 PV2 Benton Zachary, I'm a 12 bravo combat engineer attached to HHC-16 from 40th Engineer Battalion and we're out here to a support trolley company on their Cal Fex here. We're going to be reducing their obstacles. We've been doing a long train up for this, first squad sticks and then platoon sticks so progressing as we go along and as a private and coming straight from Linterwood, straight from basic training to be able to come to Navo CO, Bulgaria training center, it's awesome. There's people out here that have been waiting their first almost full contract and have been able to do something like this so it's neat to be fresh and new in the Army and this be the first kind of taste of what it's like in our training atmosphere. It feels awesome and it makes you actually feel like you're doing your job and you're doing what you're trained to do. I got awesome NCOs, I got awesome platoon leader and we've just been hitting it hard on training. It seems like every three weeks we're out here doing something or if we're not out here in the training area itself back at the barracks we are doing rehearsals or we're taking classes on how to better ourselves as 12 bravos as combat engineers. It makes me feel patriotic as all can be out. It's a great show of our force projection. We have combat engineers, we've got tankers out here, we have calf scouts, we've got infantry. This is the full force and letting our NATO allies know that we're here for the long run and we're here as a deterrent for any aggression. Holidays are coming up Christmas, I'd like to say to my mother Ann Benton, Merry Christmas to my father David Benton, Merry Christmas, I love y'all and I can't wait to get home.