 Peter Arnsdorf, P-E-T-E-R-A-R-E-N-S-D-O-R-F. My name is Captain Peter Arnsdorf. I am the Aviation Maintenance Officer with Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron 262, an Osprey Squadron out of Marine Corps Air Station Futama in Okinawa, Japan. So my role in ARC-21 exercise is to serve as the aviation combat element liaison officer and lead planner. Basically what that encompasses is conducting detailed coordination with the Japanese and the French regarding their ground tactical plan and integrating in aviation related assault support aircraft as well as any aviation related fires into the exercise to make sure we conduct a safe tactical execution. ARC-21 is a multinational exercise involving the United States, Japanese, French and Australian forces both ground, air and maritime components of it. The exercise is designed to increase interoperability within the Indo-Pacific region as well as strengthen our partnerships with these close allies. Overall the exercise consisted of a two-day staff planning exercise where we developed the ground tactical plan and then execution of that ground tactical plan over a two-day period. The overall concept of operations was a helleborn insert of Japanese, French and U.S. forces into an objective area and then an assault on an urban facility facilitated by intelligence collections by recon elements. So exercises like ARC-21 are important to the United States because it allows us to build on already strong partnerships within the Indo-Pacific region and share tactics, techniques and procedures and increase proficiency and readiness of our forces as well as the forces that we could be potentially operating with during real-world operations. It's been excellent being able to work with Japanese and French forces here during exercise ARC-21. It's been enlightening to be able to observe how both nations conduct planning as well as execution of their tactics in support of this operation and to be able to share how we execute such operations. So the highlight for me during ARC-21 has really been being able to observe how we as a multinational force during this exercise have reacted to adversity as well as changes to the scheme of maneuver in response to changes in the enemy situation as well as inclement weather. It's been very rewarding to be able to work alongside the Japanese and the French as we come up with alternate courses of action in order to continue to progress through the exercise as changes occur.