 During his recent visit to U.S. Army Europe, Secretary of the Army John McHugh observed multinational training exercises in the Baltics and at the Joint Multinational Training Command. I've been to a lot of places and the one common theme is that I've found great Army soldiers, men and women proudly serving alongside each other and as we've seen in recent days, the deployment out to Latvia and Lithuania and Estonia and Poland and by airborne units of 173rd showed that all the soldiers in this part of the world are ready to go forward as called. The fact of the matter is Europe for the United States remains the focal point of our most staunch allies and it's helped refocus a lot of folks on the importance of continuing to build confidence in partnership with our NATO allies continuing to ensure that as our requirements under Article 5 of the NATO Charter say we're prepared to defend our allies against wherever an attack may come. From U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs, Aaron Harmon reporting.