 Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade and the Latvian Army got together to have a friendly arm wrestling competition on the Adazi military base in Adazi, Latvia. The purpose of the competition was to build comrader and friendship with our NATO partners. The competitors were divided by weight class and were able to wrestle against both American and Latvian soldiers. Staff Sergeant Alistair Anderson was part of the competition and talks about why it's important to train with the Latvian soldiers. That's important because that's the reason why we came here to train and learn from our Latvian partners and also they learn from us. So we come together and execute training and competition events like this and it only builds the bond stronger between us and we learn from them like I said when they learn from us. Private Vilna Sigeis is an amateur arm wrestler and organized the event. He gave the soldiers tips on good technique and talked about the benefits of training with the American soldiers. It's really good that the Americans are here because we have cross training. They try our weapons systems and we are trying their weapons systems. That's for me as a private is like step it up in my career. I'm now firing with M4 and they are firing with G36 and we share the knowledge and it's really good for us so we can learn from them and maybe you can learn from us. From the Michigan Army National Guard I'm Specialist John Brandenburg.