 My name is Sergeant 1st Class Kevin Payne, I'm with Cascade Company of 2nd Battalion 5th Security Forces Assistance Brigade. I'm Staff Sergeant Kyle Gersbach and I'm a member of Cascade Company 2nd Battalion 5th SFAB. My name is Staff Sergeant Hockus Albert, I'm in Beggar Company 2nd Battalion 5th SFAB. My name is Staff Sergeant Michael Katanzaro, I'm in Cascade Company 2nd Battalion 5th SFAB which is Security Forces Assistance Brigade. It's very important for us, it's been on our radar for a while knowing that our brigade is aligned to Indo Paycom and knowing that a lot of our partner forces are going to be working in jungle areas and the majority of the AOR is a jungle region. So getting this course is a pretty big deal for us because it gives us the opportunity to familiarize ourselves with the areas that we're going to be working with ahead of time before we go work with our partner forces. Coming to a school like this gives us the opportunity to see terrain and to see tactics that are slightly unfamiliar to us and allows us to kind of get a better understanding of what we could be going into and then it helps us plan for those contingencies going forward. Again the training on ground and in depth on how to do tactical operations within the jungle which will then provide us the ability to advise brigade, company and other commanders in the Pacific. Rain, terrain, terrain, that is going to be the hugest factor. Any country we go to there's going to be a jungle like this in the Pacific so everybody in 5th SFAB should be coming to this because they'll have a better understanding on tactics and operations in this environment. We did a lot of running and practice our knots. Just focusing on my knots, just tying knots over and over and over to get ready for this course. We did a lot of running to make sure that we were able to complete the jungle 5k in the time standard and we did a lot of rucking and walking as well just to make sure that we got our feet ready to be able to move through this environment. Ten days of just practicing knots and running every day so that way we were up to standard for this course.