 Yeah, welcome back to Think Tech. This is the military in Hawaii. Today we're going to talk about the ninth mission support command with Brigadier General Timothy Connelly. Welcome to the show, General. Thanks, Jerry. I appreciate you having me on. It's a pleasure to be here. Sure. Well, tell us what the ninth mission support command is. You're running it. How big is it? And I get the idea that it's about supporting the reserve. Am I right? Well, more specifically, it's actually about supporting US Army Pacific and Com Indopecom. So the commander of Indopecom, Admiral Aquilino, and the commanding general of US Army Pacific, General Flynn. And the ninth mission support command is an Army Reserve formation as opposed to an active component formation. But we're unique in that most Army Reserve formations across the continental United States are assigned to the US Army Reserve Command. The mission support command is unique in that we're an Army Reserve unit, but we're headquarters, but we're actually assigned to US Army Pacific and under their operational control, which gives the US Army Pacific immediate access to being able to use our capabilities anywhere they're needed. Where's your command located? Is it Camp Smith or somewhere else? No, we're located on Port Chapter. There's about 3,500 soldiers in the command. About half of them are here in Hawaii. The other half are spread equitably, as I'd like to say, between two locations up in Alaska at Joint Base Elmato-Fritzen and Port Wingray. We're the only Department of Defense presence down in American Samoa, and we also have a great Army Reserve Center and Army Reserve soldiers from the 9th MSC out in Guam in Saipan. In fact, in Saipan, which is a separate American territory from Guam, which is also an American territory, Saipan is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, and in Saipan, we're also the only DOD presence in Saipan. I also have a brigade level headquarters stationed at Camp Humphries in Korea and at the attachment at Camp Zama in Japan that works with US Army Japan. So before I go forward, I have a lot of questions for you. I just want to tell you that when I was in the service, I was ordered to fly from, let's see, Yokosuka in Japan to the East Coast, and they put me on this kind of space A flight that stopped in Elmendorf, and I had my tropical khakis with me, and it was for freezing, and I never, you know, I couldn't get on the down-line flight, so I sat there for 24 hours in the airport at Elmendorf. I guess it was an Air Force facility, and I waited 24 hours for the next leg of the flight, and as a result, Elmendorf has left an impression on me from then till now. I still think of it in terms of sitting there freezing my Okoli off for a full day. Elmendorf, Alaska, there you go. Funny how your experiences in the service all burn a hole in your brain. I would always think that a flight from Japan to the continent of the United States would pass through Hawaii, so maybe you drew the short stick, especially if it was the winter. Yeah, short straw, I should say, but for short, Alaska is beautiful, and I'll answer all your questions. I got so many great stories to tell about this command. I was just in Alaska a month ago out on Koliak Island watching our engineers do a road construction project, and it was just beautiful. It's beautiful up there this time of year, but if you went through the dead of winter, yes, you will suffer. So tell me what, you know, what does the support command do with these 3,500 people that are scattered from hither and yon? It's a huge geographical area, and it's a big force. What does it do? Well, like I said, we're an army reserve formation, so the soldiers that we have in our formations are from the places where they serve in uniform. They're citizen soldiers. They spend most of their lives as citizens just like you. But one weekend a month, two weeks out of the summer, and whenever I have them mobilized on active duty, they're doing great things in service of this command and usurpak in the greater Indo-Paycom area of responsibility across the Pacific. The 9th MSC is a very diverse formation, both in terms of the individuals that serve here, because as you know, there's literally dozens and dozens of different ethnicities and cultures and languages in the Pacific, and the 9th MSC has them all, as well as diverse capabilities in this command. I have a maneuver enhancement brigade. I have a civil affairs brigade. I have the only infantry battalion in the army reserve. We have an awesome horizontal vertical construction battalion. I have a military police company down in Guam. I have a theater signal company here in Honolulu. I have a school house, the 4960 multifunctional training brigade that teaches soldier skills such as engineering and medical and quartermaster, and also teaches our officers on command and control and leadership out of our command and general staff college course that we teach here. I also have an awesome army reserve hospital, if you can believe that, with over 400 medical professionals assigned. Most of them are army civilians in the medical community, so the commander of my hospital is a neurosurgeon, and the hospital is filled with doctors and dentists and nurses and nurse anesthetists and medics and medical planners and logisticians all from this region and up in Alaska and down in Guam. It's really an impressive capability here at the 9th MSC, and you'd be surprised to learn as an army reserve formation how much U.S. Army Pacific leans on us to bring capabilities to bear to solve the hard problems that we're solving out here. Is it the only MSC around, or are there others in other parts of the world? Well, so there