 Bradley C. Weston, battalion commander for 1st Battalion 2nd Marines. Operations Watkins Glen was part of the overall defense of the Bastion Leatherneck Complex and it's our forward most elements going out and disrupting the enemy in and about the areas that surround this complex. After about five or so minutes if nothing suspicious happens we'll probably just let them go. Recently after closing PB Bulldack we drew a lot of our forces out of the battle space so the message we want to send the enemy is that even though we may not be living out in the battle space we still have the capability of going out and affecting the battle space with our forces. So what we wanted to do is get Charlie Company back out there to do just that, affect the battle space with the amount of force that we have. The second piece of it was not only were we going to get out in the battle space and affect it but we're going to spend some time out there. We have the capability of spending four to five days if we need to out in the battle space and fight in the enemy and that's exactly what we did during Walkitz Glen. I think the Marines and sailors continue to perform extremely well. It's a tough mission. We have a lot of constraints on rules of engagement and the ROE, it's just very tough for the Marines to perform and do well and they take those constraints and they do extremely well and employing their weapons systems appropriately so I couldn't ask more from the Marines and sailors to do great stuff. I think we always take pride in our Marines whether we think it's a success or not. We ask a lot from these young guys. We tell them to go out and face an enemy and make life and death decisions and they do an amazing job. So to say that I'm happy, I'm sad, it's not really appropriate, it's just I'm proud of the Marines and the sailors. They're performing in a professional manner and they're getting a job done. I couldn't ask more from them. But if things go as they have been, I think come the end of this mission, one tool will be extremely successful and they'll be remembered for such. It will go down in history as being the last Infantry Battalion to close out Afghanistan for the Marine Corps and I think that'll be a great thing. I know families probably get worried knowing that their young Marine or sailors out there fighting the bad guys but they don't need to be worried. They've got each other backing each other up and they've got the skills to be successful and they're doing just that. So the families can rest assured that the Marines will continue to do a great job. We'll be home soon.