 I'm Sergeant Shabak, I'm a LAD team leader and section leader for Alpha Battery, 2nd Platoon, 2nd Section. Some of the training we did today was called the Stale Shoot. It's a simulator to give the gunner representation of what the missile feels like leaving the tube and also the engagement sequence we go through when engaging a target. I'm Staff Sergeant Lucas, the 2nd Lab Battalion, I'm a platoon sergeant here at Alpha Battery, 2nd Platoon. Today we fired stales which is a Stinger training launching system. We do this quite often as we can. What it does is it's just to simulate the Stinger weapon system, taking that 34 pound missile and just launching the aluminum sleeve out of it. Just kind of simulate the the transition of that weight coming off that gunner's shoulder. It's important because you need to make sure that the information stays with the junior Marines and the NCOs stays in their mind. Keep them fresh and ready. Just in case anything wherever to pop off we need to execute the mission. LADUP is really big for us. It's basically we're a tight-knit group. We're a small group but we're tight-knit. So when we say LADUP we all get each other's back. We yell it, everyone comes running.