 The battalion is going on just over four weeks here in Okinawa, started mission operations about a week and a half ago. Currently I have just over 560 personnel deployed across both 3rd Fleet and 7th Fleet AOR. Just over 500 of them are here in 7th Fleet. I have 10 sites spread across the Pacific AOR, as far east as Panay Philippines and as far west as Guam. They were doing everything from humanitarian operations within the Philippines, building schools and clinics, all the way to mission support facilities within formalized bases on Japan and here in Okinawa. One of the advantages my sailors have is we are forward deployed and the liberty and some of the opportunities they have to see, some of the cultural things is amazing. For the first term sailors, this will probably be one of the few times that they have been outside the U.S. and have an experience with the local cultures and the local people that you won't get anywhere else. We build, we fight. Contramus, Battamus.