 I'm Petty Officer Alec Jacobs with your DOD news update. On Wednesday, Commander of U.S. Army Europe Lieutenant General Ben Hodges spoke to reporters at the Pentagon on the security environment in Europe. General Hodges discussed the differences between U.S. Army Europe's exercises and Russia's military exercises. The Russian snap exercises, you know, there's never an observer there. We find out about them when they're happening. And so that kind of capability that they have, where you could show up in a training area in Kaliningrad or Belarus or maybe both at the same time, you could see that's a threat, a concern that we have because of the lack of transparency. For more information on our operations in Europe head over to defense.gov.