 Training alongside the Marine Corps and the JGSDF really is eye-opening to see different ways that the military conducts itself. It was interesting to see that the Marine Corps, this is one of their normal trainings. You're out there for two plus hours and you're trudging through bamboo and up and down hills through rivers and climbing almost sheer cliffs it seems and making sure you don't fall. It really put into perspective how strenuous it is to go through the jungle like that. As a soldier and as a leader I think this is a great opportunity to enhance our relationships of our you know fellow Marines as well as the JGSDF. With that joint bilateral training I feel that we're strengthening our relations here on Okinawa. We're building that relationship of our Japanese ground self-defense force. The Marines I'm learning their tactics which is give me a better knowledge if we were to work in a joint environment. Learning from them is just putting more tools in my toolbox if I'm ever in this type of environment.