wanting to get ahead of the potential activation and making sure that these units have the time to prepare if, and only if, they re deployed. and then you have when will we know success. again, there has been no activation. so there is no mission assigned. so it is very difficult to give you a up check or a down check on what equates success. what sths about, though, is reassurance to our nato allies and we ve been talking about that for quite sometime. that we re going to be ready, we re going to be prepared to help bolster our allies, with capabilities they might need, and we re going to do this in lockstep with them and with the alliance. this is really about reassuring the eastern flank of nato and also about, and i kind of covered this, back to your question of success, it is proving how seriously the united states takes our commitment to nato and to the article 5