 Significance of Falcon Leap celebrating the anniversary of Operation Market Garden when the U.S. and Brits and other coalition allied forces came to the aid of the Dutch. It signifies it's always a massive paratrooper insertion behind enemy lines to help out a comrade in need. We brought over our airborne paratroopers from 1st to 1st 43rd to participate as jumpers as well as jumpmasters. We also brought over some individuals from 294th quartermaster company to assist with the rigging of U.S. parachutes. Our importance and why we are out here is three-fold. One it's to train on interoperability with our multinational partners so that if we have to go into a large-scale combat operations we are proficient with their aircraft as well as their parachutes and their jumpmaster commands. Second it's to just build at a three-decoration camaraderie between our multinational partners and third it's to pay that respect and homage to those paratroopers who made the ultimate sacrifice part of Operation Market Garden and to celebrate what they did. My name is Major Igor De Freitas. I'm the OPR of the Exercise Falcon Leap. The Exercise Falcon Leap developed in the last 10 years into a full technical airborne exercise focusing on the interoperability between the different countries to the different participating countries. Focusing on the air drops of material and the air drops of the aircraft. Not only the interoperability but also the bonding, learning from each other, the lessons learned that you get from all participating units. Not only U.S. in between but also the different nationalities and their participating units individually. Especially the bonding, the interoperability that is reached during the whole two weeks of jumping and dropping. Well I think it's important for every country. The highlights were of course the drops. We had good weather for two weeks long. There was one day of bad weather but then you still see the bonding in between the units in between the individuals. So the exercise on a whole it's a highlight for me. No fire in the paratroopers. Then Dutch paratroopers appear on television, national television tonight. So your whole chalk was selected just for this job. So that makes you the most beautiful Texas. Well my name is Jared Zuniga. I'm the first sergeant for the 294th quartermaster company. We come together as a coalition force and joint force. Understanding that some of the equipment might be different but ultimately it's all the same. We all have the same kind of equipment and we're all kind of going towards the same ultimate goal. The other positive that I know that's a takeaway is that working with other Compa 1 units and showing our interoperability and our standards are the same with Compa 1 units as far as training, as far as knowledge, as experience and especially as far as equipment too. So for Texas to keep doing this and keep showing Compa 1 and Compa 3 that the National Guard is an interchangeable fighting force I think that's very important for Texas. My name is Captain Matthew Dakota. I'm a commander for Delta Company 2325 Air at the 82nd Airborne Division. I'm here at Market Garden 77. I'm the airborne commander. Building partnerships with allied countries here in Europe. Specifically we have with us the United States obviously. We have the Netherlands. We have Belgium, France and Germany. We also have Italy, Greece, the Czech Republic and Portuguese attending this event here. The highlight is the airborne operations. Each day doing five jumps in total working with our allied partners, building that interoperability building living the legacy with them each day and then afterwards celebrating our years of our partnership but also the commemoration and anniversary of Market Garden 77 that took place during World War II. The only thing I like that is that we're all out here having a great time and we're going to bring back those experiences from here in Eindhoven, from the Netherlands, from Belgium and all those airborne operations that we do we're going to bring those back home and we're going to share those experiences with our fellow soldiers. I would say the highlight of this event has just been interacting with all the different multinational partners as well as some of our different partners from the United States Army talking to different Guard Units, 82nd Airborne as well as our state partners, the Chilean Army has a rep here as well as the Czech Republic also have a contingent here as well partaking in the exercise. So again it goes back to that having a spreat of core camaraderie ultimately to improve on the interoperability across all islands.