 Gunner Sergeant J.R.S. Sigra, 3rd LSB. Actually it is. It is my first time here in the Philippines and the experience, you know, since we landed in Subic and then now here in Casaguran, it's been it's been amazing. So here as a senior mortar transport enlisted, I'm a chief for 3rd Landing Support Battalion. Once we got to Subic, we've assisted in the MPF offload where it consisted of myself and my mortar T operators basically offloading over 100 plus 180 plus vehicles and equipment from the from the doll from the ship. And then fast forward a couple weeks later, we came out here to Casaguran where we did beach operations, in-stream offloads over at the pier as well. So this actually has been the first time, especially here in the Philippines for my guys. I know a lot of my junior enlisted, this is their first offload ever. First time deploying overseas to any country besides Okinawa. But a lot of the things that they've been doing these past couple weeks, it's their very first time doing this. I think this applies to CJA Lots because like it's in the name itself, it's a joint effort. You have the CEBs here, the Navy, Army, Marines, everybody works together to get you know the mission accomplished and that mission was to show that we're capable of you know offloading gear and equipment, rolling stock from ship onto shore at you know at a fast pace. I think this plays a bigger role because not a lot of people see it but these trucks that we're offloading, especially the trucks that we offloaded in Subic, they get spread loaded across Philippines, the different areas of operations where other units in the Marine Corps, Army, whatever branch is out here in Balagantan, the gear that we offloaded in Subic gets put on tractor trailers and then gets spread loaded across the entire island. So I think this applies to real life scenarios because you know we're still stuck in the you know combat, the desert combat scenario where this, we're on a whole new island, it's never been done before. I think what the Marine Corps is trying to do is it's taking us back to what our ancestors did, our predecessors did during the island hopping campaign in World War II. So a lot of this offload that you see you know you see the vehicles coming off these LCUs, the other craft, water crafts that the Navy provides, it just plays a really big role in you know what's to come. I actually think this is really perfect for the first time, if I'm not mistaken this is the first in-stream offload that's been conducted on this side of the Philippines. I think they should keep it like that, maybe open up more beach landings and just not this beach landing right here, but I think it worked out because they gave us the opportunity to utilize the beach landings along with offloading gear over at the pier and that allowed my Marines, my motor transport operators to be able to conduct little convoys through the Filipino towns all the way here to the staging lot you see behind us. Oh absolutely, I think Balacatan you know it's in the name itself, it's working together with the Filipino, getting our relationship stronger with them and you know the stuff we do here you know they've been here this entire time assisting us and I think it's just great to start that relationship up with them. We just conducted a convoy which consisted of a few tactical vehicles that's you know never been done by the Marines before here in Philippines pretty much proved to a lot of people that you know we could conduct convoys from shore to inland which we did in a day. We took out you know a few Humvees set up a tactical convoy and then we traveled you know through the mountains of Philippines through the Sierra Madre Ridge stayed in Delacruz for a day and then came right back and with what we did with you know a few tactical vehicles it shows it shows a bigger picture that it's doable. We could conduct beach landings and then take our vehicles instead of using you know contracted civilian tractors we could drive our vehicles up to wherever is needed in the Philippines.