There was a real, there was an attitude of some people in the teams that like, hey, we don't need to do that. And so and we weren't even doing that kind of stuff just because of the largely urban focus combat of Iraq. We would foot patrol into these areas because you couldn't drive into them. If we hadn't done that, we wouldn't have been prepared for it. So I think those, but that, that BTF mantra, you know, was like, yeah, we're not looking at cut corners. We're looking at train hard. We's looking to push the standards higher.

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