 Joint STARS was a bilateral exercise with the Italian military. We got to integrate with members of their caribinary, their air force and their army in multiple training exercises. One of us was a joint personnel recovery, which is directly related to the main mission we're fulfilling here as the alert force. Joint STARS is important because it gives us an opportunity to work with the Italians, tactical setting all the way through from the planning process through execution, and it gives us a really good opportunity to see each other's ETPs and get a good look at how bilateral integration works. Joint STARS has helped enhance the capabilities of the Special Purpose MAGTF by letting us get reps at working with our partners, especially the Italians who are hosting us here. Also, we've gotten a chance at rehearsing our full mission profile for the alert force. It gave us a good opportunity to go out in real life and actually fly to an area and execute.