 So I'm Second Lieutenant Grace Nielsen and I'm from the 135 Armored Battalion here at Fort Bliss. So right now I'm currently one of the female engagement teams OICs and I currently work the night shift from 01 to 1300. We understand that for females it's not necessarily common for them to approach male soldiers or have male soldiers approach them. So to make it easier for them we provide these female liaisons and personnel so that they can approach us with any issues that they have, any concerns, and just building that community outreach with the females and families in Donoana Complex. So it's mainly cultural differences which is understandable. A lot of these people for their entire lives as well as hundreds of years of cultural understanding it's very different from America in how we operate. So we have to understand from their perspective the cultural shock that they're going through but mainly how we mitigate these issues. A lot of it is sometimes we have older female guests here that may react negatively to the younger female guests in the way that they dress because they come from different regions. Afghanistan is very diverse in ethnic groups as well as tribes. So how we mitigate that is we're having female community engagements and those are every Thursday with only females and then on Mondays it's males and females. I'm specialist Kiana Santamaria and I'm from 377. Well I personally have noticed that the females at the beginning when I first came they weren't really coming out of the tents they were kind of really to themselves and then once as the days went on that we've seen the female interaction go way up so they're actually communicating with us and willing to come out and play or talk to us. The females have come up to us asking us if we're able to get them certain feminine products and we've passed it up through the chain of command to get those and we actually have a station set up with the medics at their station for them to be able to get those products. It's an amazing feeling to have these children you know like with the language barrier we don't know what they're saying they don't know what we're saying but they're always so excited to see us and that honestly like for some of us it fills our hearts because we know that they see us as a positive role model for them.