 LAX is an exercise to get us ready for upcoming the Recount Force counter-recount. So we do a couple iterations of these. This is the first large scale one we're doing So we move out from Camp Lejeune. We employ radar systems, sensing abilities, UAS We tie it in to close the kill chain So next one, we've done a lot of field ops in the past the last couple weeks getting ready for this This is the first one that we're like actually out executing the mission So we've set up the the radar systems the sensing abilities before we've done the ranges. We've done The cammy painting up getting in the hide building building gillies driving around the utv's we've done all that separately This is the first time we're taking all the puzzle pieces and putting it all together So this is what the Marine Corps wants to do by 2030. This is the first iteration of this For the recount counter-recount So by doing this first lex, we're finding out the abilities the capabilities that we have And the deficiencies that we have not only in the marines in our training but in the gear So as we move forward going to lex 2 lex 3 lex 4 it's going to become more refined and we're writing the playbook for this stuff So you're taking guys from everywhere. So you're taking uh o3s You know lav crew members you're taking a normal rifleman and then you're taking radio operators You're putting them all on a platoon together. So like for the o3s especially like a lot of them They're starting to get hands on with the com gear. They're learning about the sensing capabilities that we have They're all going on courses getting up on the uas And then for me and corbel baker, who's the other 21? As radio operators, we've you know, we are attached to the grunts, but we're getting to do all the hands-on training So this is one of the first times that genuinely everyone in this platoon has to know everyone's job So by doing this lex We're all seeing how that plays out if you know baker and I are taken away Someone else has to step up and if one of the uas operators can't do their job You know, then we're not going to be in the fight the same way The common that's 2030 plan that we're implementing is the standard forces So in any littoral area if the we go to war full on with the peer-to-peer nation We need to be able to pull out any fleet in that area and then leave standing forces So the fleet can't go toe-to-toe with the anti air capabilities and the anti Fleet capabilities that other nations have so they pull out leave us on an island somewhere as the Adversary nation flows through let all their ships pass but collect on them as they go by And then once they're completely through we're collecting on any cargo ships supply chain ships So that we can feed that back to the fleet that we're in support of and they can fly and execute and destroy that target So it's not to directly combat the enemy, but it's to chop their legs out from under them So the training that we're doing right now directly ties in the 2030 plan Like I said, this is the first time this has ever been executed. This is the first time that A recount counter recount like this has been conducted So by doing this training we're again writing that we're writing the playbook for this This has never been done. So as the years go by and more and more of these Style deployments are being executed We'll be able to take the info and all the things we learned from this and pass it on to the Marines following us So they can execute it to the best of their ability This training is making us more lethal by raising our capabilities and a plethora of skills. So from uas Sensing radar passing all this back into the higher to the greater super architecture So that you know anyone in the world can hop on our super network You know as long as they have the correct classification and they're allowed to be on it And they could see what we're sensing on they can see all the data we're collecting And then closing the kill chain for not only the Marine Corps, but for the Navy side showing them that they can send four five six Marines In a single utv with sensing capabilities and uas and they can get all the eyes on the target you need So like lex one and the follow on lexes that we're planning all start here and like started You know yesterday when we got here and it's Making sure that everyone is capable on all these systems taking 27 Marines and being able to execute a mission Close the kill chain instead of sending hundreds of Marines So this is directly tying into like force plan 2030 what the commandant wants us to be able to do And it's the future of how we as a branch survive and make ourselves relevant All of this benefits the individual Marine by you're taking a single Marine and instead of them putting them in a Billet as a rifleman or as the radio operator attached You're making sure every Marine in that platoon Knows everyone's job you're making every Marine have to not be specialized but be a jack of all trades And people say jack of all trades but ace of none But when you take a unit of this size the amount of training that we're getting and the amount of courses that everyone's going through at the time is Far exceeding what any other unit is able to do right now because it's such a small unit So the individual Marine is coming out of this better trained better equipped to handle anything they do in the future Whether they go back to a more conventional unit or they continue on with doing a recount counter recount