#FEDGOVTODAY: What is SOF Week in Florida (hint: Special Operations Forces) & What is to be done? Francis Rose, Fedgovtoday.com
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🗓️ 18 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CBS, I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:03.0 | Soft Week, Camp of Florida. |
| 0:06.0 | Francis Rose, the host of FedGov today is here to introduce us to Soft Week, and it goes bang. |
| 0:13.0 | Francis, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:15.0 | What is Soft Week in Tampa, Florida? |
| 0:17.0 | You've just returned. |
| 0:18.0 | Clearly you were not tattered too much. |
| 0:21.0 | What happened? |
| 0:22.0 | Good evening, John. Thanks for having me on the program. Softweek is an opportunity for special |
| 0:28.7 | operations forces, in this case from around the world, to gather and learn from each other to |
| 0:35.0 | exchange capabilities demonstrations and to generally work on the issues that each |
| 0:42.2 | of those special operations forces finds most relevant to its existence |
| 0:48.4 | at the point in time at which the conference takes place happens every May in Tampa as you mentioned |
| 0:53.9 | because that is the location of the United States Special Operations |
| 0:57.6 | Command closed to Tampa and so the Tampa Convention Center welcomes really some of the most incredible |
| 1:04.4 | displays of technology and military capability that I've seen in my 20 some |
| 1:10.8 | years of following the federal government and almost 40 years in broadcast John. |
| 1:17.4 | You had a very nice set for FedGov today and you interviewed your guests and you were surrounded by black walls. |
| 1:25.1 | So basically you were there to not see anything. |
| 1:28.2 | Is that correct, Francis? |
| 1:29.4 | Well, it did. |
| 1:30.4 | So the Special Operations Command and the Special Operations Community, as you rightly allude to jokingly, is very quiet, is very hush-hush, is very behind the scenes. |
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