 The Patriot Master Gunner course is currently being held in Japan for the first time. Taking the course to the war fighters and giving them the experience and knowledge where they're going to implement it directly. The students are expected to have the capacity and knowledge to be able to certify crew members on drills such as prepare for movement and emplacement and air battle management levels of the Patriot weapon system. Air defenders across the Indo-Pacific region are gaining an advanced understanding of air defense operations standards and doctrine. I'm attending the Patriot Master Gunner course in order to uphold the standard within the air defense community ensure that I'm learning and passing down essential information and guidance towards those future leaders and ensuring that atmosphere of betterment towards others and the organization as a whole carries on. These expert skills are necessary to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific region. It's important that these students understand the standard to be able to train the soldiers to the standard because the units stationed here are forward deployed and are tasked with a real-world mission with the threats in the Indo-Pakum area. The Army Master Gunner advises commanders in the development, execution and evaluation of weapons training. To be a master gunner is being a subject matter expert. People come to you and expect you to know what right looks like and if you don't know the right answer we're the right place to look. This is Sergeant Raquel Burke reporting for the 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade.