 Sergeant Major Eva Commins, Command Sergeant Major for HHBN, A Second Airborne Division. We're here for swift response, part of the Defender Europe exercise here in Europe. We're currently in Romania right now. So we went through a series of training up events before coming here, rehearsals and exercises prior to coming here to set up the large scale exercise. Then we all loaded an aircraft, flew over here, dropped off some of our soldiers in Estonia. The rest of us flew here to Romania. Once we got on the ground we started setting up our talk here, our tactical command center here in Romania and we've been exercising our command systems and our communication nodes with our international partners here since we got here on day two. So anybody that was coming from the 82nd to participate in this exercise was going to be double vaccinated plus 14 days to ensure that we were being safe one with each other, two with our international partners and three just with the world and not spreading COVID anywhere unnecessarily doing everything that we can to keep it from spreading and keep ourselves safe. We've done several joint forceful entries where we've had large number of international task force jump into various locations to rehearse if we needed to do this against an aggressor. So we've had our third brigade combat team with several international partners jump in Estonia and the other day we with several of our international partners jumped into a drop zone here in Romania. So it's one is very eye opening it's very interesting and useful to see how different organizations do things differently and to compare the way we do things in the United States Army versus Romanian or Estonian or Italian military. So it's very nice to be able to compare and get share ideas and share how to accomplish missions. So it's great to be able to know that as we do these exercises if we do need to do this in real life we're we know we're fully capable of doing it because we've done it so many times over and over again during exercises it'll be no different if we have to do it for real. So we take our NATO agreements very seriously and we know that if we need help our NATO partners will be there to help us and if they need help we're going to go and help our NATO partners. So doing these exercises ensure that if that day does come that we can work together we can communicate we can we have a good understanding of each other's way of doing things and what each other can bring which each of us can bring to the table so how we can best either defeat an aggressor or protect a nation against a threat if we have to. So for me personally it was a great experience to interact with all of our different LNOs from all of the different countries and to speak with them and have you know conversations with them and get to know them. There's so many different cultures in the world and being in the Army getting to travel you get to see it a little bit but you really don't experience it until you sit down with other people and like I said share each other's experiences and talk so I'm very glad to have gotten to do that a lot during this trip with the LNOs from several different nations here. So us being set up here helped us to be able to provide a command and control element of the various other entities that we have task organized under us and we are essentially located or in a prime position to enable us to do that from Romania while we have other forces fighting it notionally in Estonia. We could really do this in any location that is ideal for us to be able to set up our communications but this location specifically for this exercise we were jumping our ACP was going to jump into Romania into Bobac drop zone so we set up our hard site building here at MK Airbase. So the 82nd is the only division size element that the Army has that can jump into a fight jump into a drop zone anywhere in the world. We can be wheels up from Fort Bragg in 18 hours with a package ready to go to land somewhere and engage whoever we need to so 82nd does a swift response exercise every year to continue to refine that capability if we're jumping in somewhere overseas we're most likely going to have our nation our international partners with us. We had five different countries dropping out of airplanes yesterday on one drop zone so again just doing this keeps us ready for if we need to do it for real helps us to hone our skills of you know jumping and leading an organization in combat if necessary and excited just helps always to refine and enhance our international relations with our NATO partners.