 Hi, I'm Specialist Hernandez and I'm here for the field training exercise for the French Desert Commando Course. Let's go! French Desert Commando Course is a course designed for the United States to work with the French. It's a way that we can build foreign relations and we also get the opportunity to kind of learn the techniques that the French would use in an environment like this. It teaches us different things for desert survival, how to get water, shelter, things like that and then how to also operate as the infantry in a desert environment. Today we're more so focused on building the platoon that we'll bring over to the French. It's important to us that we make good impression to the French so we want to make sure that the people that we bring are a good representation of who the United States Army is. We're trying to build who is the leadership positions and we're trying to narrow down the people that we have inside of the platoon. Today we're teaching the basics so that everybody understands what is expected of them once they actually get to the course itself. We want to make sure that they're fit enough to do everything that the course requires of them and that they're knowledgeable enough so that they perform their standard. Up until 12 o'clock we're going to be teaching different like react contact ambushes and then from one o'clock to probably around like five we're going to start moving down that way. I'm going to give your PL your PSG coordinate. We're going to do a movement to set up an ambush and that's going to be a majority of our day. It's just walking. The platoon movement going about 15 clicks or 15 kilometers. We're making sure we're moving in at wedge formation so our guys can see us and we can see them. That's it for now. They're working on reacting to contact for the enemy that's down there. There's about four guys or notionally they're doing 10. So they're communicating in the back right now how they're going to flank the enemy and while these guys maintain the support element and they maintain the fire they're going to have the assaulting element come around and flank the enemy from the right. So just working together as a platoon. All right now we're received contact at 12 o'clock. Right now we're going to prone. Just waiting for other leadership and guidance to guide us through so we can conduct this movement. For a vehicular near ambi for the OP4 to come along here we can engage them and clear the objective and then X fill back to the ORP for follow-on missions. Training opportunity for a lot of people they can do joint training with the French. Learn a lot about them and why they're one of our allies as well as it gets allows them to see our capabilities and we can see their capabilities and I feel like being able to work together really like strengthens the bond between the French and the Americans.