 In today's world, there's nothing that we as the U.S. military are going to do alone. We need those relationships every bit as much as our partners do. And so the ability to work both with European partners and allies and African partners and allies seeking African solutions continue to build that understanding and ability within us to work with our partners. And frankly, we learn a lot from them. We, I believe we can share some lessons with our partners, but I think we learn every bit as much from them in how they conduct activities, conduct operations in this environment against this threat. So it's a mutual learning experience. Now, I just, again, I just appreciate the partnership with our African partners and our European partners in being able to bring them together. So this provides a great, great environment for that, one that's both relevant with the current threats, but also provides great flexibility in how we execute. So again, just a great, great opportunity for us. Flintlock's incredibly powerful because it's really about building relationships. If you look at the threat that these countries face here in Africa, the threats from violent extremist organizations, they transcend borders. There's no borders to the terrorists. And so we need to work with our partners here to create those relationships that are able to address that threat as the threat is particularly spreading south. So when you look at these coastal countries particularly, they see the threat spreading towards their borders and in some cases even coming across their borders. And so the ability for them to work together is incredibly important. And particularly when you look at special operations, special operations, we say our first soft truth is humans are more important than hardware. And when you look at the importance of the human, it's those human relationships that are really most important. So while the training itself is important, it's the relationships they're building that we believe will continue to see effects into the future. I just want to add, for all the contributing nations, all of our African partners, all of our allies that are down here, I appreciate everyone's support, I appreciate everybody's participation. This is important. This is our number one priority at SOC-AF right now because this, more than anything, contributes to our partnerships and slows, again, the expansion of al-Qaeda into the Latorals, into coastal West Africa. Flitlock allows us an opportunity on the continent to build tighter relationships with our African partners and our allies. It's a remarkable experience down here. We will continue to invest in this because each year we see an increased capability from our African partners and we get closer and closer with our allies. I want to highlight the fact that while this partnership is taking place and there's a huge amount of positive energy and activity happening here at Flitlock, it also contributes to the United States overall mission and with our allies of slowing the expansion of al-Qaeda from the Sahel into coastal West Africa. And so this mission, this exercise has the intent of building partnerships and increasing capability within these African nations in coastal West Africa, but it also has a message to al-Qaeda that we're not going to tolerate expansion into the Latorals. I think the partnerships and really the integration that happens during Flitlock is important because it helps us see and find seams, whether it's our ability to communicate with one another, our ability to be more interoperable in the field. And that takes place with both our African partners and our European partners, our allies. It's incredible opportunity to get out in the field, work with each other, test our tactics, test our equipment, test our communications and really take it to the next level of integration. So if we do have to go into conflict or if we do, are we continuing to build partner capacity here, we know where our shortfalls are and we're able to address them. So Flitlock, hugely important for the integration, hugely important for the partnership, but also a really important part of us identifying where we have gaps and seams in our capability in our partnership with our African nations. My name is Sergeant William Goldicott. So my job title here is a communication sergeant. Basically what that means is I'm here from the SOC AF signal attachment to set communications for this exercise, Flitlock. It has a pretty big impact on pretty much everything that has to do with the exercise. We provide computers, radios and everything that the exercise communications group and the joint multinational headquarters needs.