 The common up put out two very key documents the first is called a vision for the future and second is called a concept for stand-in forces in both of those documents he describes how he sees the Marine Corps operating in the future namely that it's going to be operating in the Pacific across a wide wide span of distance using a number of different island chains and reconnaissance-based fighting platforms integrated with things like high-frequency communication with electromagnetic sensing capabilities and so our battalion looked at our vehicle and said well we're the only ones that can do long-distance amphibious operations we should try some of this and so that led to planning getting our AADs out here coordinating with second radio battalion as well as our own communications marines within our battalion to make a highly integrated training opportunity that could test out whether we can take on this kind of mission capability