 Marines from the Fleet Anti-Terrorism and Security Team Europe and Africa, or FAST, Alpha Company 3rd Platoon, visited the U.S. Embassy in Tirana, Albania for a week-long embassy engagement exercise. Throughout the week, the Marines were at a range and the embassy training with the local police force and the Albanian military special forces. At the end of the week, the Marines responded to a simulated attack on the embassy. Captain Nathan Navarro, Alpha 3rd Platoon commander, described the benefits of FAST platoons visiting U.S. embassies for such exercises. So FAST Marines being able to come and train at an embassy, it really opens the door to highlighting the relationship between the Department of Defense and FAST Company and diplomatic security services that serve to protect the embassy. If we were to get it called in on a mission to an embassy, we had to be very flexible in being able to work together with diplomatic security services and also local host nation forces. So being able to come here and train has really opened the door to building those relationships, seeing the capabilities they have, and also being able to present to them the capabilities we have. As the exercise allowed Marines, diplomatic security services and local forces to learn about each other, Sergeant Andrew Cooey, the platoon guide, says it also allowed the Marines to reflect on their own training. Seeing this opportunity has been fantastic, seeing a lot of what we, how we've trained up to and what we were ready for and how much of that is applicable to what we would actually do, seeing that has been wonderful. It's definitely been, I would say, eye-opening almost, seeing what kind of changes we need to make to our training schedule so that way we're more effective in the future. From Naval Station, Rota, I'm Marine Sergeant Tony Nardiolo.