 Send me. My name is Lieutenant Colonel Ben Mer, I'm the commander of 1st Battalion 9th Field Artillery, and behind me is Chosen Battery, and we're conducting battery qualifications. This is supporting our number one priority, which is leader development. This field training exercise is essentially a leadership factory that produces qualified batteries and lethal platoons and crews. The fire support enterprise works as a system. So we have forward observers, we have command posts, and most importantly we have our logistics with our combat and field trains, and they work together as a team. My role in this exercise is to actually get the targets, acquire the targets, and just track them and send them to the top, and let them know what we're tracking and how we're tracking and how many rounds are coming in. That's what the radar is for, to acquire targets accurately, efficiently, and making sure the enemy is defeated properly. We are observing their fires, so we are helping the paladins and all the batteries shoot their missions, and we will observe their rounds where they impact and help them create more realistic training. So we'll give them realistic target descriptions, and we spot targets out there and correct until their marks are on target and fire perfect. This training has been really good for me and my team. They're really excited to be training with the Bradley fire support team vehicle, and it's also gotten them a lot of more field time. So it's really good for them, and it's got them really motivated. Sustainment, we're on the back end. So we come up, once they fire out, and they, out of their ammo, we bring them their ammo. That's why we're doing this, what is called the R3SP, resupply, refit, refuel. So once they run out of that, we come up, we resupply them with ammo, refuel them, and then later on we coordinate a donage pickup, which is what you see we're doing here. So sustainment, we bring just that sustainment. So when these guys move, and they're taking more ground, more land, as they push through the enemy, when they move up, we move up. It's been an honor to be a part of the most modern brigade and the most modern division in the Army. As an Army we tend to focus on the material solutions for modernization. What the battery commanders are getting after here is the leader development and training aspects of modernization. Adjusting tactics, techniques, and procedures to be as lethal as we can. We've included the new kit, we've experimented, we find best practices, but ultimately leader development is the decisive operation that's going to allow us to be successful as a part of modernization. Micromio 4 6 4 7