 So right now I'm currently a platoon leader in Charlie Battery, so I'm in charge of approximately 40 soldiers. I own three guns, three cats, three PLSs, and basically I'm just supervising a firing platoon within the Field Artillery Battalion. Prior to this I was a target acquisition platoon leader in 210 headquarters brigade in Camp Casey, South Korea. So I worked with Q53 radar systems, Q50 radar systems, and I also did a survey with the iPads G for the brigade. After that, once I moved to Fort Stewart, Georgia, I was the headquarters battery executive officer. Then I moved to be a fire support officer for Bravo Battery 269, and now I finally took over the platoon leader job in Charlie Battery 19. Right now this is probably the most technologically advanced piece of equipment I've worked on in my short four year Army career so far. The system itself is very impressive in terms of the differences between the older model and this model. So the improvements made to the Alpha-6 to develop the Alpha-7 increases the lethality because one, we're able to move faster so we can keep up with the fight and continue to push forward. Additionally, the survivability of the vehicle itself has been increased greatly which is important for our troops. We can stay in the fight for longer. I think the biggest experience for me being a part of the modernization with this brigade is just realizing the speed at which the Army is progressing technologically. They're definitely keeping up with the time. So I was assigned to the Joint Assault Bridge. I came here from Hawaii so all the old vehicles were pretty much gone and the process for me modernization was all the new vehicles were arriving. So I got to see Bradley, that was pretty cool, and then they put me through the JAV op-net, the Joint Assault Bridge course. So I got to learn all about that. I've never been around tracked vehicles so it was a good opportunity to learn something new for my career and then just getting that knowledge to teach younger soldiers being one of the first. I'd say the coolest thing is it's a 15-ton bridge and it's able to deploy in about 2-3 minutes. So I think that's pretty cool and it has a hydraulic power unit, a diesel motor that piles all the hydraulics on the vehicle itself to put that bridge out and deploy. We're ready to go. We're the iron fist of 3rd ID. We have all this technology. We're able to employ it, get the training, get the soldiers what they need to do their job successfully and accomplish the mission. All of our old equipment was getting outdated and it's nice to have this new equipment, get training on it and be able to teach the younger soldiers about it and just be up to date with times with everyone else. So it's really nice. Equipment works good. I take a lot of pride in it, getting a new piece of equipment, learning this equipment and being able to push down that knowledge to other soldiers for me. I have a lot of pride about it. I'm just illustrating this new vehicle, the new next generation that's replacing the old 1068s or the 5771-3 series which is the old analog vehicles now because of technology and what's going on. So now we're going into this new advanced vehicle that goes into digital environment. The biggest thing in this highlight is this vehicle comes with five variants. It has your miss command, your motor vehicle, your general purpose and two types of medical vehicles, your medical treatment and your medical evac vehicle. That's one of the advancement. Also the armor protection, the speed and the survivability system, the upgraded enhancement of the survivability for our soldiers today. The biggest takeaway for this vehicle is that it can keep up with the modernized Bradley and the tanks due to its speed, the weight of it. The upgrade for us is the survivability. It can keep up with those forces because of the capabilities that this vehicle has. Also with our soldiers getting wounded and if a soldier gets wounded with the medical vehicles, medical treatment, they can treat them on the move as well. So they don't have to, they can treat those soldiers there on the spot and having a way to be medivac. They can do that with this new medical vehicle. That's the way. The commonality of mobile lines with the Bradley, because especially when it comes to replacement parts for the vehicle, they're there. So they don't have to wait for a special type because of the vehicle. We have them on stock on hand and so there's no breaks in the mission because of that commonality with the Bradley chassis. The biggest thing is going to provide that protection, that survivability and the quick reaction to any threat based on this new vehicle. It provides the fighting force with that capability to sustain that unit and not having to wait because of the older version of the 113s, because of the lack of the power and analog system. Because of the advancement of the enhancement of the vehicle and the survivability, the protection that it provides to our forces. There's going to be a better platform time for our soldiers based on our threat and today's better in our world.