are three MSCs, mission support commands, in the army reserve. One out here in the Pacific almost signed to U.S. Army Pacific. There's one in Europe, the 7th MSC, a slightly different type of formation, but they're assigned to U.S. Army Europe and provide, they're also assigned under the operational control of U.S. Army Europe and provide similar capabilities out there. And there's also a first mission support command based out of Fort Buchanan in Puerto Rico, and also a very diverse formation down there that provides us with a great connection not just to Puerto Rico, but to the greater Caribbean and the army south and southcoming or. So if I'm, you know, joining the army as a reservist, I guess that's still, you know, an enlistment possibility. Do I want to be in an MSC as an MSC, you know, good duty, so to speak? Is it something I would want to choose if I could? Well, I think if you live in Hawaii or Alaska or Guam or Saipan or certainly American Samoa, it's a great opportunity. You know, there's a lot of people that want to decide, you know, in high school, either enlisted or going through college through RTC or otherwise, they decide they want to serve in uniform, but they really like where they're from. Now for the soldiers, there are a lot of soldiers out there that, you know, they want to make a military career. They want to go on active duty and by, for sure, I encourage them to put on the uniform and go on active duty. But there are many, many soldiers out there, many people out there. And I talked to the high school kids in Hawaii often about this. I've been out to many of the high schools in the Hawaii area and down American Samoa even. And I give them my talk on options and opportunities. And I give them this talk only because, you know, when I went through high school, I don't really remember many people coming to talk to me about the military. So I like to talk to the kids about this. And just to tell them, look, if you want to leave home, but you don't want to leave home, you can join the Army Reserve. You know, you go off to the same basic training and same advanced individual training courses that your active component counterparts get. And you get to be paid while you're there and doing it and you get turned into an American soldier, which is awesome. But then when you're done with that, you get to come back and you join your Army Reserve unit and you go back and either live with your family or get reintegrated back to your civilian job and you get back to work doing what you were doing before you left. But you get to serve in uniform with your Army Reserve unit. And you're available as a mobilization asset when your nation needs to make the call and potentially have you go and do some hard things somewhere. Well, that was a pretty good pattern to follow. You know, you can have it your way. I wonder about the mobilization aspect, though. I mean, I can't think of too many moments in the past 20 years, for example, where the reservists have actually been called up. Can you? Well, I think, well, I can give you a number of examples just in the four years that I've been here at the Night Miss and Support Command. It's not always for a contingency, in fact, more often than not, it's not for a contingency operation. Just back in 2018, when Taifu and Yutu swept across Guam and Saipan, and really, Guam and CNMI and essentially Flatt and Saipan and Tini and 350 soldiers out of the 9th MSC were mobilized, both at Honolulu and this headquarters and 300 more at Guam. And we let the cleanup on Saipan, mobilized down there for several months to help the mayor of Saipan and the citizens of that island. The Marines covered down on Tinian, which we are greatly appreciative of, and the Guam National Guard covered the damage that was done to Guam. That's just one example. And then when the pandemic started, and in particular my hospital and my headquarters, we were essentially, we mobilized nearly 500 soldiers here in the Night Miss and Support Command on active duty so that the Army Reserve in the Pacific was postured and prepared in all locations here in Hawaii, up in Alaska, down in America, in Samoa and out in Guam and Saipan when required to respond to our nation's calls and support FEMA activities to support COVID response. A lot of our doctors and a lot of our other capabilities were brought to bear to help bring relief to the civilian community that was trying to get their arms wrapped around this pandemic. That's great. I mean, there's two schools of thought. One of them is that the military in Hawaii can help us in time of extreme weather or natural disaster, what have you, and we should feel comforted by that. There's another school of thought, and I'll be asking you about this, which says that the military in Hawaii has its own mission. And in terms of the priorities, that mission will have the priority, so you shouldn't count on the military helping you in times of extreme weather or natural disaster. Which one is right? Well, I certainly think the former is right. I mean, natural disaster response across the Pacific in Hawaii, Guam and Alaska in particular, of course always starts with local authorities, and when the local authorities get overwhelmed, typically they go to the governor for help. And the next thing the next group they call out is the National Guards of those states. I'm not the National Guard. The Army National Guard, I have great friends across the National Guard formations in all of those states in Hawaii, Alaska and Guam. But when local authorities get overwhelmed, the National Guard steps in. But there are times when the Guard at any particular state either doesn't have the required capabilities or it simply