 I'm Captain Quinton Brooks. I'm the HHC commander for 1st of the 503rd, 173rd Airborne Brigade. We're here today at Eagle Socal 21 in Slovenia, Počak training area. Dog company is conducting section live fire. We first start out with a blank fire and then we move into a live fire execution where they essentially pull up to a firing position with their trucks. They use a tow missile to fire on an armor target and then advance forward to their objective where they have dismounts come out of their vehicles and conduct a battle drill 6 on a building, clear that building and then retrograde from the objective. I think the overall thing that the paratroopers are learning here is how to shoot, move and communicate with our partner nations. Support from TSC Vicenza has supported our training exercise by providing the products we need to become a lethal force to train in that lethal force that provide us with the targetry and the tools to use in order to create a tough and realistic training. This training builds lethality and readiness for my team by providing a unique area to execute this training in. Typically we go to different areas in Europe to train and this is one that's unique and that provides us an opportunity to get into the terrain you can see behind you, the difficult terrain as well as the dense vegetation to conduct some of our reconnaissance and our mortar fire as well as our section live fire with our dog company. The overall objective of Eagle Socal has a few components to it. First and foremost is the interoperability training that we get with our Slovenian partners. Secondly it's the key tasks that we have to train to improve our readiness within our unit to deploy, fight and win in any location as well as tough realistic training. COVID affects all training that we do as it has been a year now that we've been dealing with this virus. It's really the first exercise that we've had multinational attention to as this battalion. We've had certain mitigating factors in order to make this training a possibility. We really follow all the simple steps that we follow back in Garrison. That's staying within our bubbles. What that means is team, squads, platoons stay together and do not have close interaction with other teams, squads and platoons. We take other Slovenians when we need to work with them and that we limit that interaction and we maintain our spacing with them when we do have to work. We find interesting and different ways to get after the training in order to meet our requirements to get that interoperability.