 Soldiers with the 299th Engineer Battalion, a reserve battalion stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, put on a show for military leaders from Brazil and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The soldiers demonstrated their capabilities in providing mobile electrical distribution, utilizing specialized engineering equipment, as well as their bridging capability to deploy a floating improved ribbon bridge. The demonstration is part of an annual visit between the two chiefs of engineers to enhance theater security cooperation in military engineering. Today was all about showing some unique pieces of capability, engineer capability, excavators, our bridge erection boats, right, and also micro grids that the Brazilian engineers are looking to modernize in their own forces just like we are. The demonstration caps off a week-long visit by General Julio Cesar de Aruda, the Brazilian Army's chief of the Department of Engineering and Construction, where he visited USACE's Mississippi Valley Division and Engineering Research and Development Center, both in Vicksburg, Mississippi. We learned a lot here. This cooperation with the engineers. There were many aspects that we wanted to learn here, and we have learned a lot through this visit. One of them was on Waterways Navigation, Mississippi River, which was the beginning of the visit, and it was very productive and very important for the Brazilian Army. And besides the visit with the waterways, we've also learned a lot in other areas with the Corps of Engineers and Department of Army. We're very pleased with the visit. The leaders say visits like these are important to continue to build regional partnerships that look to enhance interoperability while developing the potential for increased regional response capability. The US and Brazilian armies have worked together for many years and are continuing to seek to advance the partnership beyond the high level of cooperation already in existence with future meetings in the works. From Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Patrick Bloodgood.