 First Lieutenant Mitchell Denning. I'm from 573 Calvary from the third brigade combat team 82nd Airborne Division We're doing a cold load training out here. So we are practicing loading and unloading Blackhawks We're doing it in full kit under a combat environment to simulate how we're actually going to do it when we get to Sonia what we're doing in in Eastern Europe is mission calls for response third brigade is on it this year for the 82nd we are doing a JFE so a Joint forcible entry First off we're doing a airborne assault and then once we complete that mission which will be the swiftest rounds part of The Defender Europe operation as a whole We are going to do a lot of air assaulting with the Estonian military. It's part of their national training objectives I've never worked with the Estonians before or the British but I've worked with the Thailand guys before the Thai army basically go to their version of West Point and They taught me a lot about living in the jungle was a big thing we did over there I think it's a Important show of force for our enemies to show how united we are with our teams and how much we can learn from each other That's kind of like I was saying with the Thailand thing. That's like a lot of what we've well a lot of different militaries bring a lot of things to the table and so There's a lot you can learn from different tactics and procedures that other militaries have and how they do things So I'm sure we can learn a lot from the British paratroopers as they do a lot of a lot of airborne training And then I'm sure we can learn a lot from the Estonian aerosol guys But we want to bring what we can to the table and learn from them So such response will be our first major major training event post COVID The only people that are allowed to come into Europe with us are double vaccinated personnel Covada's put a pretty harsh a lot of harsh restrictions on training and things But this will be our first no holds bar like everybody is back in the fight Exercise so it's it'll be I think everybody will be a lot pretty motivated to get out there and work together and be close to close and back with all their buddies again because Before it was it was there was a lot we couldn't do and now working with other countries and things like that was a lot More restricted and now we are no holds bar. Everybody's double vaccinated. We're back. We're back to Being with our being with our allies again everyone is definitely still relevant still has like a job in the army because You still need to be able to exit a large amount of combat power and force Out into another Area of the world extremely quickly and airborne is the only way that you can really do that We can load a lot more people onto a C-17 than we can a black Hawk and we can take them a lot farther a lot faster And then we can exit them out and they can be a force to be reckoned with on the ground extremely quickly and there's nothing nothing More unbeatable than a than an Elgop a little group of paratroopers out there causing trouble on the DZ So that's really where we find our bread and butter is causing trouble for the enemy and our small groups Both airsalt and airborne missions are also extremely relevant to our IRF our immediate response force mission of Deploying anywhere in the world and at most 18 hours They are extremely necessary to the rapid deployment of paratroopers and Getting the 82nd tour that it needs to go quickly We got to be extremely proficient at both and that's what we're doing out here today So I think it's important to be double vaccinated because it'll be your main chance right now as a soldier to save lives Like deployments are ramping down This it will probably be your chance to do the most good for your community and your family and your country right now like this is how this is how you be a soldier right now is to Get double vaccinated and as a soldier right now being vaccinated or double vaccinated is the Main way that you're gonna save lives. That's how you're gonna help your community your family in your country and Do the most amount of good and it in really for no effort I mean all you have to do is get get double vaccinated and get a shot in your arm And we get plenty of those as soldiers. We get a lot of shots. So That would be the be chance to do the most good if you're on the fence about it, I would say look to your left and your right and plenty of your peers are getting it and so far we've had extremely little to no issue, so It would be I it's completely safe as far as all the statistics go and I think there's really at this point. No reason not to get it