 I'm Lieutenant Nick Jadon with the 16th Airlift Squadron based out of Joint Base Charleston. We're here in support of Mobility Guardian 23, which is a huge exercise in the Indo-Pacific working with our partners. So I'm a pilot on the C-17 Globemaster. We are responsible for airlift operations, aerial refueling, aeromedical evacuation, global airlift control, right now working in the Indo-Pacific and flying with our Australian partners. So that's been a super cool experience getting to fly with them, share our TTPs, our tactics, techniques and procedures, learning from them, learning how they do mission planning, down to execution, different things with their airspace, really being able to max perform the aircraft and how we train with them. So it's been really cool to see just like swapping seats with them and literally flying like one Australian pilot and one American pilot together has been really cool to see. Yes, that matters a lot because it demonstrates that we are so interoperable that we can just join together as allies and go take care of the mission, whatever it is. So when it actually first started even before we left here, we did a whole mission planning sell with the Australians down to like when our takeoff was going to be what we were going to do just to get to Brisbane and some of the formation maneuvers that we were going to like practice on the way there. We flew there as a two-ship landed and then woke up the next day, briefed up the plan for what we flew on Sunday and then went out and executed it. It started off with taking off as a two-ship. In my jet, it was our aircraft commander and one of the Australian co-pilots and then in the other jet, it was their aircraft commander and one of our co-pilots. So that was kind of cool. We took off, went up and flew out to an air refueling track, met up with a KC-46 and did some air refueling. So that was super cool for the Australians because that was their first time getting to air refuel off of a 46. So they don't get to see that really ever. And it was really cool seeing them succeed so well in it because I just expected maybe some challenges, whatnot, of being the first time seeing that, but they demonstrated the ability to do that just as easily as our pilots do. After that, we split up with the tanker and went to do a couple of airdrops. We didn't have any actual cargo that we were dropping. It was just for practice and training. But so we went in, did a practice personnel airdrop with a re-attack for a heavy airdrop, switching pilots like the whole time. So that was super cool to see as well, just how it was the same procedure either way. And building the confidence that if I were to fly with an Australian pilot in the future, we're just as capable together as we are separate. After that, we went and flew a low level through some mountain range in Australia. And that was super neat because it was a really deep valley with a nice river flowing through it. So it was super pretty scenery. And just be able to do that in formation with another jet was something that we don't get to see every day. And so we did a bunch of maneuvers following the terrain, practicing a technique called terrain masking. And that's just one of the, that's one of our mission sets, one of our capabilities. So to be able to practice that with them is cool. And then we actually did that low level a couple of times because it was a lot of fun and really good practice. So we cycled all the pilots through the seats again, just so that everybody got a chance to fly it and then headed home and did a formation arrival together. So honestly, that flight was probably probably my favorite part about this. Being able to work with the Australians was a super rewarding experience. It was a lot of fun. And just being able to learn from them, see how they, how they mission plan, how they fly, some of their localisms that we can use to just take home with us and use back home.