 RTP stands for Artillery Location Training Program. It's an opportunity for forward deployed forces or FDF batteries that are attached to 312 in Okinawa as part of the unit deployment program to actually come forward into a training environment, exercise in expeditionary logistics and then practice going forward and performing our core artillery competencies to come forward here and be able to train on mainland Japan. The terrain is different at almost everything that we have to take into consideration for operational planning from the employment of communications to distribution of our actual how it serves within the position as well as the local terrain and the weather that we're used to operating with. So it provides an opportunity for us to demonstrate that we are truly an all-weather, any kind of place capable unit. My name is Kobo Rubin-Kario. My moist is 0-11. I'm a howitzer section chief and I'm from Hayward, California. My role as a howitzer section chief is to supervise my Marines and to make sure they perform their duties in a safe and timely manner. My gun crew is like a family. Training in different environments definitely helps us build that bond, that family bond that not a lot of people get. So our mission as Marine Artillery is to suppress, neutralize and destroy the enemy while providing timely and accurate fire support to the maneuver element. The weapon system that we use is the MiG-777 Alpha II howitzer. It fires a variation of one five five millimeter shells. It could be smoke, fragmentation or illumination. The training we did was valuable. It pushed us to our limits. Training under extreme cold weather conditions but Marine Artillery requires you to be mentally and physically strong. There's no room for errors so you cannot be undecisive or timid. So the FTC is the fire direction control center. We're essentially the brains of the artillery operations while we have our forward observers. They're the eyes and then our gunline who's the the brawn they're the muscles. So we're gonna receive either a grid or a direction or distance from the forward observers and they're gonna pass that down to the fire direction control center. We're gonna take that and input it into either our digital means of computation or our manual means. We're gonna push down to the gunline and that's gonna make sure our rounds land safely, accurately and timely. Better than phenomenal to come out here deploy forward from Okinawa over a thousand miles in a matter of hours using both sea and air and then to consolidate and combine our strengths in our camp bougie and begin exercising in the scenario. It's a tremendous feat. At the end of the day the small unit leadership really shine out here for the past 10 days. The young NCOs, the sergeants taking charge of their individual house or sections, taking charge of their vehicles and vehicle sections and pushing out log trains and being able to run all of that concurrently is really only seen to be successful when you have a collection of individual actions and people doing the right thing in the right place at the right time with the right supervision and I think that's what we saw over the last 10 days which is incredible.