 A lot of times you might not be able to see the enemy until Geer is right on top of him. If he's doing his job, he's going to be covered at the shield. The scheme maneuver for today was a company attack. It had two supporting elements, the first supporting element set up a support by fire in order to receive the first objective. Simultaneously, we had another platoon push up to use the far objective. You got to be able to project power, especially if we're going to operate in contested areas in the Pacific. That means pushing out the tools and the island chains in order to operate in those terrains. Exercise Kouindong is the latest in a series of exercises that we've had the opportunity to execute alongside our Australian counterparts, as well as the United States Army and the United States Air Force. Really the focus of this exercise is on expeditionary advanced-based operations. It's a little over 500 miles between our left flank out in Western Australia and our right flank here in the Northern Territory. One of our enduring responsibilities is to be able to respond to crisis and conflict immediately if our nation calls upon us, but doing so over vast distances that replicate what it's really like to operate here in the Indo-Pacific. We went from Raff curtain to Yampy Sound via Ospreys. Once we landed, we immediately went into a three-click movement alongside the Australians. This is the first time that Marines themselves in a MRF-D have ever been in Western Australia. Being in an unfamiliar area allowed us to get some more realistic training and helped us better fit the scene in the scenario of what we were trying to accomplish. All the gear on us in order to sustain ourselves for those few days, we ended up making it work and we ended up doing really good work with the Australians by our side. That myself and my unit took away from this was that we can work cohesively with the Australian side by side and be able to accomplish any mission that Hire gives us.