1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,540 Captain Noah Riley. I'm a pilot in the 36 Airlift Squadron and the Airborne 25 mission commander. 2 00:00:03,540 --> 00:00:08,690 Airborne 25 is an annual event we do with the JGSDF, and it's their largest airborne drop. 3 00:00:08,690 --> 00:00:12,330 Single drop operation that they do, over the course of the year. So it's a really big deal for them. 4 00:00:12,330 --> 00:00:15,300 It's one of the largest ones that we do. They have a whole ground scenario 5 00:00:15,300 --> 00:00:18,480 that they're going to do, out at Fuji Training Area for about a week. 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,870 We're essentially just doing the airborne insertion part of their operation. 7 00:00:21,870 --> 00:00:26,540 So after we do their air drop and get them out the door, they will continue to do their training. 8 00:00:26,540 --> 00:00:30,510 And we'll just come back to Yokota, but we're in charge of getting them to the objective. 9 00:00:30,510 --> 00:00:33,840 The planning process has been a lot more in-depth this time, as we're 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,840 getting better and better at working together, doing larger scale operations together. 11 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:45,720 It's a really great opportunity for us to work with our JGSDF partners and a foreign military. A great opportunity to promote interoperability 12 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:52,510 between the JGSDF and the US forces as well. It's great training for us and them and working on working 13 00:00:52,510 --> 00:00:58,510 together essentially. If something does kick off, we know that we are capable and very good at working together.