 As a reservist in the Australian Army I never would have imagined I'd find myself on exercise room of the Pacific working with our partner nations like we're doing currently. I grew up in Perth, Australia, and I've always been around the water. I've always been close to the coast So it's great to finally have a job where I can work on the water in the water and around it So it's a pretty good gig all around So far on RIMPAC we've been teaching other partner nations how we do things with our small boats How if they come along with us they can integrate into our team and how we do things and how we use our craft It's been a good opportunity to share our knowledge and skills with some other nations and learn from them as well as they teach us how they do things Small boats are important in the Australian Army because it enables us to operate in the maritime environment We can force project and transit people from ship to shore or shore to ship And as well as a variety of other operations and tasks can be enabled by what we do and how we do it It's been great to take away some new skills and knowledge from my time here so far It's really good to be working with the guys who do this every day So I really want to take back what they're teaching me so I can pass that on to my mates back home And we can keep building our capability there My name is Private Jack Green. I'm an advanced small craft operator in the Australian Army on exercise RIMPAC 2022