 Hi, I'm Specialist Hernandez and I'm here for the field training exercise for the French Desert Commando Course. Let's go. The French Desert Commando Course is a course designed for the United States to work with the French. It's a way that we can build foreign relations and we also get the opportunity to kind of learn the techniques that the French would use in an environment like this. It teaches us different things for desert survival, how to get water, shelter, things like that, and then how to also operate as the infantry in a desert environment. Today we're more so focused on building the platoon that we'll bring over to the French. It's important to us that we make good impression to the French so we want to make sure that the people that we bring are a good representation of who the United States Army is. We're trying to build who is the leadership positions and we're trying to narrow down the people that we have inside of the platoon. Today we're teaching the basics so that everybody understands what is expected of them once they actually get to the course itself. We want to make sure that they're fit enough to do everything that the course requires of them and that they're knowledgeable and have said they perform their standard. Up until 12 o'clock we're going to be teaching different like react contacts, ambushes, and then from one o'clock to probably around like five we're going to start moving down that way. I'm going to give your PL your PSG coordinate. We're going to do a movement to set up an ambush and that's going to be a majority of our day is just walking. Right now we're doing a platoon movement going about 15 clicks or 15 kilometers. We're making sure we're moving in at wedge formation so our guys can see us and we can see them. That's it for now. They're working on reacting to contact for the enemy that's down there. There's about four guys or notionally they're doing 10. So they're communicating in the back right now how they're going to flank the enemy. And while these guys maintain the support element and they maintain the fire, they're going to have the assaulting element come around and flank the enemy from the right. So just working together as a platoon. Now we're receiving contact at 12 o'clock. We're on our original prone. Just waiting for other leadership and guidance to guide us through so we can conduct this movement. We're currently staged for a vehicular near ambush waiting for the OP4 to come along our way. So we can engage them and clear the objective and then ex-fill back to the ORP for follow-on missions. Type of like camouflage or foliage going on if they got rips or tears. To my beliefs this is a really important training opportunity for a lot of people. They can do joint training with the French, learn a lot about them and why they're one of our allies. As well as it allows them to see our capabilities and we can see their capabilities. I feel like being able to work together really strengthens the bond between the French and the Americans.