 My name is Captain Jared L. Redinger. I'm the company commander for Charlie Company 1-2. Mostly over the past five days, we shut down the last forward patrol base in Helmand Province for the Marine Corps. It was a place called Patrol Base Bullen Dacke. It's a little bit bittersweet because Marines, having been operating out of there for about the past three and a half, four months, have made it a home. So they've learned how to live there. They've learned how to fight from there. So it was a lot of work. We were pretty proud of being able to shut it down without too many issues. However, Marines gave up their home. So we're back here on Leatherneck now. And the Marines are a little bit upset about it, but they're good to keep on fighting. The past couple of days consist of breaking down the interior of the defense, local security patrols, minor operations, and of course, manning the post around the perimeter of PV Bulldeck. This teardown means the big step for this unit, for the Marine Corps, towards the ending faces of this war. I'm going to miss the overall experience. I'm going to miss coming out here, being outside of the larger base camp Leatherneck, constantly connecting with the locals, communicating and just spending a different kind of deployment with my Marines. And for the mothers and fathers of the Marines in Charlie 1-2, definitely your kids did you well. Did you proud. Very impressed on a daily basis for these kids. They come out here and again and again walk outside the wire. They'll do a patrol. They'll get shot at, an RPG shot at them, they're patrolling in the IED zone. They'll come back. They'll debrief. They'll do their patrol debrief. They'll post-combat checks and an hour later they're getting a brief for the next patrol. The drive of these guys is incredible. The thing I'd miss the most from this place, probably the camaraderie, you know, because, I mean, you had day to day operations and stuff, like you were kind of, you know, a little stressful sometimes going through certain things and at the end of the day, that's all you have. You know, all you have is your buddies. This is home. This is home to you. And, I mean, who doesn't miss home, you know, sometimes. I would say the camaraderie, you know, the brotherhood, just being here with your buddies and knowing that this place was once, you know, a home to you. The Marines, I cannot be prouder of their performance and that's it. They exceeded my expectations for what Marines were capable of in that type of environment with respect to their discipline and the aggression that they were able to bring to that fight. The Marines and everybody down there performed extremely well in the face of the enemy, so they exceeded my expectations. It was good. It was almost something that we shared together and I'll never forget it.