Bye. The Navy Office of Community Outreach welcomes you to the third day of virtual Navy Week, New Jersey here to issue a Navy Week proclamation representing the first Congressional District of New Jersey Representative Donald Norcross Good morning and thank you for that introduction. I'm a proud member of the Armed Services Committee in the Subcommittee, CW projection forces and I'm here to welcome you to the New Jersey Navy League 2020. I wanna say. The Chamber of Commerce, South Jersey Development Council in the Navy for hosting this event. My colleagues and I are extremely proud of the Navy sisters and accomplishments, especially during this difficult time today. I'm honored to present the Navy with two proclamations, one from the state of New Jersey and one from the US House of Representatives. You've can see both of these here hopefully that we have and will physically send it over it goes on to talk about. How proud we are of the accomplishments of Navy and what their service members do day in and day out literally around the world that importance of the mission to promote American prosperity advance, our interests, preserve peace and protect our homeland can't be overstated today in New Jersey's home 5700 sellers 1400 officers a thousand 50 reserves at 4300 retirees. I'd like to express my deepest gratitude. Forces veterans and their families for without your sacrifices. We wouldn't be here right up The Street from me literally is a battleship New Jersey, one of our nation's most decorated ships, 19 battlestar, and it reminds people in this area day in and day out with the Navy has done and I wanna thank the executive Director Philip Rowell for what he does each and every day, but it's my great honor to introduce to you. Admiral. Who is going to give a presentation the Navy The nation needs he's from Highland Park just North of here and a fellow New Jersey, and he has a distinguished pool. 30 - one -year career It has excelled many signs, including over 69 combat missions, 3900 flight hours. He's been a legislative fellow worked up on the Hill. certainly a great value to us and he is now the Defense Official Defense Act for European in London England. I hope you enjoy the presentation and I'll turn it over to you. Go Navy. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's a great honor to be here. It's an honor to have that great introduction to so thank you and thank you for serving our nation as well. so while they're New Jersey, it's great to be among fellow New Jersey and even if it is just virtual it's it's unfortunate that I couldn't get there. But of course, no one can get anywhere and this is the best get to where we can so today I just wanna talk to you about our of the nation the our nation needs and for our Commission so. oh, a roll right into that Carsons the USS New Jersey back window just a few minutes ago and it's just a fantastic ship and it really is a question of power or maybe I'll give you a little flavor of that today as we as we go forward. it's just today I just wanna outline for you. what what your Navy does for you and what our mission is I say during because the mission of America's Navy it''s since the beginning of our nation and our nation. Navy ready to fight today and our commitment to the training maintenance and modernization will also ensure that's fit and fit for tomorrow. So I'll deliver this in just a second. I'll Let Dustin pick up on a few things before we continue, but I'm just excited as you can tell by our Navy's, it doesn't back to you. Thank you sir, and we will queue up the brief for the American public to learn more about the Navy that their nation needs. So, these are those moments of silence that we have for our video world today as everybody kind of adjust to it. We have one of this happen This morning. We're trying to talk to the Secretary of State of defense for the United Kingdom and They fortunately the the technical, which was not on our side. It was on their side so the ambassador I had a little laugh about that. We just kinda moved on, but this is this is the world. It's a it's a bigger challenge to to stay connected so Dustin thanks for your expertise on there as it rolls up and there it is on the screen. so I feel much better about that. So you go. In the next slide, if you would He's gonna flip for me today and I'll be I'll be gentle on your mat and I'll give you a good on that. So as I said, my name is a real emerald Monro It''s comes from pointed out I met from New Jersey, New Jersey. I grew up there. My parents still live there and I still have a relatives down in the South Jersey and they proudly are in Congressman Norcross across the district interestingly enough, so I still have a lot of roots back there and. Jerseys in my heart and in my head all the time I've been in the Navy for almost 32 years now, it's been exciting. It's it's it's an exciting career. today. I'm at the senior defense official in the United Kingdom. I was thrown out of a Moscow about two years ago and it was the senior defense official. there was familiar with probably the Russia situation and wire are different. That's got thrown out. that's for that's a story for another day today. I wanna talk to you about our Navy and the Navy. In the nation needs during mission as as the Navy and as I said, it's enduring because it's really been here since the beginning of our history. Dustin you go to the next slide you'll see in this next slide is a fantastic ship on here The Great USS Constitution more than two centuries ago after winning the Revolutionary War the newly independent States dismantle the continental and you know we thought we didn't need it anymore. The went home and an interesting me-I. I'm talking