WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:01.953 Sure . I'm uh sergeant first class 00:01.953 --> 00:05.769 James Maltese . That's Ma Ltaisj 00:05.780 --> 00:08.279 am ES , I'm with the 772 military 00:08.289 --> 00:10.289 police company of the Massachusetts 00:10.289 --> 00:12.400 National Guard . Well , our main task 00:12.400 --> 00:14.289 as a military police company here 00:14.289 --> 00:16.511 during our annual training period is to 00:16.511 --> 00:18.610 talk with uh the Kenyan armed forces 00:18.620 --> 00:20.620 and talk about what they can do for 00:20.620 --> 00:22.898 their military police . We're actually , 00:22.898 --> 00:24.898 I have eight of them assigned to my 00:24.898 --> 00:27.064 platoon talking about how they utilize 00:27.064 --> 00:29.009 military police in Kenya . Um Talk 00:29.009 --> 00:31.176 about our differences and similarities 00:31.176 --> 00:33.287 and then train on less lethal weapons 00:33.287 --> 00:32.540 tactics . What we're out here on the 00:32.549 --> 00:34.740 range today doing and how we can use 00:34.750 --> 00:37.700 that to aid them with crowd dispersal 00:37.709 --> 00:39.876 at eight states and different types of 00:39.876 --> 00:42.042 situations where less lethal munitions 00:42.042 --> 00:44.098 would come in handy . So it's uh , I 00:44.098 --> 00:46.153 mean , we're representing the United 00:46.153 --> 00:48.209 States army being here where the big 00:48.209 --> 00:50.376 the biggest footprint of army soldiers 00:50.376 --> 00:52.487 that I see here amongst me around 800 00:52.487 --> 00:54.265 or so people , most of them are 00:54.265 --> 00:56.487 Massachusetts National Guard . So we're 00:56.487 --> 00:58.653 representing the United States and the 00:58.653 --> 00:58.650 US Army here . And Massachusetts is 00:58.659 --> 01:00.700 kind of spearheading that with 01:00.709 --> 01:02.799 supporting the Kenyan military and 01:02.810 --> 01:05.330 their goals here in Kenya . So our 01:05.339 --> 01:07.120 overall soldiers impact here at 01:07.129 --> 01:09.699 Justified Accord was to have uh our 01:09.709 --> 01:13.050 Army Guard MP S and the Kenyan 01:13.150 --> 01:15.769 Army MP S talk about our similar 01:15.800 --> 01:17.856 similarities and differences , train 01:17.856 --> 01:19.856 each other up on some of the things 01:19.856 --> 01:22.078 that we do that might be different than 01:22.078 --> 01:24.300 from each other . And specifically here 01:24.300 --> 01:26.467 in the range . Today , we're doing our 01:26.467 --> 01:28.411 less lethal munitions capabilities 01:28.411 --> 01:30.633 talking about how we could use those in 01:30.633 --> 01:32.744 crowd dispersal at aid stations or in 01:32.744 --> 01:34.689 other situations where less lethal 01:34.689 --> 01:36.633 munitions would be the appropriate 01:36.633 --> 01:38.578 response rather than just having a 01:38.578 --> 01:40.633 lethal response . Oh , well , I know 01:40.633 --> 01:42.578 each day we have a different uh um 01:42.940 --> 01:45.051 different mission set each day as far 01:45.051 --> 01:47.107 as what we're doing here uh with the 01:47.107 --> 01:49.162 armed Kenyan armed forces . So today 01:49.162 --> 01:51.218 we're doing live fire rangers . That 01:51.218 --> 01:53.329 was our mission today . Over the next 01:53.329 --> 01:55.496 three days , we're doing a combination 01:55.496 --> 01:58.489 of traffic control point , um Quick 01:58.500 --> 02:01.290 response forces and a culminating event 02:01.300 --> 02:03.356 with that . We're , we're doing site 02:03.356 --> 02:05.522 security , bringing those two other uh 02:05.522 --> 02:07.411 training events together with the 02:07.411 --> 02:09.633 Kenyan army partners uh integrated with 02:09.633 --> 02:11.744 us . So we're , we're doing a mission 02:11.744 --> 02:13.856 one day talking about traffic control 02:13.856 --> 02:13.630 points . Another day , we're doing the 02:13.639 --> 02:15.861 QR F and then the following day , we're 02:15.861 --> 02:17.917 bringing that together both of those 02:17.917 --> 02:19.861 plus a critical site security . So 02:19.861 --> 02:22.083 multiple missions , I mean , we're here 02:22.083 --> 02:24.139 for about 14 days and we're probably 02:24.139 --> 02:25.972 doing 10 missions within 14 days 02:25.972 --> 02:28.195 training that with the Kenyans Military 02:28.195 --> 02:30.417 Police Company , with the Massachusetts 02:30.417 --> 02:30.000 Army National Guard , uh , been 16 02:30.009 --> 02:32.231 years in August . So , uh , I guess the 02:32.231 --> 02:34.398 biggest reason I was bored , I already 02:34.398 --> 02:36.509 had a good job and I always wanted to 02:36.509 --> 02:38.565 join the military . So , uh , once I 02:38.565 --> 02:40.620 kind of kept myself settled in there 02:40.620 --> 02:39.869 and , like , I still wanna do something 02:39.880 --> 02:42.490 else . I joined the National Guard . Uh , 02:42.500 --> 02:44.667 I've been in law enforcement for about 02:44.667 --> 02:46.889 six full as a full time law enforcement 02:46.889 --> 02:49.056 guy for about 16 years now as well . I 02:49.056 --> 02:51.111 joined up with the state , uh , as a 02:51.111 --> 02:53.444 correction officer just before I became , 02:53.444 --> 02:55.667 uh a guardsman . Uh , and uh about five 02:55.667 --> 02:55.449 years ago I became a trooper with them . 