 My name is Captain Brian Burling. I'm the company commander for Transportation Company Alpha, Third Transportation Battalion. We are training out here. Our company got the unique opportunity based on our busy schedule. We had a little bit of white space where we could afford to take most of the company out to the field and focus on some internal training. We are inherently a support organization. We exist to provide medium and heavy tactical lift to 12th Marines and general support to MOG units. So the chance to come out here and perfect our individual and collective skills are rare. But even though we are inherently a support organization, we need to be able to stay alive on the battlefield. And that's what we focused on during this training exercise. We hit some of the motor transport wickets, some of the basic skills, conduct motor transport operations, conduct tactical convoy operations, conduct recovery operations, conduct refueling operations. But we tried to do all of those with a flair for tactical proficiency, staying alive on the battlefield, and trying to acknowledge a future operating environment which we might find ourselves in. So we really focused on dispersion, cover and concealment of our vehicles, individual immediate and remedial actions. If we exist to provide a medium and heavy tactical lift to supported units, we have to stay alive on the battlefield in order to do that. And we got a great opportunity out here this week to train to those skills. The purpose of these drills and situations is really to gain proficiency. We live by the saying a thousand times an expert. So it's all about repetitions. And so the more repetitions we can get at again some of those basic motor transport skills with a flair for tactical proficiency, the better. So we got a lot of repetitions on conducting convoy operations and specifically conducting immediate actions to situations we might face while conducting motor transport convoy operations to include ID discovery, ID detonation, complex ambush. We even got into how to set up a traffic control point. Convoy ups are so important specifically on the ground side of the Marine Corps because that's our chosen method of transportation. These trucks are what get people and things from point A to point B on the battlefield. And again, it's not just driving on the road. We need to be able to stay alive on the battlefield. We need to be able to know our enemy, have a situation awareness of what a future operating environment might be and train to that. And again, staying alive on the battlefield in order to facilitate combat operations.