gets tapped out, and in which case the defense support to civil authorities mechanism kicks in, and the state requires support from FEMA. FEMA gets authority to work with the Department of Defense, and then we engage either from the active component, the first component of the Army, or the other component of the Army that is a federal force, and that's the Army Reserve. And with the right authorities, then we kick in with our additional capabilities. But I think that we certainly prove in time and time again whether it's, now the Guard handled a volcano crisis on the Big Island when the lava flows came through. The Guard in all three states and the Army Reserve and the active Army and USERPAC all worked together to help with COVID response. And I certainly think that we proved between Guam and Saipan that the USERPAC of the military in particular were ready and did answer the call when those reasons were devastated by Taizuma and you two. Yeah, you never know these days. You know, in the time of climate change, we could have bad weather anytime. And we talk about volcanic eruptions. We have one going on now. It just started, not bad yet. It's at the level of tourist interest right now. Could get worse. In any event, you know, I want to ask you one very interesting and unique thing, quite unique thing about MSC. And that is, it has an historical connection with the 442nd and the 100th Battalion. Can you talk about that? Well, sure. In fact, I just had some awesome members of the Nisei legacy and the lineage that they bring to the table. But the 100th of the 442 infantry regiment, it is the only infantry battalion in the Army Reserve. So the Army Reserve is, you know, over 200,000 soldiers and civilians spread across 21 time zones around the globe. And we're replete with the robust levels of combat support and combat service support capabilities. Our combat arms forces are primarily in aviation and engineering and the like, whereas your more traditional combat arms forces in the Army are in the active component in the National Guard, your infantry, your armor, and light and fill artillery. But the 100 of the 442 is the only infantry battalion in the third component of the Army to sign out here in the Pacific, where it has a strong historical lineage to its performance in World War II. It is widely known as the most decorated unit in the history of the United States Army. And I don't mean just the Army Reserve. I mean, the entire United States Army and the history of its existence, the 100 of the 442 is the most decorated with, you know, well over 100 plus Medal of Honor recipients. It's also the unit of former Senator Daniel Hanoi, who is also the namesake of many things in Hawaii, but also including this very Army Reserve center that I sent it now. And we call it an Army Reserve Center, but it's more like a beautiful campus because we take great care of it so that our local soldiers have a great place to come in work and train when they come to the Battle Assembly. Just two months ago, and I had less than two months ago, I had Lieutenant General Jody Daniels, the Chief of the Army Reserve, the first female Chief of Army Reserve, career MI officer, brought her out here to see what we do out here in the Pacific. And among many of the things that I showcased to her, I brought her out to PTA for two days with the 100th Battalion. And she spent two days on the ground in the dirt with those infantry soldiers, lots of them do. Squadron platoon, live fire. There were fire and live tow missile rounds, and she actually got to go see the mortar section, the mortar platoon, hang some mortar rounds. So she got to drop the mortar rounds and herself probably fired about four or five mortar rounds herself, and they got to experience all the awesome things. You know, the 100th and the 442, people often talk about their historical lineage and most decorated unit in the history of the United States Army. And somehow, for some people that equates to, oh, there must be some sort of honor ceremony now, like the old guard. But that's not them at all. They are a legitimate, full-up, light infantry battalion trained to fight and win our nation's wars just like any other infantry battalion in the Army today, and they are very good at it. You're telling me that there are people right now in the 442nd who are doing duty for the United States Army in the 442nd today in 2021? Oh, yeah. If that wasn't made abundantly clear, yeah, absolutely. In fact, we just had a brand new battalion commander take over, Lieutenant Colonel Perkins, career infantry officer fired up and ready to go. But they take right now, in fact, just to give you an idea of how things go often with the local community in the 9th MSC, I've established with the commanding general of the Hawaii Army National Guard, Brigadier General Moses Kiavi from the Hawaii Guard. Good friends over there at the Guard. I've established a cross-component partnership with the 100th Battalion in the Army Reserve in the 9th MSC. It's partnered with the 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team out of the Hawaii Army National Guard. And they're on a three-year training glide path, if you will, a path towards building collective readiness where the Infantry Battalion here has the opportunity to plug into a brigade higher headquarters and train, learn how to train and operate together on the battlefield together. And, you know, they were doing some stuff this last summer, just two months ago out on PTA. They're going to do another collective training exercise together next summer. And then ultimately, the summer after that, they'll go to the Joint Readiness Training Center at Polka, Louisiana, and do a very robust