 If the first thing you notice about San Gregorio training area is the desolate terrain, dry heat and dust that gets everywhere, you're not alone. And that's the point. It's a place in the Spanish desert where combat veterans feel right at home. This Spanish soldier is a four-time veteran of Afghanistan. If that weren't enough, he's on the unit bomb squad and he says he's had to diffuse his share of bad situations. Today he's got the attention of Spanish troops preparing for a possible upcoming deployment. He shares everything he can with them because this may be his one chance to train with them all year. The training is going on here is the Spanish are doing their annual engineer training event where they're bringing representatives from every engineering unit across their army. Brandon Cave is a U.S. Army major with the Joint Multinational Readiness Center and what these Spanish engineers are preparing for, he's seen up close. I'm here to observe the training events and then just make recommendations to them and how we can always make training better and just to kind of share TTPs with the Spanish and gain information and all of them as well. I find that you learn just as much from them every time you work with them as they learn from us. So it's always a privilege to work with them and it's always interesting what you learn. They've been over these drills more times than they can count because when the time comes they may only get one shot. It's better to learn here than learn in Afghanistan. Much as it resembles where they're headed, the desert here can only teach them so much. The rest they'll have to learn from each other. Just the future warfare and the next conflict I'm going to bet I'll have Spanish stand beside me, I'll have NATO members stand beside me and other members from ISAF will probably be right there with us. So it's just the future warfare in my mind. For U.S. Army Europe, Jesse Granger, San Gregoria training area, Spain.