02:55.460 --> 02:57.571 So it's , it's a good bounce back and 02:57.571 --> 02:59.627 forth between my full time state job 02:59.627 --> 03:01.904 and being a national guardsman . It is . 03:01.904 --> 03:04.071 Yeah , my first time . So I've been to 03:04.071 --> 03:06.238 South America with , with the military 03:06.238 --> 03:08.404 and I've been to Canada and , and , uh 03:08.404 --> 03:10.460 America , but I've never been , I've 03:10.460 --> 03:12.682 never been to Europe or Africa my first 03:12.682 --> 03:14.738 time over the over the ocean . So my 03:14.738 --> 03:14.389 job here at Justified Accord is , I'm a 03:14.399 --> 03:16.720 platoon sergeant , second platoon 7772 03:16.729 --> 03:19.429 MP S . And , uh today I was the NCYC 03:19.440 --> 03:21.607 and RO for this range out here working 03:21.607 --> 03:23.662 with the , uh my , our international 03:23.662 --> 03:25.884 partners here , having the Kenyan Armed 03:25.884 --> 03:27.884 Forces integrated in with us . It's 03:27.884 --> 03:27.869 awesome seeing the similarities , you 03:27.880 --> 03:29.824 know , some of the things that you 03:29.824 --> 03:31.936 wouldn't realize that . Hey , I guess 03:31.936 --> 03:34.213 everyone does and then the things that , 03:34.213 --> 03:33.149 oh , you do something completely 03:33.160 --> 03:34.938 different with that . Um , it's 03:34.938 --> 03:36.493 interesting to , to see the 03:36.493 --> 03:38.549 similarities and differences talking 03:38.549 --> 03:40.716 about that stuff , what we have common 03:40.716 --> 03:40.389 ground on and then teaching each other 03:40.479 --> 03:42.759 the nuances that make us different . So 03:42.770 --> 03:44.826 it's very cool and it's not just the 03:44.826 --> 03:46.826 Kenyan guys , it's everybody that's 03:46.826 --> 03:48.826 here . So , um , II , I guess the , 03:48.826 --> 03:48.750 probably the best thing I like about 03:48.759 --> 03:50.926 being here in Justified Accord is that 03:50.926 --> 03:52.815 I'm in Africa and never been here 03:52.815 --> 03:54.870 before . And I get to take , uh , 25 03:54.870 --> 03:56.981 soldiers to in my platoon to Africa . 03:56.981 --> 03:58.981 Most of them , I think maybe one of 03:58.981 --> 04:01.037 them has been to Africa before I zig 04:01.037 --> 04:03.148 back , but the vast majority , no one 04:03.148 --> 04:05.370 has been here before in my platoon . So 04:05.370 --> 04:07.592 it's all a very new and life experience 04:07.592 --> 04:06.919 though . Everyone's gonna remember this 04:06.929 --> 04:09.096 for the rest of their life . Coming to 04:09.096 --> 04:11.151 Africa . My most memorable moment in 04:11.151 --> 04:11.020 the army and it's kind of a morbid 04:11.029 --> 04:13.140 thing . I spent a lot of time working 04:13.140 --> 04:15.362 with funeral owners with the military . 04:15.362 --> 04:17.362 I've got about five years of active 04:17.362 --> 04:19.362 duty with funeral owners and taking 04:19.362 --> 04:21.473 home some of the ki a soldiers that , 04:21.473 --> 04:24.049 uh , um , were my age or younger than 04:24.059 --> 04:26.226 me is kind of , it was emotional thing 04:26.226 --> 04:28.448 that I'll be very rememberable for it . 04:28.448 --> 04:30.559 So that's , that's probably the first 04:30.559 --> 04:29.579 thing that always comes to , comes to 04:29.589 --> 04:31.533 mind with . I think of my military 04:31.533 --> 04:33.589 career . The second biggest thing is 04:33.589 --> 04:35.422 recently when I became a platoon 04:35.422 --> 04:37.645 sergeant in platoon that I grew up in . 04:37.645 --> 04:39.756 And my first sergeant was my , one of 04:39.756 --> 04:41.922 my first platoon sergeants . Um It was 04:41.922 --> 04:44.033 an awesome feeling that I get to have 04:44.033 --> 04:46.089 an impact on these soldiers now as a 04:46.089 --> 04:48.311 platoon sergeant with them . And now my 04:48.311 --> 04:50.478 first sergeant is a good friend that I 04:50.478 --> 04:52.700 grew up with in high school . So it's a 04:52.700 --> 04:54.922 great command team that we have a great 04:54.922 --> 04:56.978 NCO leadership that , that as a team 04:56.978 --> 04:56.739 that we have here in the company . And 04:56.750 --> 04:58.972 that's just a great feeling that I have 04:58.972 --> 04:59.940 now moving forward in my career .