 Exercise Phoenix Express 2016 comes to a close off the coast of Greece on the island of Crete. The event is a multinational exercise with stakeholders from Europe, North Africa and the United States. We were able to train and certify a number of different nations from North African nations with the participation of Southern European nations in vessel boarding, search and seizure. The ability to go out and based upon an intelligence scenario, find a suspect vessel, localize it, identify it, track and then be able to hand that across from one country's area of responsibility to another area of responsibility. The goal of the exercise is to improve cooperation, information sharing and operational capabilities all in an effort to improve safety and security in the region. I'm Petty Officer, on the Eastern Andes, Suda Bay, Greece.