 I'm First Lieutenant Justin Lindstrom. I'm from Dallas, Texas. I'm an 0202 and 0203 ground intelligence officer, MacDuff intelligence officer. So we are currently conducting battle space surveillance company field exercise. This is intended for two parts. The first is for our meteorologic and oceanographic platoon to gather real world sensor data with their weather forecasting equipment. That enables them to create real-time weather products, real-time weather analysis, so they can assess the enemy and assess effects of the weather on friendly forces. The second portion of this field exercise is for ground sensor platoon to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance mission planning, infiltration, five-face reconnaissance and surveillance, execution of schema maneuver and mission planning. It also enables ground sensor platoon to conduct basic skills and prerequisite infantry requirements so that they can conduct sensor emplacement operations in a remote environment, in an austere expeditionary environment, while conducting distributed operations in accordance with the Combinance 2024 design. All of the Marines are out here for a purpose. They're out here to learn how to fight. If those Marines come out here and they don't understand the basic fundamentals of what it takes to conduct offensive operations or defensive operations, they could very well find themselves in a COC somewhere in the Indo-Pacific area and find themselves in contact with without the basic skills and the basic understanding of how to maneuver. That's the purpose of this exercise out here. The purpose is that every Marine is a rifleman and every Marine should be able to be able to fight, take the rifle and go close within destroy the enemy. So within Battlespace Surveillance Company we are collectors. Collection is a key part of the intelligence cycle. Once you gather information, you can take that information and analyze it, produce it, disseminate that information to a commander. Once that information that you have collected is given to a commander who can make a decision on how to follow on friendly forces, how to shape the Battlespace, that's when it becomes intelligence and that's what we do out here as collectors. We're doing things that are difficult. We're putting Marines in situations where they have to make decisions. We're putting Marines in a position where they have to collect on a notional enemy, on a real enemy. It doesn't matter. What matters is that the Marines are being trained in how to do their jobs out here. As Intel professionals and within the MIG, our job is to make sure that our Marines are ready for the next fight because it's coming and when it comes we have to win. We are training to conduct expeditionary advanced basing operations, to conduct distributed operations, to conduct independent operations. Every Marine is able to collect. Every Marine is a collector. The future of the Battlespace involves maneuvering in other information warfare operations.