 I'm Lieutenant Colonel Ryan Case. I'm the Battalion Commander for 127 Infantry out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii with the Wolfhound Battalion, part of 2nd Brigade 25th Infantry Division. So we're here in the Philippines. We are the Army Battalion that is on ground as part of 2nd Brigade 25th ID. We're here for multiple reasons. We're here to first build readiness within our unit. Also build a stronger partnership with the Filipino Army that has been working with us throughout Sao Kittin and Balakitane and lastly also working with the Joint Environment trying to improve joint relations and also build that capability throughout all the military. So Balakitane for me and my unit is before building readiness for our unit but also this is the first time that we have fought in a joint environment to this extent. So we will be continuing on with Balakitane moving further north and operating from the USS Miguel Keith doing joint aerosols with our Marine partners and also our Filipino partners. Okay so at Sarab we've been here for the past week and we've been conducting platoon live fires and with that for the platoon live fires we have indirect fire assets. We have aerosol assets. We have UH-60s and Chinooks. Then we also have Apache support for throughout this exercise and so far we're running three companies through the platoon live fires a total of nine US platoons three Filipino platoons and one Australian platoon. So it's important that we're training with both the Filipinos and Australians and ourselves and the Marine units out here to ensure that if we are called to fight in this region that we know how to fight together how each other fights and that we're able to understand the interoperability if that's the human the technical or the process part of each of that of interoperability make sure that we understand how each formation fights so that when we fight together we are one continuous unit that can achieve our objectives. I hope our service members take away from this exercise is the first foremost for the army we are the jungle unit so we want to make sure that we can fight in all types of jungles and this jungle is a lot more complex and complicated than the jungle on Hawaii so taking that away and we've learned a lot about the jungle from our Filipino partners and how to move and how to fight in it is also how to fight and train with the Filipinos and the other joint sister services within the military. The best part about this is watching our soldiers interact especially with the Filipino army and seeing and learning from them but also learning about them also and seeing what kind of the differences and the similarities between how we do fight and also just us as people so working with the other services from the other nations it's been great honestly we've learned just as much from them than they've that they've learned from us they've learned a lot from at the staff level from us but honestly at the platoon and below level I think that we've learned you know equal if not more from our partners out there really just learn how to fight in this environment and also how to train