 Cadena Soldiers with First Battalion First Air Defense Artillery Regiment hosted Marines from the Tactical Air Operations Center and Airmen from the 623rd Air Control Flight for a sight tour of the Patriot Air Defense Weapon System. What we did here today, a very rare opportunity we get to come train and see how some of our other brother and sister units operate. As an Air Defense unit, we don't have any firing batteries organic to us. So this is a good opportunity for us to come out here and see how a firing unit would operate in the field and how we as an Air Control Unit could interface with them. The Marines and Airmen were briefed on the First Air Defense Artillery's mission on Okinawa, paving the way for future training exercises between these units. Marine Corporal Chelsea Steinbrescher Hoffman, Cadena Air Base, Okinawa.