 This is Corporal Samantha Hall, porting in from Joint Forces Headquarters. The Task Force is conducting a Deployment Readiness Exercise, or DREE, in preparation for America's worst day. A chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear event on home soil. Training event, training event, training event Task Force Center. This is a training event only. A notional event has occurred. The mission of the soldiers is to respond within 24 hours of such an event that assists local, state, federal, and tribal partners in saving lives, preventing further injury, and providing critical defense support to civil authorities. Such a rapid response requires ample practice. Today, the soldier's ultimate task is broken into an N-hour sequence, starting with the notification of disaster, or N, plus the amount of time following. At N-plus-one, or within an hour, each soldier must acknowledge they received a notification to their respective NCOIC. At N-plus-two, each soldier must report to their designated rally point. The N-hour sequence that we're on right now, we are currently at N-plus-one and a half in response to a nuclear detonation in the area of Seattle, Washington. So currently, we are loading all the A and B bags, the deployment bags for our soldiers here before we move out to our rally point. Well, N-hour one consisted of contacting an NCOIC, and N-hour two consist of us packing our bags and getting ready to go to the JFHQ parking lot. So right now, we're just here to report until N-hour two is over and then we're taken off. We hit our first time hack that we needed. All of our soldiers reported acknowledgement of the RAVE message, which is our message for notification of an incident. Very proud. We've been doing a great job so far, but we're going to knock this out of the park for sure. We're at the Reserve Forces Training Center in Lansing. So we're on an N-plus-four hour sequence. So we're just getting ready, getting stage to move, ready to respond. We are on N-plus-five right now, and we are on route to Southridge via convoy. So this is N-7.5, and the convoy just arrived at Southridge Air Base. Right now we're on N-hour N-plus-eight, getting ready to depart out to the location that we have to be at. So far it's gone very well. We hit every time that we needed to hit, and so far they're positive, they're excited, and they're ready. One thing is I'm proud of all of them with everything they do. Even with the changes we would get back and forth, they just stick to it and they go. Task Force 46 has proven successful in their first test of readiness to support the nation. However, more exercises will follow to prepare for the day we hope will never come. From the heart of Task Force 46, this is Corporal Samantha Hall reporting in.