 Air station Iwakuni's service members on the island Tinian have been testing the first ever arrested landing setup on a coral island. To make all of this happen, aircraft recovering marines had to engineer a new method of arrested landing. So we came out here not knowing exactly what we were going to run into. We had to do a lot of engineering, a lot of ground work, a lot of soil testing to see exactly how these anchors were going to go in place. The anchoring system alone isn't enough to stop an FAT when it lands, so to provide the extra power and performance, the marines shipped over a giant mechanical rubber band of sorts. This, this arresting gear can be put on a C-130, it can be brought out to an austere environment, towed behind a 7 ton, put in place in an unknown area, unknown runway and installed. And we, we've validated that, that installation here and that's probably one of the biggest takeaways that, that we have from this whole operation. Lance Corporal Joshua DeFour, West Airfield, Tinian.