 The mission of the 16th Sustainable Brigade is very, very busy. Every day I wake up excited to get out there and plan logistics. I mean, I honestly believe there's no better place to lead a soldier than Europe. Being in Europe is what I will consider for logistics is the leadership laboratory because we have an opportunity for soldiers and young leaders to come and develop. The ability to work with allies and to have leadership opportunities and the, you know, readiness, the chief staff of the Army's number one priority. I mean, you're constantly measuring your readiness and testing your readiness. The collective energy and the ability to execute our craft on a daily basis in a complex, ambiguous, uncertain environment, you take the Army operating concept and you look at it and we're executing it every single day. But over the past years there's been 51 battalion level and above exercises across Europe. We focus on Atlantic Resolve plus Ukraine, which is really Eastern Europe, focused on assuring our allies and deterring Russian aggression. I was able to take the broad requirements with the regionally allocated forces in late 2014 and link the heavy vehicle requirements, track vehicles, M1s, Abrams, etc., and realize that they needed fuel, transportation, repair parts movement to establish capability and capacity in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to receive repair parts, conduct transportation operations, store bulk fuel, transport bulk fuel, and manage movement control efforts across that region. And we've since extended that into the South, in Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. I would say most of the tasks that we do out in Atlantic Resolve really revolve around distribution and movement, providing freedom of movement and operational reach to the formations that are forward and to our allies. Probably the biggest impact one, the really that gives operational reach and operational access to the maneuver forces is movement control, though. And what movement control does is anytime there is a theater opening or a border crossing, their movement control personnel, they're directing traffic with the ships getting, pulling stuff off the ships at border crossings. Anytime a truck goes across a border, there has to be an 88 November, they're coordinating the diplomatic clearances. It takes a lot of planning with the movement control, but they have the theater opening mission. Our average convoy, moving in Europe, will cross four sovereign nations, just to get to the end destination. I always use the example of our soldiers carry five or six kinds of currency in their pockets because they might be in Poland one day, Czech Republic the next, and then going through Hungary and into Romania or Bulgaria to deliver supplies. We're very successful at it because we've been doing it for quite a while. And the more we do it, the more efficient we become at it. So it's almost like a muscle memory. Our junior leaders do things that is not typical of junior leaders for their time and experience in the army. For example, we have sergeants and staff sergeants and lieutenants driving 1,500 mile convoy, commanding convoy that's going through multiple countries, five or six, crossing four or five borders, carrying fuel or missiles. And when you have such junior leaders, you have to trust them that they're going to make the right decisions. And it's not uncommon for us to have a sergeant sitting in an embassy, you know, advising an ambassador and a staff on freedom of movement in that country. And when there's friction points, it is that sergeant who de-conflicts it between the country and U.S. forces. So we have a great opportunity to develop very junior leaders and soldiers in environments they may not have imagined themselves in. And they understand the impact that they play and the cruciality of supporting the regionally allocated forces that come over to support U.S. Army of Europe and our exercises in Atlanta resolve. And so really at the juniors' levels, I've got folks that are impacting missions at operational strategic levels that I, even as a young lieutenant in Afghanistan, didn't have a concept or have the opportunity to do. We had a lieutenant and her platoon down in supporting Trident Juncture in Spain, Portugal and Italy doing the fueling operations. Lieutenant Hassan Fluss, part of the 515th Transportation Company, and she took a convoy, you know, a young lieutenant took a convoy and they moved from Germany to France and they linked up with French forces and they did this, you know, multinational convoy down to Spain. Now they're doing a risk assessment. We do risk assessments for all operations. Lieutenant's putting it together with her staff sergeant platoon sergeant and they're finishing up and the French commander comes over, what's that? Risk assessment, you know, we're making sure we're doing safe operations. This is great. We're going to incorporate this into NATO doctrine. Now, the lieutenant didn't think she's telling me about it. That's cool. They're going to, whatever. So do you realize that you just produced a product that 28 nations are going to use as a basis for how they do risk assessments for fuel operations? Pretty significant impact from a first lieutenant and a staff sergeant out there on the battlefield. We can actually see the success at the end of the day or at the end of the week or at the end of the mission, whatever it is we're involved in. Very accomplished, you know, when the exercise is complete and we're seeing how we had an effect, how we affected the overall mission. I think Atlantic Resolve has helped us bring much more relevance to the Sustain Brigade and the training opportunities, the ability to build readiness, consume readiness and understand and visualize where we're at in operations. I don't believe there's a better place in the Army to be a soldier or a logistician than in strong Europe right now, today. To assure our NATO allies and partner nations and deter Russian aggression. As I said, the American flag means freedom around the globe. You put an American flag, a soldier wearing it on their sleeve in any one of these countries and the citizens of that country know that the United States is there standing next to them. The Army's business is people and, you know, and readiness, right? Readiness of people and equipment and the 16th Sustainment Brigade provides that. I mean, we feed, fuel, fix, support the force and we provide operational reach, you know, so they can go as far as they need to go and freedom of movement so they can go where they need to go and really that's how we sustain a strong Europe.