collective training exercise together. And it's just a great partnership. It's great to work with the Hawaii Guard, great to partner with our fellow citizen soldiers from the National Guard side of the house in such awesome training. But the 100th Battalion from a fighting capability perspective to get directed at your question is absolutely alive and well. You know, I can just see two guys in a bar talking. And one says to the other, what unit are you in? And the other says, I'm in the 442nd. And the first guy falls down. He's in a dead faint. Okay. And when he wakes up, he says, you're 442nd, but you're so young. Yeah, I'll tell you, the soldiers today, they embrace the spirit of the brave heroes that came before them. I can say that without a doubt. I watched them perform in tough conditions at day and night. You know, just over in PTA. So the tradition continues? Tradition absolutely continues. I got the Echo Company down in Guam. I got Bravo Company down in American Samoa. The soldiers that fight out of American Samoa, they are fierce competitors and, you know, just military athletes. If you ever need someone to help you carry around about 150 pounds of ammunition on their back, just call somebody from Bravo Company and they'll take care of you. So what's it like to be? What's it like to be in the reserve in, you know, one of these units and subunits? I mean, how often do you have to go? I suppose there's a lot of different kinds of things you could do. But how many days or hours per week, per month, are you expected to provide? Is it the same for everybody or different? And can you give me a handle on how much you get paid as officer or enlisted? Just a rough idea. Because, you know, I was in the Coast Guard reserve and after my active duty, I was always surprised how much they paid me. It was impressive. Also, you know, what do you have to do? What do you have to beat to succeed in these jobs? Well, so that you've covered a lot of terrain there. Why don't I start with the last question? What do you have to be? Well, in the Army, there is a vetting process to get into the military. And the military loves folks that are fit, loves folks that do relative well in school. But, you know, what I would encourage all the kids out there to do that, if they're interested in enlisting in the military after high school or during their senior year of high school, go see the recruiter. And you'll sit down and you'll take an ASFAB test. And that recruiter, if you're really interested in doing certain things that the Army or the Army Reserve and the Pacific has to offer, they'll set you on a right path of preparation to make sure you're getting trained and fit and studying the right things you need to study to do well in that ASFAB so that once you get that GT score and it's high enough and you demonstrate a level of fitness, the military, you know, we don't take folks that do drugs. We encourage kids throughout high school to keep a clean record, don't get in trouble with the police, you know, be good model students and citizens in your local community. And, you know, so you can pass a background check. So when you come on board, those types of things are an issue when the recruiter wants to work with you and get to get to the square way of the contract so that you can join the military. There's a lot of benefits in joining. Even the Army Reserve or active duty, you get access to a lot of benefits, medical benefits, educational benefits, the GI Bill. I know many, many soldiers that have paid their way through college based on their ability to join the Army Reserve and put that uniform on. And a lot of people are just very reluctant to take that step. They just think it's such a huge leap. But once they do, I've rarely met anyone that regretted it after the fact. So as far as pay, I'm not going to pretend to memorize the pay table, but I will make one thing clear. The pay of a soldier at every level enlisted an officer alike is a matter of public record. All you have to do is Google it or go to your internet search engine of choice and put in 2021 military pay tables and you will be brought right to the internet site that shows what you're paid from E1 all the way up to the 4th star generals of the Army. And it's broken down also between active duty and reserve component. So when you come in and let's say you join the military and you work your way up to E5 or E6, like Sergeant Acevedo sitting here in the room with me, and you draw one week in a month, you go to that pay table. It's going to tell you, hey, you're in E6 and you've been in service for four years. It's going to tell you how much you can expect to make in base pay. And then when you're also in the military throwing an active duty order of some sort, whether on active duty, you also get additional entitlements. You get a basic allowance for housing. If you're living off post, you get a basic allowance for subsistence. This is all in addition to your base pay. So in addition to your base pay, they're giving you an allowance for housing and allowance to give you an ability to put food on the table. I'm going to have to talk to you, Sergeant Major. Hope I'm not too old for this. We'll bring you back. You're happy to have you back. You can always use a good lawyer. I have actually, for a time, I was a military judge, a matter of fact. Anyway, so I wanted to ask you also about change. There's nothing so constant as change itself. Everything changes. And our geopolitical position in the Pacific is certainly very important, and it is changing. It is changing because we want it to and because we need to have a change to comport with other changes, to win the deal that the president made with Australia and