about, and after all i'd never started a business before and all the reading in the world can't give you the experience that can be gained from doing things that you're probably not ready to do yet can bring. Back to the point. Tristan suggested I create a simpler strategy such as a reviewing feature or similar and left me with these wise words 'If you're paying more than £10 for a bit of software for a marketplace, then it's too much.' That one sentence put the cogs into motion and got me thinking. Surely there MUST be some software that enables me to create a marketplace that's already available? Well fuck, turns out there was. I found out there were a few different ways of using business' that only goal was to give you a marketplace that's easy to use and not going to break the bank. These were going to be more than £10 a month but I thought that without creating another boring 'Military Kit Buy and Sell' group on FB then this was my option. Why hadn't I come across this sooner? I've no idea, I'd done hours upon hours upon hours of research and hadn't found these but now I had, so I began to decide which was best to use. 


  This is so fucking true by the way - 



After much deliberation, a site called 'Sharetribe' came tops in all of the different categories so that's what I went with. It's pricing plan is based on a tier system that focuses on how many users will be on the site, this can be up or downscaled accordingly which is great. Anyone can make a marketplace on Sharetribe and if you spend a bit of time researching and gaining knowledge on how best to use it, it can be a Godsend for anyone wishing to create a marketplace. Lucky me, I was that 'anyone', but the Kickstarter's goal was still at £8,000, I no longer need this amount so the only option was to cancel that campaign and start a new one. A definite hurdle but not one that would be the end for GKE. As all of this was happening I was still furthering my knowledge into crowdfunding and what made campaigns successful and what didn't. Here we go again... Turns out, that the name has a lot to do with it. I can't remember the exact article I read but It was regarding the name of the campaign. It said that it needed two parts; the name, and a value proposition. What the fuck was this guy on about? He was basically saying that titles with a value proposition add to the 'average' crowdfunded demo graph and form a large chunk of whether or not they decide to 'pledge' to a project. So instead of 'Gen Military Kit Exchange - Mobile website application' which was the first title and had no real value proposition, I changed the new one to 'Gen Kit Exchange - the first military kit exchange!'. This was fitting into my new knowledge and one of the other major bits of information that I took away was that over 80% of successful campaigns had a video to accompany it, and I was going to do everything possible to try and make this a successful one. Shit, I didn't have a video. I didn't have the money or contacts to use proper equipment or camera crews but I did have a shiny iPhone 7 and some willing volunteers... 

The GenBomb Flag -


Stay fucking tuned for the next instalment of the GKE story! Share, like, comment and as always, stay frosty - Alex


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