 The objective of this training is to get the Battle Group 22 ready for deployment. Everything from weapons qualification to command staff operations to mortar firing and expertise to tank operations. We have several medics here teaching them CLS, care into fire and some more advanced medical training. We've talked to the Ugandan People's Defense Force medics and trained them last week in tactical combat casualty care, so that we've trained the trainers if you will. And then this week is a combat life-saving course where we will go over basic combat life-saving skills with their line members, so infantry, platoon members, etc., teaching them basic medical skills to assist their medics in an event of mass casualties or in the event of significant trauma on the battlefield. The strength is important because 90% of combat deaths occur before soldiers get to a hospital. And it's often the first line responder that saves that soldier's life. Depending on the studies you read, up to 25% of deaths on the battlefield are preventable and attributable to three main causes. Hemorrhage, tension pneumothorax and airway obstruction. So we're teaching them skills to put place tourniquets, put chest seals on and needle decompress the chest and put alternate airways in to hopefully save those lives that we can, so we can get them to a field hospital and get them to the surgery they need. With this group we're going to be doing a lot of patrolling and security movements and counter IED awareness. So just as they're walking through and doing their patrols and convoys, they're able to spot signs of IEDs. This IOD portion will help keep them alive, it's a big threat and so they'll be able to spot signs and hopefully keep them and their fellow soldiers alive. Specifically I'm here to supervise civil military operation cells within the battalion and battle group staffs. Currently I have a CMOC that's collecting information from civil affairs teams on the ground so that they have integrated information flow and real life training. So now things are better than before. That's why I can say that we appreciate what the U.S. government is doing. It teaches us by teaching our soldiers skills which we've not known before. I'd say overall it's been a good training iteration. The training that UPDF is receiving is a hundred to a thousand times better than what they started out with. UPDF and AMSOM have been partners with us in the fight against South Shabaab in eastern Africa. If we're confident in their training here then we're going to be confident in their abilities to help us out on the ground in Somalia.