 I'm a Staff Sergeant Kyle Bender. I'm with the second MCTD First Brigade 86 training division. A year analysis test is essentially we have soldiers come in, they're under observation, they donate a sample of urine, we then package it up following chain of custody to make sure it isn't tampered with or anything like that and then we ship it off to a facility. Once it gets there they actually run it through a bunch of testing, multiple levels of validation to make sure that it is either positive or negative. If it comes up positive it goes through another round and another round of testing to make sure it's an actual true positive and not a false positive. The main reason it's important is not necessarily a gotcha moment of trying to capture soldiers and be like oh ha ha you're busted. It's really about trying to prevent soldiers from going down that road. Knowing that we're doing these year analysis is we'll get soldiers to realize that if I'm doing drugs it's like I'm going to be caught. By getting them to think that way they're not likely to go down that road and if they are already going down that road seeing that you're doing these tests they can step forward and ask for help. A good thing with the UPL program it is unit prevention leaders. It's built around actually helping the soldier help themselves. If they come forward and mention something ahead of time they don't have to go through this messy thing where they get separated. They get a chance to go through rehab, get treatment, get support and potentially save their career and stay with the force. Pape work has changed more than I thought it would. Little things like changes to what you can write on different spots, being unable to change the bottle labels. Documentation has changed a lot more than I was expecting which means that if I would have gone forward with what I knew before I would have had a lot of things dumped out and a lot of red flags coming back to the unit. The biggest thing is I'm going to be able to actually perform a UPL with COVID and everything else going on. We haven't had a year analysis in a while so we'll be able to actually conduct one of those. Honestly I'm actually pretty passionate about the UPL program. I've been doing it for six almost seven years now. Thanks to some family issues I got to see firsthand what drugs do so anything I can do to prevent other people going down that road is pretty important to me. Probably the biggest reason I want to go into the UPL and bring stuff back to the unit.