 The GCE is the more conventional military operations like offense, defense, the boots on the ground type stuff that we're more akin to with standard military operations. Our main purpose in the Mew is two-fold both the crisis response ability as well as testing a lot of the key concepts and abilities that the Commandant has laid out in Force Design 2030 and it starts with the ground combat element. My name is Second Lieutenant Vince Everman and I'm a rifle platoon commander for Charlie Company. At the Mew level, the ground combat element is the battalion landing team which consists of an infantry battalion which has three rifle companies, a weapons company and a headquarters and services company. We have the ability to do a wide variety of missions. We can do anything from raids, assaults to security for a refueling point or an embassy reinforcement or an airfield seizure or a non-combatant evacuation while at the same time maintaining those more traditional military capabilities such as seizing an objective by fire and maneuver as well as the traditional security operations. We have an engineer platoon, we have an artillery battery including a high Mars platoon as well as a light armor reconnaissance company as well as some other key enablers such as EOD and snipers and things like that. We work along with the rest of the components of the Mew to conduct any and every operation. If we're taking aircraft, if we have air support, we need to coordinate with the planners from the aviation combat element. Eventually we're going to need some logistical requirements once we get ashore and it comes in the form of logistics combat element counterparts. We need certain things in order to maintain our combat power and maintain our combat effectiveness. We will be forward postured in the world so that if a disaster hits, we along with the rest of the Mew will be able to provide the assistance and the disaster relief that certain areas of the world might need. With the variety of capabilities that each component of the ground combat element brings, we have the ability to do anything, anytime, anywhere regardless of enemy presence. Whether it's in the jungles or in the deserts or in the mountains, we practice all of our skills on a regular basis from the rifleman all the way up to the company commanders so that when the time comes, rather than if the time comes, we know that we're ready to do with the Mew commander askelbuss and with the American people askelbuss.