 The German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge is a foreign award from the German Bundeswehr or German Army in which German soldiers and American soldiers here test physical, mental and partnership proficiency. So there's three different tiers that a soldier can compete for based off of the scores they get from all the events. The German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge was established in 1971 and was given out first in that year. And the overall concept of that badge is similar to the EIB, but our badge is more designed for the conventional forces and an overall proficiency check. It felt great, you know, it felt like all the preparing that I'd been doing paid off and it's a good test of our physical durability. I always want to push myself, you know, it seemed like a good chance to get some great PT and have fun doing it and a lot of people from my unit came out so we had a great time. The badge and the qualification, if we run the qualifications with international units or NATO partners like the US, helps us to establish and support the good relationship we have with the US and it gives us the opportunity to challenge ourselves and to tighten the bond between US forces and German forces.