 My name is Lt. Colonel Steve Capehart. I'm the commander of 1st Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. Well I think what you see today is live fire accuracy screen test for the M1A2 main battle tank. What that does is that's basically just like firing your M4 carbine but with 120 millimeters. It's meant to zero our ballistic solutions to ensure that they are ready to fight. I think it is because if you look at the amount of time we've only been on the ground less than 10 days. 10 days when we were already conducting a live fire screening action table showing that we are building combat power rapidly and the speed of assembly that comes with it. The power of the 120 millimeter is this amazing and being able to get out here and show our system's work is what all is all about combat readiness. Yeah so we flew in from Fort Carson Colorado and rapidly already within really within 12 hours we had our main battle tanks our sustainment piece able to get it off the rail, start our prep to fire checks, build our load plans, conduct maintenance and then voila within 10 days we're already firing. Actually we maneuvered at eight days. We already had vehicles out here conducting maneuver, winters, drivers training get used to be able to take 70 tons of combat power and put it in this type of terrain. We've also worked multiple scanning techniques because it is different from the sands of NTC. So that has been really our train up for the past year we have gone through the most rigorous training an Armored Brigade combat team can do and we validated at the National Training Center so this brigade, this battalion is doing amazing as we build combat power so rapidly. So we're already building combat power here with our Polish allies however first battalion of the Sixth Eighth Armored has the honor of going up into the Baltics so we will eventually partner with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. So right now it is a 120 millimeter sable round training as well as the multi-purpose anti-tank round the impact round. It's fantastic I mean we've been training for this mission for the last year and I think it shows the agility of an Armored Brigade that can be able to push combat power forward build it and get it out here firing within 10 days. It's amazing to be able to see that and the support that we've received at echelon from everyone in the use for team has made this happen. So truly fantastic on that it's exciting soldiers are excited to be here it is a unique mission to be able to come here and partner with our NATO allies. I think it's fantastic as you look through what we're able to do as an Armored Brigade combat team and as an Armored Battalion we can deter any threat against the alliance as it appears as we rapidly build combat power which is proven here with the less than 10 days I'm already shooting my entire Armored Battalion. I got to thank the obviously the NATO alliance for allowing us to be here this is a fantastic training range and opportunity for us to get out here and build combat power and all the support our allies have given us. I'm just excited to be a part of this team so thank you so much for coming out and seeing my soldiers shoot today. Yeah so in a month we'll already be positioned into AR north so I will have I'll have the battalion positioned in Lafayette, Estonia and Lithuania and we will already already have got plans set for increased training for interoperability with our all three of the allies. We're actually going up to our gun table twelves platoon level live fire we're already nested in our my Charlie company will be marching in the 24 February Independence Day parade with the Estonians which we're honored to take part in as well so it doesn't end readiness doesn't end we'll sit here build combat power get validated ready to fight and then continue the mission