 During Exercise Fruckus 2013, sailors from France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the U.S. trained together to build better relationships between the four nations. We want to increase interoperability, establish frameworks of partnership and friendship so that when we do need to go to sea together we've done it before and we've learned the lessons ahead of time and we are ready to respond. Between operational and tactical trainings, the sailors were able to come together and complete the mission. My sailors responded very exceptionally well. I thought all sailors of all the nations came together quite well. You cannot surge friendship, you cannot surge trust. So by doing these things ahead of time, when it's not a crisis, when there's not something to manage, we can build those things. On board USS Nicholas, I'm Petty Officer Ryan Seelbach.