Britain over nuclear submarines. It's an example of a dramatic change in the Pacific. So I guess my question is, how will these changes affect MSC? Where do you see MSC going in the next few years? Is it sort of relative to the Army in general, relative to the military in general, and in the Pacific in general? What kind of evolutions do you see happening? Well, I think that's a great question. I think the biggest evolution that we've seen relative to the ninth mission support command, again, under the operational control of US Army Pacific and General Flynn, and General Flynn who is educating us and educating the Army on what it means to have a theater army out here in the Pacific. There's two theater armies in the world, US Army Pacific and US Army Europe, and the theater army is responsible for all land component aspects. So the things that we need to do across the Pacific are to assure our allies to turn our adversaries and ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific. And General Flynn, thanks to his leadership, has challenged the ninth MSC, among other things, to... We've adopted an area across the Pacific Island countries, commonly referred to as Oceania, so countries as far east as Fiji and Tonga and as far west as Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste, and all the Kopa states, Palau, the Republic of Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia. The ninth MSC has been given the awesome mission to partner with the United States embassies in all of these countries and establish a presence with all of them. So with many of these countries, I have boots on the ground wearing the ninth MSC patch and they're working with the US ambassadors from all of these nations to help bridge ties between not just the Department of State in those countries, but also with the host nation governments and the host nation militaries for the countries that have them. And the whole idea is with this is to ensure these countries and these embassies that USERPAC is an important lead element in the Pacific for the Department of Defense and Indopacom is present and engaged with these countries and we're working with them and working through their concerns and we're working to support each other. We're not just working to make them better, they helped make us better as well in these countries. The ninth MSC, because again the ninth MSC is from the Pacific, all of the countries I've mentioned, I can almost guarantee you, I have soldiers in my formation as American citizens who are actually from these countries and they're from these countries, they have family in these countries, they know the culture, they speak the language, when we sit with and many of the soldiers that are from these countries are part of my team that's executing Operation Pacific Island countries across Oceania and this is just one example, this is a main effort of what the ninth MSC is doing in a very real sense, to help USERPAC with ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific, making sure that we have the right partnerships in place to have access to these countries where we need it. But we're also engaged in many other areas, you know my three to two civil affairs brigade which is very engaged in Oceania is also engaged up in Japan, I have my three or third maneuver enhancement brigade is partnered with Regent Marianas, we're just we're engaged in adding value, I like I said this is at a recent USERPAC commander's conference, I looked at the around the room so all the different commanders that are part of USERPAC and report and are accountable to General Flynn and I said if you're in this room there's a pretty good chance the ninth MSC has some sort of partnership or relationship with you and that's and that's the absolute truth whether it's be the Guard or the 25th ID or the 8th TSC or 8th Army or US Army Japan or Regent Regent Marianas out in Guam it's just it's an amazing organization no more blessed than I deserve to be able to be able to command it. Well I wanted to ask you about you know Afghanistan you know we had 20 years there the army was involved for sure over that 20-year period sometimes more sometimes less depending on troop levels and now if that's over we're not there anymore so my question to you is here we are halfway around the world how did Afghanistan affect the MSC your MSC and how did the departure from Amazon how will that affect your MSC going forward? Well so so the Afghan the the situation in Afghanistan is certainly complicated right I served a year in Afghanistan myself back in 2009 and you know people will probably debate for years whether or not we should have stayed or gone and or whether or not we did it right or did it otherwise that's that's really not my place to say in this particular discussion I you know that even the some of the senior leaders of the army did express some concerns it put some messaging out that that may that perhaps there were there were soldiers out there that were that were having some mixed feelings about what had happened in Afghanistan and and and that would be necessary for us to extend resources so they had someone to talk to and if they felt like they needed someone to talk to about how they were feeling in case they were feeling in confusion and and the reality is that there are some soldiers out there that are having those feelings and and I want those soldiers to you know somehow be able to fight you know if they need to talk to somebody just like we did during the pandemic and the pandemic was bringing people down and last year last year we went through a significant period of of civil unrest and racial tensions and the and the results of the Fort Hood investigation came