 The field training exercise, also known as FTX, is a training event where cadets have to spend multiple days in the woods completing missions like attacking objectives, ambushing enemies, or raiding areas for supplies. This is a chance for cadets to practice what they've learned throughout the summer. We read documents, we read doctrine about how to do all these tactics, but obviously once you come out here, Cad you're going to throw some stuff at you that you've never seen before and that's just really just to test how you're going to adapt to new situations that you're not really used to as a leader. William says training here in Fort Knox is a little different from training back home. In New York we have pretty flat terrain. We don't have this many bugs, snakes, I've seen a black widow here and I think I'd ever see that. I've never seen a tick before, it don't tick all over me. So the terrain is a little bit different. A lot of hills, really thick, hot here, not used to it being hot. The third regimen only has a few more training events before they graduate from an advanced camp. William says he will miss the friends he has made along the way. I'll talk to these people for the rest of my life, so I mean it's a bittersweet moment leaving them, but definitely excited to go home and see my family and all my friends. Reporting for the CST Public Affairs Office, I am Drew Brunfield.