 Russia brenger international law, turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East, the refugee and migration crisis, international terrorism, hybrid warfare and cyberattacks. These are pressing challenges, requiring unity and resolve, and a strong transatlantic bond. NATO is united, we stand together as one. En attack on one ally will be considered an attack against us all. If you look at usra and what they're doing, they're integral. If you look at just the exercise and the training that they've been doing, the change in tasks, the complexity of those tasks, the distances of the moves they've made and some of the exercises in the Baltics, the Romanian, Bulgarian, those are all good examples of one, a change in mindset, a change in the tasks that we have to do, and a change in the way that we go about our training already. Preparing for combat means fighting like it's combat, and this kind of training and these challenges and the stress that we've placed on the soldiers here, this is as hard as we can make it. You know, our guys haven't slept well, they haven't eaten well, they've been out in 100 degree temperatures, and then they come out and they perform every single day. Via the US flag or any ally partner. We're going to be overhead, providing attack helicopters, cargo, utility lifts, and that are back, and our job is to be there and train right along with them. The National Guard and US Army Reserves are essential for US Army Europe. They train in Europe with our NATO allies and other partners. They build readiness, deter aggression, and improve interoperability. The participation of US Army Reserves soldiers and National Guard soldiers in our exercises is absolutely critical, because that's how we fight. It's all about the total army, and there are unique capabilities that are essential to US Army Europe, being successful in the performance of its mission. We have to work with our allies every day. The Year of Integration is the year where we really want to exploit this to make a huge step forward in the cooperation and integration with our NATO allies. All right, go, go, go. Hit the house. We'll start moving into four other countries where we'll begin either our training to sustain our readiness or training with our allied partners. I think we're going to experience more training and that ability to really show our allies that we're here because it creates alliance. It's reassuring that, hey, we got their backs, they have our backs. We are integrated, and we are integrated in every exercise that we participate in, and this life-fire exercise is no different. It is critically important that our junior leaders be able to work with their allies and our partners to practice their trade, to excel beyond what they consider to be their capabilities, because we challenge them at every turn to be leaders. In every exercise we do, we want to make sure that we're doing all we can to bring in the joint and multinational team to build as much readiness as possible, to leave no doubt that this alliance is prepared to deter any potential adversary. You know, I'm only a private, and I get to do a lot of stuff that, you know, some people who are more high-ranking than we have never done before.