 The reserves have a huge piece in the national defense puzzle and rallying the Rockies is a great way for us to develop tactics, techniques and procedures in parallel to the active duty because if ever there's a fight, high end fight that we're going to have, we're going to go do it together. From other exercises really is that it's going to be more geared towards a near peer enemy fight which means we're going to have a lot more advanced kinetics and non-kinetics that can interfere with the air operations. Moving forward in the battlefield towards the future, our airmen are really going to have to learn to fight and fly in these types of environments so if we get the training state side that's more realistic as possible, it would be a better bit for success when we actually have to go and do these operations. We're trying to also incorporate new things that the Air Force is pushing such as the multi capable airmen concept and actually test that to see if that's a capable and viable thing going forward for the Air Force to utilize in conducting operations. We're good at tactical airlift, but I think it's going to take something more in the next fight where we're going to need to be multi capable airmen. We're going to need to be able to do some things out of our job jar. It's not just stuck doing say one job, however in an environment where they're possibly pushed forward to like forward operating bases that are capable of maybe being able to load the aircraft and also provide fuel for the aircraft. This is really good for the expeditionary style the Air Force is trying to reach and obtain to because the faster we're able to move throughout the air of operations the faster we can bid for success and outpace the enemy where we're forward deployed to. This is a really amazing way that we can spend our training dollars and come together with units that we don't spend a lot of time with. We're going to refuel some A-10s and get them to do an integrated combat turn. They're going to go do their mission. They're going to come back and get some gas from our C-130s and then they're going to be back out on their way. Aircraft are most likely going to be interfered with non-kinetically such as jamming and communications interruptions rather than seeing those kinetic effects and we're really pushing that kind of training so that when airmen see this in the real world they're not going to be surprised or pretty much be degraded in that fight going forward. It's really a tactical exercise but the strategic impacts are going to be significant from rallying the Rockies. There's some really unique capabilities that we have here. We've received help from not only the aerial port squadron all the way through really the whole team and I've seen our our JAG Corps step up. What we're doing in rallying the Rockies could not be possible without our mission partners in the 19th Airlift Wing because it is a mutually beneficial relationship where they can tap into all of our talent and all of our experience that we carry here which is vast and deep and we really couldn't do this without them but I would really like to mention by name Nick Hainesfurther who has basically taken the lead on this exercise. Chris Axe has brought his expertise from rally in the Valley last year. Major Freeman has done in conjunction with Nick Moore has created a scenario that's so realistic and is going to be so useful so the team has stepped up and delivered in so many ways and I couldn't be prouder to be a part of this unit and what this unit does on a daily basis and the miracles it makes happen day to day it's really powerful and it's really a testament to what the reserves can bring to the warfighting capability of the country.