 My name is Corporal Stoddard. I'm a 0621 transmission systems operator. So this CPX was mainly a proof of concept. We're testing our new gear that we haven't used before, trying to figure out new ways to utilize it and finding the most efficient way to use that gear. So we're making plans, testing them out, see if this is the right plan. If that's not the right plan, we find a different method. What the ant hill represents is, obviously it's on a smaller scale for the CPX, but what it would represent in a real life scenario would be, it could be from half a mile away to the actual COC. And basically with all this common equipment, it emits frequencies that the enemy might be able to track or pick up. So what we do is, we have it far away from the COC that way. If the CO, sorry Major, are in the COC and the enemy does pick up, they'll attack this ant hill instead of the actual COC. So basically we set up all our equipment in the ant hill. Everything that we're using to communicate with the other units, that would be in the ant hill. This Tampa, that's what pulls services from the satellite for all the data and networking services. So that would be in the ant hill. And then we'd run it through cables like this or CAT 5 into the actual COC so they could pull those services into the COC. Well basically since we have everything remoteed in the COC there would be a radio operator on shift in the COC and they would be communicating with the people from the other units. What we did with the Bravo node was we took a JLTV and we escorted Workhorse 6, Workhorse 9 to Camp Schwab. So that was the movement. So what we needed to do is provide tactical comms along that movement. So we don't have full capabilities to do every single net on the move. So we strapped on what we could. We utilized HF, VHF and IW to have tactical comms on the move. Okay so HF stands for High Frequency Waveform. It's more reliable across long distances. VHF is very high frequency. It's good for a line of sight communications. It's what we would use in the closer quarters. And then Integrated Waveform, that's IW. It's a type of SATCOM communications. So that is also really a very reliable across any distance pretty much. Alright so my name is Joseph Olavarez. I'm Lon's Corporal in the United States Marine Corps. And my MOS is a 1171, War Support Technician. And I've done a lot of cross training on electricians and generating operations. Alright so my main role here in CPX or Jungle Workhorse is to learn the job of an electrician in 1141. And so my main role is to get power from the generators into everywhere on our field op and keep that consistently running without dropping. And so I got this job opportunity by just allowing myself to kind of go with the flow, ask a lot of questions. And I'm very open to learning new jobs and my higher ups seen that. And they're allowing me avenues advancement to actually learn what other jobs do and how important it is. Do I see it? This is very good, like filled out to be on. Because with all these positions and everything constantly changing, like the Marines have to be able to adapt. And even if you don't like know something, you have others there with experience to teach you something. And it helps you grow as an individual. So when we set up our generators, we go we make sure all of our cables are connected nice and tight. Everything's running nice and neatly where no one's in a trip on it. Everything's organized if there's an issue like a cable gets pulled or something. You could see exactly where the problem is and you could track down like where like what happened. And if there's like a like something shuts down like say one of the generators ran out of fuel. We have what's called a micro grid setup. So if one generator goes down, like if there's any issue with it, another generator will pick up and start making power in place of that one without losing power to the main operations inside the COC. And so our jobs as an electrician is to go around, make sure everything still has fuel. All the connections and everything are still stable. And that there's power gain where it needs to be without any disruption. As well as checking our AC units, what we call our booze. And make sure that there's no debris or anything that got sucked into the intakes or anything like that, which could also mess up the electricity. So collaboration is key. If you don't have like, if you're not communicating with everyone to your left and right, it makes things go by a lot slower. It can make a task that just takes a few minutes take like an hour. So it's really good to communicate and everything. Make sure everyone's doing what they're supposed to be doing. And if something happens or you have to go move on to the next thing, you let someone know so they know where you're at. First Lieutenant Ziv. I'm currently serving as a watch officer for the combat operation center. It's my responsibility to ensure the smooth functioning of the wash floor and the continuous flow of information in the commander. So what this does is it enables him to make a decision based on a complete up-to-date assessment of the battle space. We're out here at the Jungle Warfare Training Center executing Jungle Workhorse, which is a command post exercise for CLR 3 to practice our command and control capabilities while serving as a logistics command element and where required the MAGTF command element. So we're out here at Jungle Warfare Training Center executing Jungle Workhorse. It's a command post exercise for CLR 3 to refine our capabilities to conduct command and control as a logistics command element and where required the MAGTF command element. So it's important for us not just to ensure a smooth functioning wash floor and a streamlined COC, but as well to stay mobile. So we're practicing here transferring command and control from node to node and ensuring a rapid tear down and re-establishment of COC operations to enable ourselves to stay light, agile, and mobile degrading the enemy's ability to target us and ensuring success in the future operating environment. So as we execute Jungle Workhorse we're establishing a COC by more traditional means than many people have seen before establishing tents, utilities, and a very in-depth comm structure here. We're also rehearsing our ability to transfer that over to a Bravo node, a Jump COC that's consisted of JLTVs and a much more expeditionary COC environment. Within that we're refining transitioning back and forth so as we tear down our Alpha node or more traditional tent-based COC, transferring that control to our Jump COC and then re-establishing that Alpha node as quickly as possible this whole time ensuring that we never have a loss of command and control in the environment. So the focus on the light footprint really centers around our Jump COC and that allows us to rapidly transition our control to that Jump COC that's more mobile degrading the enemy's ability to target us so we can tear down and re-establish our COC in different locations rapidly without allowing the enemy the ability to target us. So as we transfer over we split our staff sending a reduced footprint with the Bravo node but still enough to maintain that control with that Bravo node. Slightly reduced com footprint but again still enough to maintain that command and control long enough and conduct effective operations before we can re-establish the Alpha node with the full suite of capabilities. In a real scenario we could see this as we go out and establish our Alpha node and we get some type of intel that the enemy is targeting us or we've been here too long and don't even want to afford the enemy the ability to do that so what we'll do is we'll push out that Bravo node that Jump COC consisting of JLTVs and that will allow us to establish command and control somewhere else while we can tear down our primary Alpha node and re-establish it somewhere else where the enemy isn't expecting us.