 I'm Corporal Clayton Philopovic and I'm here with the gear now I'm at Camp Palatins X514 and I'm about to learn about the power walk. Here with me now is Dan Hepler who's an engineer with bionic power and sir can you tell me a little bit about what we're looking at here? This is our power walk knee based energy harvester and what it does is while the marine is walking it generates power and that power can charge batteries. Now this is my first time actually putting the equipment on and trying it out and I gotta tell you it's still flexible. I can I can take a knee on it I can go ahead and just jump and the best part about it is the flexibility. A lot of people think that it looks like a knee brace and really it's kind of the opposite so I'm joined by Lance Corporal Phineas Hunt who's actually a recon marine that came out to test the equipment. Now can you tell me a little bit about what you liked about the gear? They're really comfortable and what this thing does is it charges batteries on the go so it's gonna be awesome to not have to have all that weight on my back and instead have these cool like robot legs down here. How comfortable are they and what would you do to improve them? It feels pretty good. The only thing that's a little uncomfortable is these straps kind of chafe a little bit in the back but I was talking to the guys they said they just threw that on and they're working to fix that. So they obviously have some things to work on and I'm sure the developers will take all the feedback into consideration now. What does it mean to you that the Marine Corps is actually taking your feedback and trying to improve all this gear? I mean you hear about too many times where they test equipment out on people that aren't ever gonna use it. I mean especially like in the recon community or any grunt community we know how the old gear works and how it doesn't work and how it sucks in certain situations so it means a lot that they're actually you know finally trusting us with being able to do that and they're gonna get a lot more feedback and a lot more use out of testing these prototypes and a lot more good critiques. Alright thank you so much appreciate it. Yeah no problem. The best part about X514 is that Marines can offer their feedback on how to better equipment like the power walk. Thanks for watching guys we'll see our next episode of with the gear.