 I don't know what the team is doing here. Here we just use the river. I got a real one. You know what you're up? Bromance, bromance. Bromance, bromance. Bromance. Bromance. Moving right this way. How capital? Is this right over here? See where this enemy is? Yeah. He's better than the outside there. Watch for him, watch for him. Hey, you guys are covering down this road. Okay. So, gentlemen, what you've seen here today, the train that's being conducted behind me by the Buffalo Soldiers within 1st Battalion 17th Infantry, they conducted an attack to seize the village or site held by enemy personnel behind me. They came in on helicopters, they landed on the helicopter landing zone just off camera here and then closed with and destroyed this village in order to identify enemy personnel as well as identify any potential sensitive materials that they need to secure and then to exploit to prevent proliferation into other, you know, third party actors. But a majority of the training that we've conducted today is always to ensure that we're ready to fight tonight as we know we have a very important operational mission here strengthening the alliance between the United States government as well as the South Korean government to ensure that our strength and our capability is able to secure the Korean Peninsula and ensure we're able to accomplish our nation's objectives that it asks us to. So, with that, there's any further questions I'd be happy to answer at this time. This is our today. Absolutely. So, for today's exercise you see behind me there's also a striker in the background as well. A lot of what we do as a striker organization or part of a striker brigade combat team is both mounted and dismounted. So, a lot of what we've practiced today as you saw we came in with the helicopters to aerosalt in is one method of insertion. We've also used our striker platforms to augment our dismounted infantry on the ground as a fire support platform to ensure our dismounted infantry squads can get to the objective as quickly as possible to apply as much combat power as possible to destroy the enemy. So, a lot of the skills we've been working on today is our fire and our maneuver. What we call in the buffalo is our buffalo basics or as we fall under the second infantry division we consider those our fight tonight fundamentals. I would assess the readiness levels of both U.S. and ROCA forces are at an outstanding level. I would assess that any impacts from the previous COVID pandemic have had no impacts whatsoever on our readiness levels, our ability to train in both a unirouter or combined environment and quite frankly in the four and a half months that I've been here I've been exceptionally impressed with our ROCA counterparts and it's been an absolute joy to partner and train with them on a consistent, frequent basis. Absolutely. So, the main goal of this training and it's actually been over the last four days. So, we started several kilometers north of our current location at an attack position with all of our command and control elements. We've had roughly I'd say approximately 700 United States and ROCA personnel stage in that location with our vehicles and different platforms and weapons systems and we've systematically cleared against the enemy they fought here as the enemies retrograded back but ultimately we've cleared from north to south to this current objective which was our ultimate march objective which we assessed had the largest enemy presence and the potential sensitive materials that we wanted to seize and then exploit but the ultimate goal truly is to ensure our interoperability as a combined element between U.S. forces and then ROCA forces that should we ever get called to go to defend South Korea or to potentially go north that we are able to work together in a synchronized and effective way to achieve and accomplish our objectives and I would assess based off the last four days of training we've absolutely accomplished that goal and have definitely increased our proficiency and our lethality with respect to those fundamentals. So at the end of every objective or end of every training iteration before we move on to the next phase we conduct an AAR after action review where we, the leaders and the OCs that you've seen working around with white engineer tape around their helmets we come together, we assess what we've seen and then we pull in the elements and we conduct a very deliberate and methodical discussion of what we saw on the objective, how we executed our tasks that we wanted to accomplish and then we look to iterate and implement those into each subsequent iteration to ensure that we're not looking for perfection but we're looking for progress to get better and then I would assess at the end of all of that tomorrow we're going to do a collective AAR to assess our training to ensure we achieved our training objectives and then we're ready for whatever next training evolution that we're going to have is the training that we've conducted over the last four going on five days now it's been a fantastic opportunity to build the strength of the US Republic of Korea Alliance to ensure that we're ready to fight tonight no matter what occurs in the surrounding areas that's a great question I think the frequency of these exercises are paramount to ensuring the readiness and ensuring like I mentioned fight tonight we don't consider a catchphrase it's an absolute reality that we live every day while we're here deployed here even though we're here for only nine months we look to gain and maintain readiness every single day and exercises like the one we're accomplishing right now is a fantastic way to achieve that it ensures soldiers as they rotate on to the peninsula understand the environment as you can see the terrain around us is significant it's severely restrictive so the sooner we can assimilate to the Korean Peninsula the terrain that we may need to fight in that's going to ensure that we're ready to accomplish the task that we're given in the best way possible I've been exceptionally impressed with our Roka counterparts in the four and a half months that my battalion has been here so far we've trained no less than four or five times with various Roka counterparts both with armor units with tanks with striker units with similar Korean equivalents to our striker as well as light infantry and they're an exceptionally professional and disciplined force and I'd be privileged to fight side by side with them should we get called to do so I would offer as we observe what's going on in real time in Europe that is absolutely influencing the tactics, techniques and procedures that we observe in real time there and then how we can build that into things we may see in a future battlefield here specifically as a lot of platforms and systems in different countries go from man to unmanned we see a lot of that proliferating in that conflict right now informing how we would act or react to those type threats in this environment as well I think it's an awesome opportunity quite frankly it provides a lot of reality and importance to why we're here we recognize the sacrifice we make coming over here for nine months leaving our families back in the States it brings into focus that the sacrifice is worth it to ensure the strength of the Alliance to ensure the strength of all of our collective futures it adds a reality to why we're here what we're doing and why we truly need to be ready to fight tonight in that direction we're basically just going to go abdominal puncture abdominal to the chest abdominal puncture work left side of the chest what does he have? abdominal puncture work so I was right grab that side guys I don't know contact the last position they're coming from the east right? yeah they're coming from the east 50 meters up in the fucking one life on the side I remember the last time I saw a C1 there's a knife there's a knife there's a knife on my butt where the fuck? where's your monitor at? last one I was watching this over here do you have a 2-1 up here? we have some pressure firing they have names so be careful let's go let's go MBC is with you every where you go but it needs to be relevant and if you guys walk that two avenues of approach that ridgeline connects the reason why you're here is the biggest but yeah I mean so get with you need to be talking tonight you have to fall back to the firing then you gotta unlikely to be able to displace there's nowhere else for us to go and be responsible KCTC we're covering this hill and the ridgeline's coming off of it see the high ground hi this is a PFC Taurus here in KCTC we are here we are protecting the spot waiting for our stuff to go down we are on standby and we're helping to show to show other people what we can actually do and we are here to protect the United States of America so Captain Eric P. Malm I'm the gladator company FSC commander we're here today at our CTCP at KCTC this is my Distribution Platoon Leader I'm personal tonight Olivia Wilson I'm the Distribution Platoon Leader this is the Distribution Platoon AF you go to the next state stop and not back