 I'm Lance Corporal Clayton Phil Povage from the Corps Report, and I'm here with the gear. Now I'm at Fort Devin Naughty Base, and I'm about to learn about this beast. Now I'm joined by Kevin Brinkensporen. Sir, can you tell me exactly what you do here and what we're looking at? Sure, Clayton. This is the Legand Squad Support System, it's really known as LS3, and I'm the Chief Engineer on the LS3 project. And what you're basically looking at is a robotic pack fuel. So the real goal for this machine is to go where the dismantled warfighter goes and to help carry their load. So how does it stand up to like mountains, rivers, different terrain? Yeah, that's a great question, and this is really why we developed this machine is so that it would be all terrain. So we've tested stream crossings, we've gone to the mountains in 29 Palms, California. We've tested a lot of east coast woods and mountains, so we really are trying to go to as many different terrains as we can and push the mobility and the autonomy of the machine so it can keep up with the warfighter. So I'm really excited to actually see this thing in action. So can you gear up and give me a demo? Yeah, let's take it for a walk. All right, great, let's do it. What can you tell me about the different functions and modes that this machine has? Well, it's a good time to ask because we're in one of them right now. So this is a leader follow mode, and this is kind of the bread and butter for how LS3 is really going to operate. The idea is that, you know, you can see I'm not really distracted by the robot right now. We're able to have a conversation or I could be doing something else. But effectively, the robot's following the stripes on my backpack and using me as a guide for working through the terrain. If you get in a tight pinch, you can also directly control it with a joystick. And then we have a fully autonomous mode, which is go to wave point. So you can tell the robot, you know, go 100 meters that way and the robot without any driver or leader will autonomously work its way to that goal point. So how can this be effective for Marines? Well, the main idea for Marines right now is as an offloading capability. So, you know, dismounted Marines typically carry around 100 pounds of gear between body armor, backpack, food, water, ammo. And the idea is for us to get that off the warfighter and really improve the warfighter's mobility, reduce injury rates, and generally improve their capabilities. So, you know, ideally you could take a lot of the equipment that the warfighters carry through long foot patrols and put it on the robot and have it carry the gear for them. The LS3 is still on development stages to make it more suitable for Marines. Thanks for watching, guys. We'll see you on the next installment of With a Gear.