 I'm Sergeant Macy Brogan. I'm with Bravo Battery 121 Field Artillery out of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and I am in a High Mars as a crew member. Hi, I'm Sergeant Ryan Reno. I belong to Headquarters Battery 121 Field Artillery High Mars. I am a 13 Juliet and a 13 Mike, so fire direction and on the launchers. My name is Staff Sergeant Dustin Richards. I'm from Kenosha, Wisconsin. I'm with the Alpha Battery 121. I'm the High Mars Chief for my truck. High Mars stands for High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. High Mars is meant to provide artillery support to units in need with a longer range than what a cannon unit would provide. It also allows us to get to and travel to different points to provide that support rather than being stationary in one setting and allow us to have that high mobility that is required in the combat zone. The mission for this annual training period is to get everyone qualified on all of our weapons, our standard M4 weapon as well as some other standard ones like the 50 cal 249. But the main one for us was the live fire event, so making sure that we could test all of our launchers in a firing exercise, see if we have any failures and which ones are shooting fine. The uniqueness with this training period, especially this is a place we've never been before, so everyone's experience with like say like Fort McCoy where we always go kind of goes out the window. Everyone's at square one trying to figure out where everything goes or where everything is. So that's unique. Usually you always have someone's like, oh yeah, I know where this range is, but here it's like, yep, we have to bust out the map and figure out where we're going. I'll remember just because everyone was working together as a true battalion effort to get to where we needed to be. So I thought that would be a pretty memorable experience. Because everything is so new, different firing point, different direction of fire, all that stuff, we are able to incorporate that into our training and retrain on stuff rather than reusing our same place that we did at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin that we normally go to. Daily life, tick checks for shirks. We're out here in the woods. We've never been up to Camp Ripley in Minnesota before, but we get up, we get our trucks up and running, get the panels on, we do our comms checks to make sure we can talk to one another and we can talk to the POC otherwise we're not getting any missions. We roll out, we do some practice missions and then when it's live fire days we go, we pick up our rounds and we get on the firing point and we wait for the commands to fire. When all that's done, get the tonnage, come back, shut everything down and we go to bed. Then obviously during range days we're all over-placed. But we're running, we're working hard and handing 10, 1 o'clock at night. It's a good hard day and we like it. Well the most memorable thing for me that's happened this AT was shooting my first rocket. Being ready, feeling my stomach drop as I'm about to hit fire and I call up a 1-1 shot and my head slams against the door. We're wearing helmets so it didn't hurt and my jaw dropped. I was like, oh my goodness, that's what it feels like to shoot a rocket. That was awesome. Let's do it again.