 Yeah, good afternoon. I'm Captain Matthew Golden. I'm the S3 forward for the 15th Engineer Battalion here in North Macedonia, Crivlak. So yeah, we're currently in Crivlak, North Macedonia, where we're executing three engineer projects in support of Defender 21. The three projects are the stationary armored target pits, which we're building in support of gunnery operations for some follow-on missions. Additionally, we're working a vertical project, which is a construction effort where our vertical platoon is going to work and execute a target storage warehouse facility. And lastly, a UAS airship or an unmanned aerial vehicle can land and take off. The Alliance is extremely important to us and it's an absolute privilege working with our NATO allies here in North Macedonia. In terms of mutual beneficial exercises and what have you, this really helps us build interoperability in terms of our engineer expertise between us, the North Macedoans, where we can trade techniques and procedures to improve our proficiency as well as their proficiency and of course build relationship for the future and to better the Alliance. So the 15th Engineer Battalion's purpose for the Defender 21 exercise is to set conditions for the follow-on missions. So us being here is setting the theater for our follow-on units to come occupy the space and execute training to execute kinetic, live-fire training areas within the Krivvileg training footprint. Additionally, we're setting the conditions for future operations, ensuring that life support and training capabilities are set here within this nation so that we could have future NATO missions execute in the area. Firstly, the soldiers are going to go back with camaraderie and spirit that will carry them through the remainder of their time here in Europe as well as memories that hopefully they'll cherish for their entire lifetime working in an international mission with our NATO partners. Additionally, they're going to bring back proficiency and their engineer skills and tasks that will again further better our formation in terms of being able to deliver our engineer mission set. So it's been an absolute privilege working with my counterpart in the North Macedonian Engineer Battalion. Major Georgiev, their S3 has been tremendous in enabling our ability to execute our missions as well as provide us some cultural experiences and understanding their culture and also giving us training opportunities and integrating their engineers into our formation. Again, this helps build our interoperability and will provide us with a set of skills and memories that will hopefully build on our current capability set. All in all, it's been a privilege to be out here serving and make a difference. I think serving in this capacity and providing the engineer capabilities we have here is improving the overall capacity here in North Macedonia. North Macedonia is the newest NATO ally as of within the past year or so and I know this is going to make this an attractive area for other NATO partners to come train and definitely follow on missions for the U.S. forces.