 The Maritime Theater Missile Defense Forum conducted the at sea demonstration 2015 on the North Atlantic Ocean under a multinational effort. So USS Mount Whitney is an enabler for this exercise. Our partner nations that are part of ASD-15 can be here to witness the execution of the exercise. Today we had a very important day. We worked very hard collectively with the MDM Forum. Many nations involved to make a next step in proving the concept of missile defense. It was an at sea demonstration where we proved that we can take out missiles. We can detect them at high altitude at the same time, which was a big step. I think it's extremely significant that we've demonstrated with a live test the ability of a flotilla of ships to simultaneously take out a missile threat, a ballistic missile threat, and a cruise missile threat that's never been done before. And in that sense it's historic and it's doubly historic because it's not just the United States Navy, but it's a group of eight nations that have come here with 11 ships that are totally interconnected and interneted that have demonstrated this capability today. The goal of the Maritime Theater Missile Defense Forum is to provide protection against the proliferation of short, medium, and long range ballistic missiles. Specialist Raul Pacheco, North Atlantic Ocean.