 from Burgundy. I'm Chevy Chase and you're not. This is the story of your first name, last name spelled for me, and a quick unit in doing my description. Well I'm Captain Sean Griffin that's S-E-A-N-G-R-I-F-F-I-N. I'm the commander of Alpha Company 1A and Infantry, third brigade combat team, 4th Infantry Division. Proud of the way you spoke Sean? Absolutely. Irish Heritage, great grandfather came off the boat back in about 1917, so. Um, as a commander, are there certain key points or things that you emphasize to your guys to get them to accomplish things like this? The biggest thing for us is focusing on the basics, getting really good at doing the little things over and over and over so that way when we're put in a time constrained environment such as this, it's not trying to re-figure out how to do it, it's more routine, just the timelines condensed. Okay, and what the condensed timeline, what did you see out in your soldiers to make all this happen? Well one thing the soldiers are extremely motivated to be out here, this is the mission we've been training up for the past year and so with the time constraint it really just came to making sure all assets kind of combined at the decisive point, rail offload, personnel arrival, container arrival, and of course for today ammunition and vehicles getting at the same place at the same time. One of the points that they really wanted to emphasize was once the range went hot the rounds got fired, I guess 801 was too late or something like that, so you kind of touch on that a little bit. The big key thing is when we say we're ready, we're ready. The soldiers have put forth great effort and we're out here extremely early, I think most of us woke up at about 3.30 for an eight o'clock hot time just to make sure all the men or details were put forth and ready so that as soon as we were told we were cleared hot the rounds went down range. Okay, and is there a sense of pride being, I guess, I guess they call it like a historical moment, the first day to be doing such things like this, so is there a sense of pride? Now when we sit back and think about it, yes, but right now everyone's just kind of focused on doing their job, they're out here to do a job and do it well and then when we go back and kind of sit down at the end of the day, we kind of take inventory of what we've done and we actually do appreciate the significance of these events. What are you looking forward to your tour going on? Really the partnership with all our NATO allies, I've been deployed three times to the Middle East and it's really exciting to work with some of the nations that we've had partnerships with for the better part of a century and I'm really looking forward to working with those nations. What are some things you've noticed so far that may be different from what you're used to since being here? Humidity, oxygen because of the lower altitude. In terms of training ability, it's virtually the same as our home station, the weather we've trained in, weather like this, back in March, the equipment repair parts availability is similar to NTC, so it's nothing we're experiencing here is brand new. We've all seen it before at different points in our train up, it's just different times and different places we're experiencing these. After seeing your soldiers accomplish what they did today, any words for them? They're doing an outstanding job, all their families back home need to know that the training they've done this year has been completely worth it. They are turning heads out here, they are showing what they've got and making their families and their country proud. Anything you'd like to head to? Assault, Assault Company 1-8 Infantry.