 Naval forces' Africa sailors and multinational maritime forces successfully completed Cutlass Express. These sailors, along with African and European counterparts, practiced search and seizure tactics and information sharing to combat piracy and illegal fishing in the waters off East Africa. This exercise aims to ensure maritime safety and security across the region. We basically want a stable region where the collective group of countries that are participating in this effort can stabilize the area, keep the waters safe, stop piracy, stop illegal fishing, stop smuggling, and just make it an overall control of the sea. The week-long operation challenged the boarding teams to conduct import and at sea activities while enhancing their vessel boarding, medical response, and radio communication skills. Members eagerly faced the scenarios and effectively completed all missions. They did pretty well. I did it last year. I did it this year. I've seen an improvement. There are some challenges, technological challenges, some cultural challenges, but the main goals to improve our ability to control the maritime environments, it's definitely gotten better. With new skills in hand, the forces are stronger and are able to work together as one team over the long term. Reporting from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I'm Staff Sergeant Ashley Manns.