 G'day, I'm Lieutenant Nick Elks from the Sixth Battalion Royal Australian Regiment on the platoon commander of our 2-1 platoon of Bravo Company We're out here conducting live fire training with Cold Steel Company from the first 27th US Army We're located here in the Philippines out in the field environment Yeah, so it's vital to Australia that we get out into the near region and we interact with our partner forces So we're out here training with the US Army and the armed forces of the Philippines And in order to build cooperation between our militaries So I'm a platoon commander in the Royal Australian Infantry. So essentially my role is to coordinate a platoon of individuals, roughly 25 soldiers So Australia believes in the security and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and as such it's vital to us that we get out Interact with our partner nations and where possible build cooperation between our militaries like we're doing out here on Exercise Balakutan Alright, so we're infantry soldiers as part of Bravo Company from the Sixth Battalion Royal Australian Regiment And we're here as part of the Land Mobile Training Team 5 of the Joint Australian Training Team, the Philippines So our role here is essentially to assist in training members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines And in doing so we've had the opportunity to train with the US Army and with the Armed Forces of the Philippines on a live fire exercise And soon to be a field training exercise Yeah, I believe Exercise Balakutan is a symbol of the deepening relationships in between the US Army, the Armed Forces of the Philippines Particularly the Philippines Army and the Australian Defence Force, in this case the Australian Army The type of training that we're currently doing is a live fire exercise So essentially this replicates the conditions of a battle that a soldier would see out on the ground So utilizing live ammunition with realistic targetry and live offensive support Example of that being artillery in order to simulate realistic conditions to train our soldiers in a manner that's realistic And will provide dividends to them when the time comes for a real fire