 ARTP is an agreement between the Japanese and the U.S. which provides 3rd battalion 12th Marines the opportunity to use some of the premier maneuver areas and training areas throughout Japan. It provides the Marines some different geographical challenges to meet and adapt to. It also provides the opportunity to practice all the other skill sets that we would need in moving forward at the crisis response. We practice embarkation, combat logistics, the essential live fire training that we do here but also field training and combat medicine, maintenance, repair, supply so all the essential functions that keep us moving forward as a battalion we all get the opportunity to do out here as part of the ARTP.