 Hi, I'm Specialist Hernandez and I'm here for the field training exercise for the French Desert Commando Course. Let's go! The French Desert Commando Course is a course designed for the United States to work with the French. It's a way that we can build foreign relations and we also get the opportunity to kind of learn the techniques that the French would use in an environment like this. It teaches us different things for desert survival, how to get water, shelter, things like that. And then how to also operate as the infantry in a desert environment. Today we're more so focused on building the platoon that we'll bring over to the French. It's important to us that we make a good impression to the French. So we want to make sure that the people that we bring are a good representation of who the United States Army is. We're trying to build who is the leadership positions and we're trying to narrow down the people that we have inside of the platoon. Today we're teaching the basics so that everybody understands what is expected of them once they actually get to the course itself. We want to make sure that they're fit enough to do everything that the course requires of them and that they're knowledgeable enough so that they perform their standard. Up until 12 o'clock we're going to be teaching different like reaction contacts, ambushes. And then from 1 o'clock to probably around like 5 we're going to start moving down that way. I'm going to give your PL your PSG coordinate. We're going to do a movement to set up an ambush. That's going to be a majority of our day is just walking. The platoon movement going about 15 clicks or 15 kilometers. We're making sure we're moving in at wedge formation so our guys can see us and we can see them. That's it for now. They're working on reacting to contact for the enemy that's down there. There's about four guys or notionally they're doing 10. So they're communicating in the back right now how they're going to flank the enemy. And while these guys maintain the support element and they maintain the fire, they're going to have the assaulting element come around and then flank the enemy from the right. So just working together as a platoon. Right now we're received contact at 12 o'clock. Right now we're going to prone. Just waiting for other leadership and guidance to guide us through so we can conduct this movement. We're going to be vehicular near Ambom for the OP4 to come along. We can engage them and clear the objective and then expel back to the ORP for follow on missions. Training opportunity for a lot of people. They can do joint training with the French. Learn a lot about them and why they're one of our allies as well as it allows them to see our capabilities and we can see their capabilities. I feel like being able to work together really strengthens the bond between the French and the Americans.