 Alright sir, you're just going to look straight at me. Can I have your first and last name? Josh Taylor. And how do I spell your first and last name? J-O-S-H-T-Y-L-O-R. And what is your rank? Lieutenant Colonel. And your unit? 213 Infantry Battalion. And your position or title? Battalion Commander. Sir, what's going on this morning? Well this morning we're conducting the first pilot ship from a basic training combat battalion to an advanced individual training battalion since the stop moves been put in place. How many soldiers did you have out here this morning? 423. And where are they all going to? They'll leave from here, they'll go to Fort Lee, Virginia. Okay, so we understand that we kind of had to hang on to these guys after they graduated because of the COVID-19 pandemic that's going on. How has that affected your unit? Well it's been instrumental but it's been a good learning experience as well. It didn't just affect the soldiers that affected the cadre and how the cadre continued to deliver effective training while changing things to create space for social distancing to do the preventative measures to mitigate against the risk of COVID-19. For the soldiers themselves, they've gone through basic training so they're no longer trainees, they continue to be a soldier in training but they're now soldiers. So it's giving them, our drill sergeants, pivoting to give a little bit more control back to the soldier so they can take a more active role in their learning experience. So I imagine for the past two weeks that things have been a little bit different for these soldiers and I imagine that there's been a lot of cleaning going on. Can you tell me about cleaning the areas that these guys live in? To a large degree, right? Because our best measure to fight against COVID is cleanliness, right? It's not only social distancing but sure when we're washing our hands and sure when we're keeping our areas tidy, wiped down, that's been a large piece of it. In particular the last two days, they've basically gone through and done a GI cleaning of the entire barracks not only for their own safety but to prepare for the next group of soldiers that are coming in right behind them. Do you think that all these measures that you have taken not only with personal cleanliness but cleanliness of their living spaces and their working spaces has helped you guys not be affected by the virus? Absolutely, I think it's played a large part of it. We can control only the things that we can control, right? So there's still the risk of it injecting from somewhere else on the installation but we've taken our active measures to mitigate the majority of that risk and more so to keep training, right? Because that's been important because we've got to maintain morale at this one for the soldiers and themselves. How has the morale and discipline been for the soldiers? Extremely high, extremely high. If you look at overall what they've been asked to do, right? And bear in mind a lot of these soldiers were a National Guard or reserve component and they thought they were going to come here for 10 weeks, they're going to take a break and they're going to go to their eight week advanced individual training or 10 week advanced individual training and some of them are going to start school next fall or go back to their families or do some other things, right? Army wide, we've been under the stop movement. So they've not been able to move on to their advanced individual training which they could look very inwardly and think about what was me but they've not been like that. They've absolutely soldered on, they've embraced it, the resiliency they've shown throughout, the effort they've given toward training, to getting better at PRT, at physical readiness training to the effort they put into their individual classes and really just keeping the morale up of each other throughout. It's amazing to watch. So you've talked about in the past few weeks that these guys have been kind of held over since graduation that your cadre has had to take additional measures to further their training. What kind of training have these individuals received? So some of it is a reintroduction of skills and tasks that they learned during basic training but we've tried to take it a step further and get to some more professional development training and some more advanced individual MOS training. So taking our MOSs, our military occupational skill sets from across the battalion aligning them with cadre that are in the same MOS and having some small group discussion of some of those classes and then we've taken a step further some of the things that they won't learn until they get to their first unit of assignment like how to read a leave earnings statement in LES, what TSP is, some of the financial classes, what ACS services can do for you, what the post services do for you, some of those things but also giving control back to some of the soldiers themselves to lead a PRT session to have a more active role in those leadership positions subordinate to the drill sergeants. Do you think that these measures are going to set these soldiers up for even more success once they hit AIT? I do at least and still them with a little bit more confidence and they'll be a little bit more physically fit and a little bit more polished by the time they get to AIT and then move on to their first unit of assignment. What went into setting this up today? I imagine that a lot of resources have wanted manpower and a lot of hours went into this. An extraordinary amount of coordination well above my level has gone on just to secure the move, to get the buses aligned here, to get the procedures put in place to sterilize the buses to have the soldiers separated to do the screening of the bus drivers, the screening of the cadre that are going to go along with them to Fort Lee. So it's been a full team effort. Absolutely. Sir, you have answered all my questions. Is there anything that you would like to add or anything that you think somebody should know? No, not at all. Thanks.