 Exercise turning point is a large-scale exercise that the Navy conducts prior to their naval mobile construction battalions going forward deployed. During turning point what the Marines have done is we've taken combat engineers and EOD from the MWSS to come out and augment the CBs due to the fact that they did not have EOD organic to their units. What this does is it allows a lot of realism in the training but also it allows us to continue to develop joint TTPs and interoperability between the units which pays large dividends once forward deployed. The Marines and the Air Force have been involved over the last year and a half to not only enhance the Navy's capabilities during this exercise but also to continue to train side by side by our brother from the Navy and the Air Force. The biggest way that turning point aligns with force design on top of the experimentation is the fact of working with the joint force. We have three different branches working on a space force base which looks very similar to what might happen in a forward deployed area. We all know it's an all hands on deck mission to make sure that this happens and working with the joint force and having that interoperability is a huge key to success going forward. So exercise turning point is extremely important to the Marines because it allows us to come out here and integrate with multiple services to conduct airfield damage repair which is an extremely important mission to forward deploy. This also gives us the ability to practice what we have developed over time so that in a real world event it's not the first time that all these different entities have worked together due to the complex nature of this mission set. This exercise is very important in our ability to prepare for real world operations. The exercise is constructed to simulate as best as possible what we expect to encounter when we go forward. This exercise is extraordinarily important for NMCB-5 to demonstrate our ability to support the fleet. We exercise distributed operations with the joint force in order to demonstrate our ability to support the fleet when we go forward to the Pacific. The benefits of joint training during exercise turning point are really expansive. One line is it's how we will prepare to execute our operations forward today and going forward into the future just as we did in the past. Some of the unique benefits of the North Star training site here at Vandenberg Space Force Base is the fact that we are allowed to do live demolition airfield damage repair. This creates a lot of realism for the CVs and all parties involved due to the damage that it has created.