WEBVTT 00:05.500 --> 00:08.119 Exercise cartwheel began as a very low 00:08.229 --> 00:11.000 level of exercise five years ago in 00:11.010 --> 00:14.220 2019 . Now today it has blossomed into 00:14.229 --> 00:16.639 a complex multilateral multinational 00:16.649 --> 00:19.270 event ranging from repelling the live 00:19.280 --> 00:21.559 fire exercise among many nations . This 00:21.569 --> 00:24.629 exercise called art reinforces bonds , 00:24.649 --> 00:27.450 literally forced over 82 years ago in 00:27.459 --> 00:28.459 World War Two , 00:31.370 --> 00:33.592 building relations and proficiency with 00:33.592 --> 00:35.814 other nations . So we're standing right 00:35.814 --> 00:38.037 now , we just completed a combined arms 00:38.037 --> 00:39.870 live fire breach with the French 00:39.870 --> 00:41.870 Infantry and an engineer squad from 00:41.870 --> 00:44.092 Switzerland engine company . What we're 00:44.092 --> 00:43.950 doing is we're just conducting 00:43.959 --> 00:45.830 exercises with the other nations 00:45.840 --> 00:48.270 developing TTP S relationships and 00:48.279 --> 00:50.112 rehearsing movements to and from 00:50.112 --> 00:53.159 locations like Fiji . What makes us 00:53.169 --> 00:55.979 successful is being able to establish 00:55.990 --> 00:58.046 that rapport with the other NCOS and 00:58.046 --> 01:00.157 officers that are out executing these 01:00.157 --> 01:02.268 lanes from the American engineer unit 01:02.268 --> 01:04.323 here , the Republic of Fiji military 01:04.323 --> 01:04.300 force and the French and the 01:04.309 --> 01:06.531 Australians in establishing that common 01:06.531 --> 01:08.753 operating picture of how we do things . 01:08.753 --> 01:10.920 And fortunately with Western countries 01:10.920 --> 01:12.976 and then the Fijians working with us 01:12.976 --> 01:15.031 and the training they've gotten from 01:15.031 --> 01:17.031 the Australians on the base level . 01:17.031 --> 01:19.142 It's kind of the same and universal . 01:19.142 --> 01:18.589 So we can still talk the same language 01:18.599 --> 01:22.089 when it comes to war fighting . We 01:22.099 --> 01:24.809 don't have any training in Fiji based 01:24.819 --> 01:26.652 on repelling . We don't have any 01:26.652 --> 01:28.819 schools that teach us repelling . This 01:28.819 --> 01:30.986 is most of us . It's the first time we 01:30.986 --> 01:33.041 learn from them , they learn from us 01:33.041 --> 01:36.769 and it's a combination . We need 01:36.779 --> 01:38.890 experts in these austere environments 01:38.890 --> 01:41.001 that we don't operate in a day to day 01:41.001 --> 01:43.223 basis . Us as National Guard soldiers . 01:43.223 --> 01:45.279 We have uh desert and uh forests and 01:45.279 --> 01:47.335 snow , not as much a jungle or rainy 01:47.335 --> 01:49.446 environment , but it really will take 01:49.446 --> 01:51.668 the locals and those foreign militaries 01:51.668 --> 01:53.779 who are experts in those environments 01:53.779 --> 01:56.001 and those cultures to be able to lend a 01:56.001 --> 01:58.168 hand to the US and say this is how you 01:58.168 --> 02:00.390 do it . This is how you're gonna here . 02:00.390 --> 02:02.390 This is a stepping stone that as we 02:02.390 --> 02:04.501 know there's there's possible threats 02:04.501 --> 02:06.612 in the Pacific and this is crucial to 02:06.612 --> 02:08.446 continue to build and strengthen 02:08.446 --> 02:10.557 relationships for possible threats in 02:10.557 --> 02:12.723 the future . And not only that just we 02:12.723 --> 02:14.890 now know from this exercise how to get 02:14.890 --> 02:17.057 troops , equipment and explosives from 02:17.057 --> 02:19.279 Reno Nevada to Nadi Fiji . So those are 02:19.279 --> 02:21.501 all huge strategic plans for the Nevada 02:21.501 --> 02:20.735 National Guard .