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This exercise is our demonstration of 

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our ability to engage agile combat 

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employment and the ability of us to 

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show how we can survive and operate in 

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a degraded environment with the threat 

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of conventional or chemical weapons . 

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This weekend's exercise , it is 

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designed to ensure that we are meeting 

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certain certain mission essential pass 

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certain metals that we need to 

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demonstrate our capabilities . So that 

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when we deploy , we know exactly what 

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we're doing . We've had this experience 

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and we know within ourselves , we're 

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confident in our own abilities and 

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confident in each other's abilities to 

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be able to deploy and execute the 

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things that we're tasked to do . We 

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have command and control . Uh So myself 

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as the base commander and I have Master 

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Sergeant Brown as my senior enlisted 

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leader . Uh We have a sts involved and 

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doing patient care . We've got a report 

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involved in doing aircraft , uploads , 

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downloads and tracking . We have civil 

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engineering involved and they are 

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building up tents in a remote location 

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for us . We have security forces 

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involved and they are protecting our 

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base , protecting us as well as 

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ensuring that we have security and 

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responding to any threats that may be 

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out there . We also have LRS involved . 

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We have vehicle maintenance from LRS 

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involved as well as PO LP doing 

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personnel accountability and we have 

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services doing troop feeding , which I 

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just came from and it was absolutely 

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delicious . We also have the chaplain 

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that's out here and the chaplain has 

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been amazing . He's been lifting 

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people's spirits . The went very 

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well . I feel like they did the 

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exercise to prepare us mentally for the 

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real world to just make sure that we 

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are trained to handle any situation 

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that comes our way . It can be hard if 

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you are not mentally prepared , I 

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learned to be more alert . Um I also 

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learned to pay attention to people 

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around me to pay attention to my 

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environment . The training this weekend 

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went really well . We had a great 

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opportunity to work with the other 

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squadrons at Maxwell and we don't 

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normally get to do that on the drill 

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weekends and it was really nice , you 

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know , getting around the other people 

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in the squadron . My experience this 

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weekend was really great . I thought it 

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was nice seeing the people out 

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there . You don't normally get , you 

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see them sometimes in the defect and 

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then you have an opportunity to 

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actually do real world experiences , 

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you know , exercises and , you know , 

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showing their ability to do the work 

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that they have been trained to do and 

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they actually get to put it to fruition . 

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Um , and actually seeing , you know , 

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what they do and they're proud of the 

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work and everyone that they have 

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trained really , really hard . And I 

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think that showing that they , they're 

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actually being able to show other 

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people what they do to make the whole 

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mission happen . And we couldn't do 

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anything with these exercises without 

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everybody being involved , being in a 

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leadership position this time around . 

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And actually having to bring in the 

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whole operations from looking at it 

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from the top down , the bigger picture 

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of stuff is a little bit different 

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because before it was always just being , 

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having an assignment , you play your 

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role and you stick to it this time , it 

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was a lot of movement . There was a lot 

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of changes which was really good in the 

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mission that , you know , you have to 

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flex in your position sometimes and 

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roles that you are uncomfortable with . 

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And I think that was a really good 

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opportunity for myself and many of the 

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air men to be put in positions that are 

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uncomfortable and watching them grow . 

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These type of exercises are always an 

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opportunity to learn more than what 

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you've known from the day prior . No 

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matter how much that you have had 

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experience in your career , you will 

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always find something else that you 

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need to learn . There's been times 

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where if you weren't able to have the 

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opportunity to do exercise , you would 

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probably never be in those positions 

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before . And it gives you an idea of 

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seeing other people doing stuff and 

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you're getting to learn from them as 

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well and you learn from their mistakes 

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and you learn from , you know what they 

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did good . And so the biggest thing 

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about these exercises is learning and 

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being able to teach what , you know , 

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you have people that have been in the 

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military , you know , for many years 

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and they're able to come down and bring 

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their knowledge and bring it down to 

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the young airmen . And that's what we 

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need . We need , you know , the 

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training to make sure that when we go 

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out the door and we're deployed that we 

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actually know what we're doing . And I 

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think these exercises are very , very 

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important to do . My expected result of 

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this training is that we will build 

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confidence in each other . We build 

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camaraderie because we're going through 

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the stuff together and we will 

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demonstrate our capabilities , what 

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will be certified and prepared to take 

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the next step towards our deployment 

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later on .