 Soldiers from the nation of Kosovo have been conducting U.S. Army training with the Iowa National Guard for the last two years and are now currently deployed with the 3654 Support Maintenance Company. So every state national guard has a state partner nation and ours is the Republic of Kosovo. That relationship started in 2011 and it really focused on NCO military development, sustainment, logistics operations, and domestic support operations. I am from the engineering unit, engineering regiment from Kosovo Security Force and we are attached here to the 3654 SMC, National Guard Iowa. The same duties that we have here, the same work I do at my unit down in Kosovo, so we are maintainer mechanics. We maintain the vehicles of our unit and a little bit this is what we do. These two particular Kosovars came to us in early 2019. They came to the state of Iowa and they went through MOSQ school for to be 91 Bravo's and with the plan all along to bring them on this deployment. Actually it's been pretty good working here. I'm learning new stuff and I had the opportunity to be one of the soldiers of the first soldiers that are deployed here from Kosovo. For me it is great and I am very honored that I have the opportunity to work with the United States soldiers. So this is the first time the Kosovo Security Force has deployed outside their country borders especially in support of Operation Spartan Shield. So we're very fortunate to be able to spearhead this type of relationship between the Iowa National Guard and the Republic of Kosovo and we're just we're super excited for where this is going to take our relationship in the future not just with three six five four but other members and units of Iowa National Guard. This has been Sergeant Amy Norton 101st Division Sustainable Brigade reporting from Camp Bearing Toys.