 The BAS figured out how to turn breadcrumbs. To have breadcrumbs on a piece. So, there's a lot of missions set. Five foot wide, 7,000 pound vehicle. It's going to trip whenever. Additionally, you guys are asked to do a DV day. And let's be 100% honest. Good. Let's do it. So you have pot points, right? You're just going to short halt for a moment. That's all there is. So, keep that in mind. First, if you have a heavy weight on it, that's awesome. What do you guys need to be concerned about when you're building this mission set up? We're just talking about it in and out of park. I'm Lance Keegan-Walters. I'm with Victor 1-2, Charlie Company. I'm a team leader and I'm from Middletown, Maryland. Out here today, we were testing a new UGV, which is an unmanned ground vehicle with the Marine Corps coming from Marine Corps Warfooting Lab, Quantico. And so, basically, we're becoming skilled operators of these vehicles and hopes in the future with the 2030 Marine Corps infantry plan to employ them in future battle spaces. The events we covered today, we did a box reconnaissance mission with an autonomous setting on this UGV. It decreases the danger for infantry Marines possible, like IEDs or just enemy in the AO. This is doing kind of that job for us. And then, also, the casualty evacuation, which is obviously very crucial for us. So, we head down an MSR and picked up a casualty, brought him back just simulating what that would look like in a kinetic environment. I expected, by trade, I was an assaultman, so I'm very happy to see that like we did, the EMAP has breaching capabilities and makelicks, so a lot of big explosions you can shoot rockets, all sorts of weapon systems with the crow system that will be put on it. So, 50 cows, Mark 19s, 240s, Bushmaster, chain guns. So, there's a lot of exciting things coming to the Marine Corps with the EMAP system that we're all excited to see. I definitely feel that we met our goal today. Just getting hands on and feeling comfortable with route planning and just operating the machine as a whole. Everybody's become extremely confident with it. Yes, 100%. Especially by 2030, this is just the crawl phase we're in right now. So, moving forward, there's going to be unlimited capabilities with UGBs and really reduce the in-person troop footprint and fire superiority and also just going to save lives too. I'm Dr. Matt Vogelsong. I'm the robotics and autonomy branch head for the science and technology division at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. So, the vehicles that we have behind us are the EMAPs or the Expeditionary Modular Autonomous Vehicles. And they were really designed from the ground up, probably starting in about five or six years ago to begin to represent what future tactical unmanned ground vehicles could look like and to give us a common platform to build off of to begin to develop TTPs and new technologies. So, TTPs are tactics techniques and procedures and SOPs are your standard operating procedures. So, robots are going to operate differently than humans and so we have to begin to understand what that means for the Marine Corps of the future. So, the EMAP is a it's a 7,000 pound vehicle it's 5 feet by 12 feet it can carry 7,000 pounds it's a series hybrid electric so that means that it's actually an electric vehicle with a diesel 10 kilowatt generator essentially inside of it that charges that electric battery. So, it can operate as a mobile COC it can operate as a litter carrier to autonomously evacuate casualties it can operate as a fires platform it's really no different than any of the Humvees or the other trucks we've had in the past, right? So, the vehicle itself is important but it's less important than what we're actually putting on it. Those war fighting functionary things that we're going to put on it are really what's going to matter and change the battlefield. We're doing all this experimentation as part of Infantry 2030, right? That means a few different things for the Marine Corps it means that the Marine Corps Table of Organization, right? Or what how Marines make up units is going to change the TE, so the Table of Equipment so the equipment that's in the Marine Corps is going to change and that means that the way that we've operated in the past and in OIF is not going to be able to be the same way. The technology is new Marines are thinking in new different and innovative ways and so that means we have to start now to make sure we're in a good spot in ten years. So, we've got it down really to a science. So, for just a base vehicle operator for the vehicles we have behind us we can really do in about two and a half days. So, the Marines that we have here from 1-2 have been operating the vehicles since Tuesday and today, Thursday they're really doing full mission profile planning. The past couple days they've really just began to wrap their brain around what the operator control unit looks like so that is literally a tough book tablet that they plan missions on and that was yesterday and they got some basic vehicle fundamentals of just how you drive this thing and what it feels like to operate it remotely and then today really began to focus around real world potential missions of this vehicle to do. So, this morning they did a box reconnaissance of an LZ as part of an advanced party they later on did a casualty collection so patrol was out and they took a casualty and they autonomously sent a vehicle out there to collect a casualty and then bring it back to a casualty collection point and then we began to move in some of the more confined space around the woods in Camp Lejeune to understand how dense can you really operate this vehicle in. Marines always manage to surprise me we're an innovative group of people I spent 15 years in the Marine Corps as an enlisted Marine so I like getting back to my roots and training other enlisted Marines and their ability to pick things up, be innovative be inquisitive and just want to do things in a different way to get better and faster and smarter and safer and more deadly they surprise me every single time it's always better than I had hoped it was going to be