 It's slow, but, you know, we should be pushing down to our patrol base pretty soon here now, so it's going to start picking up pretty quickly the next couple of weeks. And that's why Marines with Weapons Company, First Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, also known as New England's own, are at Camp Leatherneck Afghanistan conducting integration training. But you can still zero it a hundred, five clicks, moves the strike around two inches. This training reinforces habits that this reserve battalion's 700 Marines and sailors learned during basic training and expanded during the pre-deployment phase. Part of the training includes calibrating the sights on the rifle so the Marines can shoot straight every time. You get down the prone, basically laying on your belly or what not, feet extended, a solid base or what not, and you're going to be in them at a target, crocs me about a hundred feet away. And basically you do three shots and there should be a grouping at that point if you're aiming properly and you know, you try to move with like four times within, you're going to be flying like three shots, three shots, and then four, so you want to try to get those groups closer and closer and closer to the center and basically just confirm that your optic is working for you. This training as well as the counter improvised explosive device and escaping overturned vehicle instruction teaches the Marines to operate safely and efficiently outside the wire by preparing their minds, bodies, and weapons to work as one. Before deploying, the battalion spent four months at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, training up on tactics, techniques, and proper procedures individually and as a collective unit. This is the battalion's first deployment to Afghanistan. They were previously deployed to Flusia, Iraq in 2005. From Washington, I'm Corporal Nick Neighbors.