 I'm First Lieutenant Erica Blevins. I'm the 9th and 2nd Engineer Construction Company Executive Officer, E-R-I-K-A. So currently we're constructing, we have three different projects. Our first platoon is working on the stationary armored targets. Our second platoon is working on a UAS strip. They're also helping with the stationary armored targets. And our third platoon, which is our vertical platoon, is putting up the target storage warehouse here on the Criblack training area. I think it's important that we build the alliance and we learn from each other. We improve our interoperability. It's not every day that we get to train with other countries. We do a lot of training on our own, but we learn a lot more from other countries than the North Macedonians. No one army is the same, so we learn a lot from them. They learn a lot from us and we're able to work better together that way. The alliance is important because we learn a lot from the soldiers of North Macedonia. No one army is the same and so they learn from us and we learn from them. And through that we're able to build better interoperability and we can work with each other better that way. The purpose of Defender 21 and the exercise that we're conducting here in North Macedonia is to really create that interoperability with the soldiers of North Macedonia. We get a lot of training out of the construction projects that we do, but the biggest thing is building that partnership with our NATO alliance. So the soldiers here, a lot of these missions we have never conducted before. So the construction of the Sats, we're learning from that project because we haven't done a project similar to that before. The warehouse is a wood structure which we don't usually get a lot of training on. And so just that repetitive training will make us better stationary armored targets. I would just like to give a shout out really to all the soldiers. The soldiers that are working on the projects, I am fascinated every day about what they're able to do. Their achievements are incredible. They come out here, they do projects and missions that maybe aren't exactly the same as every other project and mission that they've done before. And regardless they're always able to get the mission done. They're always able to find a way around any kind of roadblocks that we run into or hiccups. They're engineers, they're extremely flexible, they're adaptive, and it's really awesome to see them work so hard every day and see their project come to light. So really just the soldiers, we are nothing without them.