out these were all hard topics and I think the Afghanistan situation is is similar in that it's also a hard topic that we as leaders need to be able to sit down with soldiers and be willing to have hard conversations and I think the senior leadership of the military has encouraged us to do that to sit down let soldiers feel like if they have something they need to get off their chest they can do that and and so the impact on the 9th MSC I think from a soldier morale and motivation perspective um has been uh has been mitigated to the degree that I think I I've tried to do my part and my command sergeant major has done her part and all of my leaders have done their part to make sure that through all of this this period of discord I'll call it whether it whether you know going all the way back to last year in the start of the pandemic and again the racial tensions and the civil unrest and then Afghanistan now that soldiers simply have someone to reach out to and talk to whether it's mental health professionals or chaplain or just having a battle buddy I say here all the time in my own command have a battle buddy be a battle buddy and be awesome to everyone and uh you know I I just tell soldiers you know being awesome to everyone's all about just treating everybody with dignity respect and a genuine sense of inclusivity and you know the chief you know the chief of staff of the army has said you know if we could just crack the code uh and treat everybody with dignity and respect uh the army the army would be able to uh resolve a lot of the issues that that faces today yeah in many many ways the military is um you know it's uh it's the repository of national values just as you say uh one last question general I just one last question and uh they're gonna tell me to get off already that is you know what's it like being a general how do you get to be a general in the army and when you wake up in the morning as a general um do you have to put your your trousers on one leg at a time uh or can you put you know your trousers on both legs at a time how does that work well uh you know I've often said the moment that you think you should be or want to be a general uh might be the moment that you probably shouldn't be one um it's uh it's a tremendous and awesome uh responsibility and obligation and you have to enter it with a degree of humility um and an open heart and open mind and the willingness to engage with soldiers at their level so that you understand what they're going through and don't lose connection with uh what what what it is really we're asking them to do and in the army reserve that's even harder right because for a multiple of two reasons uh we get fewer training days a day uh I'm sorry we get fewer training days a year uh but by and large we're asked to perform in the battlefield uh on part at the same level as our active component counterparts because you know once you get there the enemy doesn't say oh I'm not going to shoot as many bullets at you guys because you're you're they're you're component that's not how it works um so I've tried to focus my general ship on uh doing good you know I've had a couple of senior leaders give great advice when you become a general officer as user rank for good I try to take that to heart and uh use it uh and um and you know you just you just need to embrace a notion of humility because at the end of the day nobody fights the fight alone it's all about the team and uh you know being a general and being a commander I think it's just all about understanding that when you're in charge you gotta take charge and when you're in charge you gotta provide vision uh provide guidance and make decisions and and after you do those things and you still haven't covered down on everything you have to assume risk on behalf of your subordinates so that they have uh so that they feel empowered um with with with the resource to to get after the things that you're asking to get out you know those principles don't don't are not limited to the military I have to say those principles are a good lesson for leadership everywhere and anywhere and good good rules to follow um so if I want to know more about MSc if I want to know more about becoming a reserve where do I look where do I go I think a great place to start uh you would go to www.usar.army.mil uh is our is our website um you can also go to goarmy.com and uh and and if you go to goarmy.com there'll be a link for your recruiter um and then if you if you if you go to usar.army.mil or or usar.army.com and you go into the supported command sections you can you can uh work your way through there and find the nice mission support command and our local phone numbers um it's always easy to find a recruiter and uh you can also follow us on the facebook just just type on facebook ninth mission support command or ninth msc or an instagram uh as ninth msc or ninth mission support command uh and uh encourage everyone out there to follow our pages uh we're always posted awesome stories I got a great public affairs section that's post that always post great stories about what we're doing in oceania what the 100th Italian is doing in training whether it be on pta or elsewhere and what the rest of our formations are doing across the pacific up in alaska out in korea uh down in american samo and whatnot so please follow us on facebook or instagram um i think we have a couple other social media uh avenues out there as well and ask that everyone jump on those and uh and follow us we're going to do a general timothy connelly thank you so much for joining us today it's really been great to talk to you and to learn from you thank you so much 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