 My name is Gabriel Blake, 23 years old from Lausage, Nevada. Well, I wanted the opportunity to serve my country any way I could. I've learned valuable skills from my future and I've built a foundation that couldn't anywhere else. I knew that a combat engineer had dealt with IEDs and it was either that or EOD. I knew that EOD would take a long time and I wanted a chance to stop one of the most casually producing things in the battlefield. I'd say the most exciting thing is coming out here doing the training events. We've done other Cal Fexes before we came here. Seeing how to move in a wedge in a tank, doing my job, actually doing my job, which is very valuable to me because I know a lot of other people don't get to do their job all the time. All the training has been really adding on to my skills and it's been making me a better soldier so far. Now I've got a real opportunity to make a, I feel like a difference in my country. It's been a real adventure, a real valuable experience.