How did you take guidance from above, get it to your commander, and then begin to process that as a staff so that he could do those vision things? And how you establish relationships to be able to start gathering the information and understanding your roles and responsibilities with those partners?

So when it comes to intent, the commander's vision, and essential tasks, this was really kind of a unique experience.

mission set because a lot of this came down directly from the White House.

So when President Trump took office, he signed Executive Order 14165 and 14167.

And in that, he used the terminology of sealing the U.S. southern border, and that was a direct task to U.S. NORTHCOM.

So we coordinated with Army North, but the JTF itself was a direct report to U.S. NORTHCOM.

Major General Scott Nouwen, who was the division commander of 10th Mountain, spent a lot of time trying to make sure we got the terminology correct from the strategic level all the way down to, you know, the division being the highest tactical level.

they went through JRTC, and we had done a warfighter with one ADC.