 Last week, members of the Tennessee Army National Guard arrived in Bulgaria as the first of many rotations from Tennessee who will be supporting Resolute Castle, which is a component of Operation Atlantic Resolve. Operation Atlantic Resolve is ongoing in Eastern Europe, emphasizing the Ironclad Treaty Commitment of the United States to its NATO allies by providing a persistent presence in NATO's Eastern European members. Sergeant First Class Michael de Morado of the Tennessee Army National Guard's 212th Engineer Company explains his unit's mission at the Novoselo training range. The mission tasked us was come to Novosela training area in Bulgaria. We're going to construct some covered shelters, ammo breakdown pads. We're also going to construct some ops and storage buildings for the training center here that the Bulgarians and Americans share for other tank and live fire exercises. We actually break the dirt, kind of get a general rough area for us to work freely. And then we actually have to put up our battle boards and construct it to a level ground so we can actually start forming up for concrete and to construct these buildings in future rotations. When faced with a delay in receiving some of their basic operating materials or BOM, the 212th engineers turn the events into a training opportunity. We had the delay in the BOM. What it actually gave us time to do is teach these soldiers that when they come in it's not just having a general rough area so we can start forming concrete, but some of the lowering lists was actually able to get out there when they see just grass and dirt and get into the horizontal side of it and see what needs to be done before we can even do our job. They got to understand the planning phases, the recon we had to do, and actually start turning dirt just so they can actually plan on doing battle boards and start forming our stuff up. We're engineers and we always kind of adapt and overcome. They gave us an area where we found some materials that we could reconstruct to what we need, so they gave us the opportunity to come down here and get some other training so these guys can actually tear something down, not just this. It's just miscellaneous rough lumber was in there, a bunch of stairs, platforms, areas like that, and we were able to just piecemeal what we needed to. We're going ahead and tearing enough down so not just our rotation can be employed, but the next rotation will be able to come in and already have that stuff completed. So that way they don't have to come here, tear things down, start over, kind of like a production assembly. The more we start and the more we can do since we're already on ground and tearing everything up and getting ready for the next rotation when they come in there, they'll already have some stuff pretty much ready for them to start rolling on. Work continues for the 212th and other members of Tennessee's 194th Engineer Brigade's first of many rotations here in Bulgaria in support of Tennessee's partner in peace and operation Atlantic Resolve. From the Novo-Celo training range in Bulgaria for the Tennessee Army National Guard's 118th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, I'm Staff Sergeant Lila Walker.