 The US Army M1A2 Abrams tank crews, with 2nd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Conduct Live Fire Qualifications, at Bimoopisky Training Area, Poland, November 28, 2023. The 3rd Infantry Division's mission in Europe, is to engage in multinational training and exercises across the continent. Working alongside NATO allies and regional security partners, to provide combat-credible forces to V-Core, America's forward-deployed corps in Europe. My name is Sergeant Hunter Harper, I'm a 91 Alpha tank mechanic for Alpha Company 269 Armored. We're deployed right now to VPTA Poland, which is Bimoopisky Training Area, and we're just out here with the NATO forces. So the purpose of us being out here are, tanks are doing gunnery, so what our job is, is to make sure that they can shoot, move, and communicate. So we troubleshoot faults, verify faults, fix tanks, and make sure that they're operational, so that way they can shoot. Diagnosing faults, and that's really my job, is make sure that these tanks can fight and win in battle, it's awesome. So all the work that us maintainers do, back in Garrison, really reflects whenever the tanks come to the field and shoot their gunnery. So if we don't have much to do when we're in the field, that means that we're doing our job to the best of our abilities and making sure that these tanks are good to go. And so just being able to watch them shoot and move through their tables like they do, it makes us really proud to be like, hey, we did that, and it's a job well done. I like the troubleshooting aspect of it, it kind of involves your brain, it's mentally challenging, especially whenever you get a set of faults or something that's going on with the tank that you haven't really seen before, it's like a puzzle. And so just being able to piece that puzzle together and diagnose what's going on with it so that way you can fix it, and then once it's fixed, being able to see, hey, I did that, I fixed it, and that's a good feeling.