 So, the first few days of JRTC have been a blur of excitement and action. During the Third Brigade Combat Team's Joint Readiness Training Center rotation, soldiers from Bravo Company 1187 Infantry Regiment secured a forward movement foothold for the 101st Airborne Division. Pointing JRTCs to essentially test the systems that we've built prior to coming here. And as we've gone through these past few days, we've really been tested, but I'm fully confident and I've seen the results that the systems that we've built are helping us perform well and we're doing really well as a team so far. In this training exercise, Bravo Company secured the town. Soldiers set up roadblocks and checkpoints to control the flow of people in and out of the town. They conducted area security and patrolled the town's perimeter. I think getting our team out of our home environment and kind of putting us in somebody else's backyard, extremely important benefit to coming down to JRTC and getting us training in different environments. Prior to the rotation, the teams focused on building systems that would strengthen their team. All ideas are important to us and we all take things from everyone else and that's what builds unit cohesion and makes everyone feel important and gives them confidence to go out and lead their team, their squad, their platoon when it's time to do so. For Bravo Company won 1-8-7 Infantry Regiment and the rest of Third Brigade Combat Team, the training experience JRTC provides is invaluable to ensure their soldiers and their units are prepared for the rigors of combat. Benefiting us going forward, there are a lot of lessons learned and I'm really glad it's not broad strokes, it's very, you know, this one individual piece was missing and we're able to fill in those individual gaps while we're going which is helping us for the larger picture, you know, returning back to home station training. So a lot of us have longevity here so we're hoping to build on this experience so for the next JRTC we're just coming and just smash people. With every patrol and every neutralized enemy combatant, the Erbegade Combat Team 101st Airborne Division is one step closer to winning the future fight. From Fort Polk, Louisiana, I'm Army Sergeant Jacob Conner.