 So people are really what the Army strength is. So it's always a chance to learn and also a chance to teach. It was a tremendous opportunity for the battalion to really get after some true expeditionary readiness. Because I think the benefit of doing this is the uncertainty. It's safe to say that folks look up to the American Army and it's safe to say that sometimes we are amongst peers. This is really what's important as we operate in that type of environment. Being able to build those relationships on the ground really creates a generational change and really reinforces the partnerships that we have. But more importantly, I think for our partners, just our presence there and participating in this operation is building that trust and confidence that we are there by their side. So we worked with the Australians, New Zealanders as well while we were in Australia as well as the Indonesian and Malaysian Army. So we worked with our Thai counterparts and then also with our Philippine counterparts when we got down there as well. So it's a chance to teach what we know as our aviation standards and also a chance to observe and learn what they do to see their equipment, to see how they're training. There's all kinds of challenges that we were able to work through and I think that's the beauty of the Pacific Pathways mission is there's a lot of uncertainty and it challenges your leaders to work through the uncertainty using adaptive problem-solving skills, especially for our young leaders. The Malaysian jungle really can't be replicated anywhere but in Malaysia, so it's being on the ground there. Give us the opportunity to really feel the stress of some of the challenges that the jungle presents logistically, communications-wise, really across all war-fighting functions and really give us an opportunity to really work on some of those challenges and come up with some solutions at the tactical level. So we know where we're going and we know when we're leaving but it was really a challenge to figure out all logistically how to make all those moving pieces synchronize, not once, not twice, but for me as an aviator, seven times. We moved seven aircraft, two CH-47s and four UH-60s and one HH-60 and so we island hopped down to the island of Panay. Typically we would have run out of fuel in a situation like that but it was a joint exercise coordinated. So we received fuel from Marine Corps Osprey and Air Force C-130 and then meanwhile while this air movement was going on to the island of Panay, Marines being carried by the Navy did a beach assault, seized the airfield, Air Force set up air traffic control and brought us in and then we postured for a hybrid air assault the following day. I would grade our unit as doing very well so probably A, A-minus but I think the great thing is we're a learning organization, all Army units are and just the ability to go out there, go on this deployment as part of the pathways. You bring those lessons learned home and you know our ability to grow from that as a formation, it's made us more lethal, it's made us more ready and so you know while I give it probably an A-minus what it's allowed us to do is later on build off of that and bring the unit to another level which is what we are trying to do always because we have to be ready to go at any time. You know you say well we really could have done some things better and you know kind of like hey guys this is about a C we're about average but by the time you do it you know for the third or fourth time in Korea you're like we have got this lockdown we are in A plus no doubt so you keep the good things you flush the bad things you pass on the information and you just hope the organization stays well-oiled when we got on the ground once they clearly understood our capabilities then they they were able to just leverage those in a greater manner and the same goes for our understanding of their capabilities so I mean that's again one of the larger benefits of the Pacific Pathways is understanding each other's capabilities and being able to leverage those. Our partners bring a lot to the fight and we can learn a lot from them and as these soldiers move forward you know I heard those discussions going on and the barracks later on about how appreciative they were of that experience and that opportunity to get out there and see that and it's going to have an impact on the formation for years to come. One of the big benefits of Pacific Pathways like I said in addition to really getting us into expeditionary mindset and the development of young adaptive leaders was the demonstration of the range of diversity that the Pacific Theater presents geographically culturally linguistically really us being able to go through these three exercises consecutively on one deployment really demonstrated to us the the range of different challenges and opportunities the Pacific area presents. So I know that our leaders grew both professionally and personally from this experience and I know a lot of them would they speak very highly of it and if they get the opportunity to do it again they would welcome it. As we look forward to developing a expeditionary mindset it's operations like this Pacific Pathways that are going to train our leaders how to keep that expeditionary mindset give them the skills to which succeed in austere environments and it's going to make our formations more lethal. That's the brilliance and the magic of pathways not only are you getting this readiness but continuing those relationships that just you know help the region help strengthen our partnerships is pretty amazing.