 The 1st and 91st Cavalry Squadron Alpha Troop is the main maneuver element but supporting them is a platoon of engineers from the Spanish forces, a platoon of PT-91 tanks from the Polish forces and myself with the gun battery from M777s from Canada. From my personal experience, I've learned something new every single time I've ran in support of fire from the lowest soldier level to my position now. I think it's extremely beneficial. It's showing to the world that we, America, are ready to support and defend all of our NATO allies. It's a challenge but it's very much beneficial to myself and my soldiers. The ability to work together is crucial for our nations. The Spanish Shield is to confirm 1st and 91st Cavalry Squadron's troops in their execution of their RECI tasks. My role in it as the gun battery commander is to support their maneuver with artillery fires. We're here in Latvia to train together with our NATO allies. It's absolutely crucial to practice this in a training scenario so if we ever had to go on operations together, we'd be able to work together proficiently. It's been great training, not without its hurdles and challenges, but the warrior spirit and the effort of every soldier I've worked with from every nation has been top notch. Makes all the challenges easy. My troops were lining up both the door to get a chance to come on this mission. For those that are here, it's been a great opportunity unlike anything they've had in their careers before. My crew actually was put together very quickly on a quick notice from our Chief of Defense staff. We deployed over here about six weeks from start to finish and we trained up very quickly with 1st to 91st and their chaos battery to get proficient and now we're executing live fire training together. It confirms our training back in Canada to be able to come here and operate very quickly in a new training environment.