 My name is Jeffrey Leonard. That's J-E-F-F-R-E-Y-L-E-O-N-A-R-D. I'm a major in the United States Air Force and I'm the Red Flag Alaska 2023 team chief and by trade I'm a C-130J instructor pilot. So I'm going to provide a brief overview of what Red Flag is all about to help hundreds to help set the stage for what we're conducting here over the course of the exercise. So Red Flag was conceived in 1975 as a result of unacceptable performance by the Air Force in the Vietnam War. We had a very high kill ratio of our own aircraft in relation to enemy aircraft and so an analysis conducted after the Vietnam War discovered that most combat losses occurred within a pilot's first 10 combat missions and so Red Flag is a way to provide our young aviators their first 10 combat missions in a combat-like and safe training environment so that way by the time they deploy to combat it's like they've seen it before. So we're looking for a combat-like training environment to provide our aviators with some experience to make them more lethal in combat. So Red Flag was originally conceived at Nellis Air Force Base but in the 90s there's Red Flag Alaska to service the Indo-Pecom AOR was moved from Clark Air Base in the Philippines to Isleson Air Force Base of North and Fairbanks. So we have a distributed operation. Red Flag Alaska is operated from both Ellison Air Force Base as well as Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson. Most of the fighter aircraft are based on Ellison and then we have F-22s as well as big wing intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft like the E-3 as well as airlift and air refueling aircraft that take place or that operate out of Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson down here in Hangridge. Sure so the exercise is organized into blue forces which are the participating personnel squadron units that are here to train the exercise as well as and we have the opposing force called the Red Force which is comprised of the 18th aggressor squadron based on Ellison Air Force Base and the way that we structure it is that the blue force trains against the Red Force and in the middle we have the white force which is the exercise staff who facilitate the execution of the exercise. What we do is we take the squadrons show to the exercise with some objectives that they would like to achieve while they're here and what the white forces role is is we compile every squadron's objectives and we build a scenario that helps them achieve what they're trying to learn from the exercise.