 All right what's different this year about African Lion is for the 79th Theater Sustainment Command is we're deploying our early entry command post and so that allows us to practice and rehearse that and then you know this is my second African Lion and so last year I deployed here or was supposed to as this expeditionary sustainment commander but COVID occurred and COVID still impacts this exercise particularly as we were preparing and getting ready for it and less so as we're here with our vaccine and our number of soldiers are vaccinated that allows us to really have a lot of freedom of maneuver and how we exercise. The impact of the Army Reserve soldier is absolutely huge all the sustainment here is planned executed by Army Reserve soldiers so when a soldier arrived here the first soldier they actually met was an Army Reserve soldier they're the soldiers who are scanning everyone in they're the ones who are in processing them they're the ones who are housing them they're the ones who are feeding them here and overseeing those operations. Again Army Reserve soldiers are unique in that they have usually two careers their army career and their civilian career so a lot of our civilian careers will actually help us we have logisticians we have FBI agents we have others we have I have a IT person who does IT every day for another government agency some of our sustainers do logistics every day and so they bring that they also bring the skills some of them may be in international corporations they may have already actually operated in this area. A couple things I want soldiers to take away from African Lion any soldier is again you're here in Morocco what a great country what a great partner nation as you're here you get to experience a part of the world that most people never get to see again you also get to experience working with other nations and those soldiers and now you begin to understand the strengths they make the and we have to understand that you know our way is not the only way and there are many ways to accomplish our tasks and so these international partners allow us to understand those. I serve primarily because I know it's such a great gift to serve in the United States Army our nation brings a lot of strengths it allows people and we welcome people from everywhere in the world and so I want to be part of defending and protecting that again one of the things I'd like to say is you know again this allows this exercise allows our Army Reserve soldiers to work with our active component soldiers and so hopefully as we work together you know some of the the understanding even between the components of our own army disappear it allows us to work together understand each other's challenges understand how they operate and then make a better team that's what African Lion's about it's about making a better team inside our Army inside our joint force and inside our coalition. Okay.