WEBVTT 00:00.140 --> 00:02.140 Hi I'm specialist Hernandez and I'm 00:02.140 --> 00:04.196 here for the field training exercise 00:04.196 --> 00:06.418 for the french desert commando course . 00:06.418 --> 00:07.418 Let's go , 00:24.540 --> 00:25.150 mm hmm . 00:26.140 --> 00:30.740 The 00:30.750 --> 00:32.920 french desert commando course is a 00:32.930 --> 00:35.041 course designed for the United States 00:35.041 --> 00:37.208 to work with the french . It's the way 00:37.208 --> 00:39.430 that we could build foreign relations . 00:39.430 --> 00:41.652 And we also get the opportunity to kind 00:41.652 --> 00:41.250 of learn the techniques that the french 00:41.250 --> 00:43.361 would use in an environment like this 00:43.820 --> 00:46.690 teaches us different things for for 00:46.690 --> 00:49.530 desert survival . Um how to get water , 00:49.530 --> 00:51.752 shelter , things like that and then how 00:51.752 --> 00:53.974 to also operate um as the infantry in a 00:53.974 --> 00:56.086 desert environment today , we're more 00:56.086 --> 00:58.308 so focused on building the platoon that 00:58.308 --> 01:00.530 will bring over to the french . Um It's 01:00.530 --> 01:02.197 important that we make a good 01:02.197 --> 01:04.363 impression to the french so we want to 01:04.363 --> 01:06.697 make sure that the people that we bring , 01:06.697 --> 01:05.650 our good representation of who the 01:05.650 --> 01:07.872 United States Army is . We're trying to 01:07.872 --> 01:10.240 build who is the leadership positions 01:10.250 --> 01:12.250 and we're trying to narrow down the 01:12.250 --> 01:14.139 people that we have inside of the 01:14.139 --> 01:16.140 platoon today , we're teaching the 01:16.140 --> 01:18.196 basics so that everybody understands 01:18.196 --> 01:20.300 what is expected of them . Once they 01:20.300 --> 01:22.480 actually get to the course itself , we 01:22.480 --> 01:24.424 want to make sure that they're fit 01:24.424 --> 01:26.647 enough to do everything that the course 01:26.647 --> 01:26.570 requires them and that they're 01:26.570 --> 01:28.737 knowledgeable enough that they perform 01:28.737 --> 01:30.792 their standard up until 12 o'clock . 01:30.792 --> 01:32.959 We're gonna be teaching different like 01:32.959 --> 01:35.126 react contact ambushes . And then from 01:35.126 --> 01:37.126 one o'clock to probably around like 01:37.126 --> 01:39.181 five , we're gonna start moving down 01:39.181 --> 01:38.670 that way . I'm gonna give your P . L . 01:38.670 --> 01:40.837 U . P . S . G . A . Coordinate . We're 01:40.837 --> 01:43.170 gonna do a movement to set up an ambush . 01:43.180 --> 01:45.402 That's gonna be a majority of our day . 01:45.402 --> 01:46.513 It's just walking . 01:58.340 --> 01:59.340 Okay 01:59.710 --> 02:03.060 Right now we're doing a platoon 02:03.060 --> 02:06.810 movement going about 15 clicks 02:06.920 --> 02:10.560 or 15 km we're making sure we're moving 02:10.560 --> 02:13.370 out wedge formation so our guys can see 02:13.370 --> 02:17.290 us and we can see them . Yeah , mm 02:17.290 --> 02:18.846 hmm . That's a phenomenal . 02:32.410 --> 02:34.577 They're working on reacting to contact 02:34.577 --> 02:36.466 for the enemy that's down there . 02:36.466 --> 02:38.577 There's about four guys or notionally 02:38.577 --> 02:40.243 they're doing 10 , so they're 02:40.243 --> 02:42.354 communicating in the back right now , 02:42.354 --> 02:41.960 how are they going to flank the enemy ? 02:42.440 --> 02:45.030 And while these guys maintain the sport 02:45.040 --> 02:47.096 element and they maintain the fire , 02:47.110 --> 02:49.166 they're gonna have the salty element 02:49.166 --> 02:51.221 come around and then flank the enemy 02:51.221 --> 02:53.277 from the right . So I'm just working 02:53.277 --> 02:55.443 together as a platoon . Alright now we 02:55.443 --> 02:57.500 received contact at 12:00 right now 02:57.500 --> 02:59.730 horizontal , prone , waiting for other 02:59.730 --> 03:01.730 leadership and guidance to guide us 03:01.730 --> 03:03.952 through so we can conduct this movement 03:06.130 --> 03:06.850 forward . 03:23.540 --> 03:24.540 Mm hmm . 03:32.640 --> 03:34.360 Mhm mm hmm , 03:42.740 --> 03:45.360 mm hmm , mm hmm . 03:47.340 --> 03:50.170 We are currently staged for vehicular 03:50.180 --> 03:54.000 near ambush , waiting for the opt for 03:54.000 --> 03:57.390 to come along our way ah so we can 03:57.390 --> 04:00.770 engage them and clear the objective and 04:00.770 --> 04:04.700 then exhale back to the RP for follow 04:04.700 --> 04:08.150 on missions . Yes . Mhm . 04:13.740 --> 04:16.660 Okay . Like some type of like 04:16.670 --> 04:18.892 camouflage components going on and they 04:18.892 --> 04:20.320 got ripped off . Yes , 04:27.640 --> 04:30.660 mm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm mm hmm . 04:34.610 --> 04:36.770 This is a really important training 04:36.770 --> 04:38.826 opportunity for a lot of people they 04:38.826 --> 04:41.048 can do joint training with the french , 04:41.048 --> 04:43.214 learn a lot about them and why they're 04:43.214 --> 04:45.381 one of our allies as well as it gets , 04:45.381 --> 04:47.603 allows them to see our capabilities and 04:47.603 --> 04:49.714 we can see their capabilities . And I 04:49.714 --> 04:51.826 feel like being able to work together 04:51.826 --> 04:53.826 really like uh strengthens the bond 04:53.826 --> 04:53.360 between the french and the americans .