 Today was a joint combined arms live fire between French and U.S. forces. Honestly, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for all the soldiers out here. It's critical culminating exercise for both sides to practice this skill set they've been working on and they've honed over the past year. The ultimate goal of this exercise is with the French is to build trust and interoperability. This trust allows both forces to create a shared understanding to defeat communications barriers, understand joint tactics and enhance combat readiness under live fire conditions. It was a really good learning experience to compare and contrast our different tactics, our different equipment in order to make this a successful mission and live fire exercise. I was able to take away that while we're not involved in offensive combat operations here in Djibouti, we were able to show from this exercise that we could conduct a large-scale operation with our allies including multiple different assets from ground troops to mounted troops, air, artillery, mortars and cavalry as well. Personally for me and the soldiers out here, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and they've had the ability to share stories, share common tactics and these are memories these guys will have for a lifetime.