 Fieldcraft Hostile is pre-deployment training that gets airmen used to handling weapon systems such as your M4 or M9. It gets them used to driving Humvees and it gets them used to operating in a military environment, getting them ready for that deployment when they go downrange. My role in Fieldcraft Hostile is the urban operations in COIC. We teach airmen how to conduct operations in an urban environment and how to react to contact in that type of environment and how to move as quickly and as safely as possible to get out of that situation. Today in training at the urban operations lane, we conducted two scenarios. One scenario was a key leader engagement. We had a squad visit a village and conduct a key leader engagement where they meet the village to provide resources and they took contact during that engagement and our students used everything we taught them all day to react to that contact to safely get to a stronghold to where they can fight from the defense and suppress the enemy. At FCH Urban, we do receive airmen that have various levels of experience with weapon systems and conducting operations like the scenarios we conducted urban. It makes me feel better, makes me sleep better at night, getting the people with less experience, that experience and that training, getting familiar with weapon systems, how to use cover, how to move from building to building. It makes me feel better when they get that training before we send them downrange. A good day of training at the urban operations lane is when a student feels more comfortable operating their M4 and their M9 and using the characteristics of an urban environment to safely protect themselves and their fellow airmen.