 I am Captain Laura Rodriguez, I serve as a counterintelligence company commander for Blacklist Company 307th Military Intelligence Battalion. Yeah, this exercise has really helped build trust and confidence in each other. My teams deploy in small teams to different places around the world. So it's very important for them to gain that understanding, understand their weaknesses and strengths to be able to work together. Just the training that we've gotten out here, I think it's important to keep doing this. This is towards the end of my command, and I think this is one of the most valuable training exercises that we've done. It's really helped bring the team together and build all those skills that we really need to deploy. The purpose of Lightning Focus 22 is to certify at the operation section level, so team level, as well as the operational management team, so the personnel that manage our deployers on Continent. In addition, we've been working on our basic soldier tasks. We've been firing pistols, M4s, heavy weapons, and also doing leader reaction courses which help strengthen our soldier skills. The only thing I would like to add is I'm very proud to serve as a Blacklist Company Commander. I have amazing soldiers, and I'm just happy to be here. I'm Captain Erica Lynch. I'm the Commander of Atlas Detachment, 307th Military Intelligence Battalion. Lightning Focus 22 has helped our unit work as a team by empowering our NCOs to lead human intelligence operations in support of a large-scale combat operation training environment, also to lead exercises such as ranges, obstacle courses, leader's reaction courses, other events that help build team cohesion and help coalesce us and be a more powerful force in a future great power competition. I'd like my leaders and future leaders to take away the idea of empowerment, empowering down to the lowest level to accomplish tasks. Lightning Focus 22 has been instrumental in helping us understand the roles of everyone within the human collection teams and the operations management team to work together to accomplish the mission, to answer requirements for our commanders in order to understand how we can better help our commander and help our battalion collect in support of a great power competition environment. Lightning Focus 22 is to certify both of our human collection teams as well as our operations management team platform and their ability to conduct human intelligence operations as well as manage human collection teams in order to answer intelligence requirements supporting our battalion in a GPC Great Power Competition environment. I'd just like to say that I'm very proud of the Soldiers of Atlas Detachment and 307th Military Intelligence Battalion for getting out here training, training as we fight in a tactical environment very different than Garrison, being able to balance ranges, field craft training, convoy operations, radio training with human intelligence training, counterintelligence training and all certifying our teams and our platforms to be able to conduct human operations and counterintelligence operations in support of a large scale combat operation fight.