 Lieutenant Colonel Chuck Beese, I'm the battalion commander for 1st Battalion 68th Armored Regiment at their Brigade Combat Team 4th Infantry Division. So the last few days out of Meal No Range, my alpha company, which is a tank company, was participating in a force-on-force situational training exercise and a live-fire exercise with a Polish Army, German Army, as part of the Karakal exercise, which comes underneath the umbrella of Defender Europe 22. The first portion of the exercise was situational training exercise where our tanks and our vehicles put the miles training system on, conduct force-on-force training as part of the Polish 10th Mech Infantry Brigade against a live op-4 or opposing force. And then the second portion of it was a live-fire exercise. I'll constrain more to Meal No Left Range, which involved a tank company from Alpha 168, conducting live-fire in conjunction with Alpha Troop of 410 Cavalry, artillery provided by the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, mechanized infantry from the Polish 10th Mech Infantry, German Leopard Tanks and Polish Hind D. Helicopters, Polish F-16s, Polish Sukhoi's ATGMs and man pads as well. I'm Command Sergeant Major Gary John Kurtzals and I'm the Command Sergeant Major for the 1st Battalion and 68th Armour Regiment, 3rd Armour Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Center Optibility. You know, at the end of the day, NATO is one giant friendly force that if needed and called upon is going to assemble and it's going to assemble through a lot of different nations providing critical combat capabilities to a multinational force. So, one arm battalion is very important to me, however in the big scheme of things, attaching them to a doing other countries C2 and employing them and sustaining them through staying combat operations is critical to how we train the force. This exercise was important for several reasons. First, it allowed us an opportunity, you know, being from Fort Carson. We don't generally at home station participate in many multinational training exercises. This exercise for the majority of our soldiers was the very first time that they have ever participated in a training exercise that featured training alongside our allied partners here in Europe. So, for many of them it was their first opportunity seeing in person what their armored vehicles looked like that were not just tanks and bradlies. It allowed them to experience coordination with our allies while working through the language barrier differences in how we approach tactical problems, our tactics, our techniques, our procedures. And so, for the majority of the formation this was a learning experience not just for us but also for the 10th Polish Mech Brigade as well. So, you know, it's also understanding each other's capabilities, what each of us can bring to the fight but it's also getting an idea of where, you know, what the limitations are and how we can use all of our respective strengths to compensate for weaknesses on the team to yield a stronger and more effective cohesive team.