 We say all the time how the NCO is the backbone of the Marine Corps, and I don't think that there's anywhere that's more demonstrated than a boat company. It's over the horizon and there's swells large enough to break the view between boats. That's just that's a solitary boat team out there and whoever that Caxuan NCO is, whoever's the senior man on that boat, they've got people's lives in their hands. And the type of maturity, the type of meticulous prep for combat that goes into making a raid like that successful, making an amphibious movement like that successful is immense. And the fact that the NCOs and the men of this company are knocking that out really speaks very highly of it. Right now we have Second Battalion First Marines engaged in the Caxuan Skills course right now. Marine Corps training division those two things. We train Marine Corps instructors of water survival and our amphibious raids branch trains small boat companies for employment with the 31st Meal. What we do here is we train individuals to to manage and operate the combat rubber raiding craft so it takes someone who's got to be the mental and physical skills to to lead in a stressful environment on the water. Our mission at the amphibious raid branch is to provide the marine expeditionary unit with a certain skill, that skill being the ability to perform amphibious raids. So my position being the Caxuan Skills course chief is to facilitate all the training that the students are taken. This is an MOS producing course that we receive 0-3-16. So making sure that all the standards and conditions are met based off of the training readiness manual is my job. You're only as good as your boat team. It's one of those things where if you're not a confident Caxuan going through the surf zone everyone will know. You have to be the one you know that everybody looks to in order to safely get that craft through that surf zone. Those waves when they're when they're crashing down on you it's intimidating. So getting everybody into the creek and getting that creek moving is extremely important because the longer you sit in the surf zone the more and more water you take on the more and more weight that creek takes on meaning the less effective that engine is pushing through that surf zone. Misery loves company. You know all the students here suffer the effects of these courses, the long nights, early mornings, the effects of the weather, the physical toll that it that it takes on their body. The ones that meet that standard are all tighter forward as a group but they won't pass unless they come together as a team. Marines that are filling these key billets have just floored me with their professionals where you know again they are controlling our movement. They're the ones that I'm essentially entrusting the safety of the company to while we're seaborn. Steely Vane and CEO Caxuan is getting the job done. It's a pretty cool sea.