 that's going to be fun because of the cold weather and the lack of knowledge with the the 320 we more of a familiarization out here to fire at the to zero first zero the weapon and then fire at the various targets through the four stations out here on the 320 range. Each soldier was issued 18 rounds of 40 millimeter chalk rounds so that way we can see where the fire hit and score them but we don't destroy the range. It's a little cold but that's all right we're bundled up between the grenades it's different but it's a good learning experience a little bit of a kick chalk rounds go up it's a lot of fun. For the the soldiers that were out here qualifying on the grenade range they have the M320 assigned to their weapons so that's why they were out here to qualify with those two. So basically what this allows us to do is it allows us to maintain the security of our operational area for chemical biological radiological nuclear surveillance decontamination and so that we can maintain the perimeter and security so that we can keep our soldiers and our equipment safe and just gives gives the soldiers a little bit more confidence in their ability to perform their chemical biological radiological nuclear tests. Go ahead. The soldier was issued 18 rounds of 40 millimeter chalk rounds. Okay I'm CW2 David Allen I'm the Seaburn Warrant Officer and a third platoon leader from the 704 Seaburn Company out in Harbin Hills Minnesota and today we were out here to uh we were spoke we were out here to qualify but because of the cold weather and the lack of knowledge with the the 320 we more of a familiarization out here to fire at the first zero the weapon and then fire at the various targets through the four stations out here on the 320 range at Fortwood Point Wisconsin. Tell us what the 320 is. The 320 is the updated version of the M203 the uh it's a grenade launcher that can either be fired by itself or it can be attached to the M4 and how many rounds did they fire? So each soldier was uh issued 18 rounds of 40 millimeter chalk rounds basically so you know uh unfortunately out here on the grenade range it's not too good for the range if we blow things up so instead of uh using an actual H uh high explosive rounds and HE rounds round we use chalk rounds so that way we can see where the fire hit and score them but we don't destroy the range. When's the last first time is this the first time these soldiers have fired this most of the time or? As far as I know this is the first time that most of these soldiers have fired this weapon. What's their reaction about? The reaction's been pretty good they're pretty positive pretty happy to actually get the uh piece of equipment out and fire it. So this is a chemical company how are you how are you involved in grenade launchers? Well for so even even being a chemical company we still have to know our basic soldier skills so if we get you know if we get overran or position it's overran or if we need the extra security that's where the grenade launcher comes in and just uh just overall area security. Okay and then what else have you done? Uh you talk out here so we uh so we came out here with the intent to uh zero the M4 rifle uh zero the M249 rifles the uh the assaults and they qualify with our individual weapon systems and then also for the uh the soldiers that were out here qualifying on the grenade range they have the uh M320 assigned to their weapons so that's why they were out here to qualify with those two. So that way when we leave this weekend we're completely qualified on all of our individual weapon systems. Okay and how many was this like a four day? Yeah four day four day drill. We drove out here on Thursday, come and went out to Port Levoix, got everything prepped. We came out here yesterday Friday and uh we we did the zero uh did the zero range and then uh we went over to the qualification range and then we continued the qualification range for the uh 24 the M4 and the M249 and then today we did the 320 range on top of that. Okay do you think that I didn't ask you that you wanted to tell American people? Uh you know thanks thanks to the taxpayers for spending the money so that we can be trained and qualified on our weapons and uh other than that uh no I think we're good. How does this make your unit ready? Uh well this this makes our unit ready for our basic soldier skills so that we uh it wouldn't call up to action we're prepared to uh defend the war or fight you know whichever you know so we can defend our soldiers, defend our equipment and then also too so we can perform our C-Burn operations in the real world. Say that again but tell us what C-Burn is. Uh C-Burn is chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear. Okay so they say that last sentence instead of say it C-Burn. Oh so about how this helps us. Yeah so basically what this allows us to do is it allows us to maintain the security of our operational area for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear surveillance uh decontamination and so that we can maintain the perimeter and security so that we can keep our soldiers and our equipment safe and uh just uh gives gives the soldiers a little bit more confidence in their ability to uh perform their chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear tasks. Okay, perfect, thanks.