 Yes, it's Staff Sergeant Martin Christopher, M-A-R-T-I-N-C-A-H-R-I-S-T-O-P-H-E-R. I am a 37 Fox. I'm with the 303rd Tactical Psi-Op Company. We are stationed out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I'm also a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Well, prior to mission, it's a lot of prep. It's a lot of pouring through annexes and previous interactions with the town folks and, you know, the role players on the sticks lane. So going over notes, making sure we have all the information correct and straight, and coming up with a game plan, some talking points, face-to-face outlines, things like that. For today's prep, it was mostly coming up with post-testing questions and just kind of getting the team on the same page. So when we get here on site, everybody knows their job and everybody knows what to do. Well, obviously, you always prepare for the best, but plan for the worst. So you kind of just got to roll with each conversation as it goes and let it unfold and develop on its own naturally. When you hit a roadblock, you kind of kind of take a step back, think for a second, maybe pause and think of a way that you can maybe divert the roadblock, get back on track on the conversation and be able to keep moving forward to get the information that you need. So what is the ultimate goal of this mission? Is it to get the civilians on the side of the U.S. Army? What exactly is... So what's the win? Our win here is to have pro-coalition sediment within the town, providing strength and unity for the government of Bolia. Definitely, you know, PCCs, PCIs are conducted daily. Sensitive items, infertories is conducted prior to, during and after movement. Just pretty much making sure that all the information that we've gathered from previous iterations on the lanes is utilized moving forward as the scenario develops and grows. It's just one of those where it's constantly involving situation and environment, so it stays fluid and we have to stay fluid ourselves. I like the realism of it. When you have role-players in situations like this, especially some of the folks that you're not usually used to working with, it adds that level of realism to it. So it's not, you know, the soldiers that you're used to drilling with and it just gives you that level of unknown. So you are actually building rapport with that person instead of, hey, I've already had this rapport built because I know this person from Back Home Station. So, and definitely situation lanes like this is definitely a good practice scenario for PSYOP, you know, to get out and actually get those face-to-face interactions and sometimes get those tough questions and those, you know, curveballs that get thrown at you during the lane. So it gets you to think on your feet and react accordingly in the situation. Definitely that, you know, that we operate in a fluid environment and to always be fluid with it. As soon as you stay fast and stand fast in an idea, it's just like a rock in a creek. You're just going to, the water's going to flow past you and you're going to miss it. So you got to move with it. I chose PSYOP. I was active duty combat engineer for about eight, well, actually going on 12 years before I reclassed the PSYOP. I like the independence of it, the idea of you're kind of operating in between two chains of command and you have freedom of mission and, you know, how to execute that mission more so than the very rigid structure of combat arms where this is your mission, this is your, you know, your mission set, times and everything. So here it's a lot more responsibility falls on you, especially as a team leader or team chief to execute planning, training, injecting yourself into that MMDP and actually being a part of that decision-making process just really kind of attracted me to the MOS. Definitely someone who's comfortable talking, a level of confidence definitely is a plus in this MOS. But that's something that could also be taught and learned throughout exercises like this and just constant practice and getting out to the field and honing those skills and those PSYOP relevant skills and just, you know, all around really it's just, it's an MOS that takes some time to getting used to and it definitely is, from my perspective, I've seen growth just from the few short times on my soldiers out here today leading up to today and, you know, prior to and just the more you do it the better you get at it. I would say definitely the freedom of mission and the responsibility that comes along with it. Some people might find that to be a negative but I think it really comes down to being a positive thing because it really teaches you to think not just maybe one or two ranks above you but really big picture and I know coming from Combat Arms you see little picture. You're just told, hey, this is your mission to go execute and not really seeing the bigger picture behind the Y. So in this MOS you definitely get to know the Y and then some. So I would say that's probably the number one selling point.