about them while I sit here in this great country, but they went home and there were. I need to spend a lot of money in this expensive etcetera and then all of a sudden the hostile forces began to threaten to capture a merchant vessels throughout Europe, and it quickly became clear that a young nation needed what what the great all great powers have, and that is a front line, Ocean-going neighborhood and a fleet of ships to have an important mission is to guarantee our safety and defend us defend our interests around the world. so in 1794, Congress authorized the construction six Briggs, which one of them is US Constitution here with the acknowledgement the. On our merchant vessels, it necessary that a Navy force should be provided for protection. Those six Briggs, where the genesis of the Navy that we know today also say one thing about this great ship here. There is a place down in Florida that that is used to be a Navy specific reservation that grows out and wood in the shape of the ship the way they need it before they even put it in the ship. It's just a fascinating thing today as I should mention if you have any have any questions. Please please chime in at any time and I'll I'll try to keep it on pace because we only have a certain amount of time with the next one Dustin place so while everything else has changed in the past century, ships, aircraft and people and even the world you're maybe your name is enduring mission has remained the same to deliver combat ready forces to win conflicts and more while maintaining the security and it deters posture throughout as a as a as a matter of forward presence. So what does that mean it means? That the Navy will remain ready at all times to conduct combat operations at Sea and we will protect the American homeland from attack and we'll always fight to advance American interests around the world. We promote American prosperity and advance American interests and we preserve peace through strength and we protect the homeland. you and us and me and my family the American people and American way of life. so next slide please so what does that mean well, preserving our strategic interest overseas important to our Navy's mission. You see a couple of figures on the side here this. Why it all matters to you as a global economy continues to expand and become more connected and more more more interconnected today than ever as we see with this situation as a non connectedness, we realize how much more connected. we're all actually are and it's becoming an increasingly use more by the United States as as as a whole that is trade on the on the high seas etcetera. 26 percent of our jobs are tied to global trade now and 26 percent of US manufacturing jobs depend on exports and then 20 percent of our AG. Products are sold overseas and it's something that most Americans don't think about it, but more than 95 percent of the international phone and Internet traffic is transmitted via cables. undersea communication cables across the oceans and your Navy played a big role in protecting those and sustain them. next next slide please so I like this slide because it's just really is telling all those lines you see on. there are really shipping routes. It's over time and you can see how interconnected we are the contributions of America's Navy just don't benefit Americans as well. 70. The the Earth is covered by water and and more than 90 percent of our global Commerce is conducted by state. So we need to be present. the US has always been the President to stabilize. and of course, we still need to maintain that posture. this day and age security maritime trades is vital is vital to the global economy is has ever been and not just for the US but for our allies and partners and in in the whole world so increasingly globalized world, our success is even more reliant on your next. Please so America's Navy is ready to defend America. you see this great gun put around downrange. It's always a lot of fun, our partners and our strategic interests as well. they depend on on your day and the United States, as well. We're uniquely positioned to do to do this mission set because the world's oceans provides with access to protect America's interest where around the world using naval power from the Sea. That's 70 percent works in our in our favor that 70 - seven serves covered with water certainly. In our favor, the foundation of our course is our ships and I also have our people I'll get to that in a little bit, but for those original six gets the Navy now possessed as a wide variety of surfaces from on nearly a hundred thousand aircraft carriers and even more with the the planes on board and the people to agile the total combat ships to coastal patrol vessels the presence of these vessels anywhere in the world helps to interpret potential conflicts and avoid escalating tensions. This is. That the general public makes a mistake about a military. We're not here to we're here to fight, but we're also here to prevent war and we do have a pretty good job of that by adding that element of deterrence out there and that's we have to remain credible and strong because of that. we have ships like our early Bird class destroyers that possesses staggering range of offensive capabilities. I mean it's staggering given our military's leadership and in our in our leadership, our National leadership a lot of. When they need it and one of those of course is the military option, which we don't like to use. but if we need to we're pretty pretty effective at it, I have to say so myself. Okay Next slide please. So this is a great because it shows is fantastic submarine warfare has long been a specialty of the of America's Navy. even from the the Revolutionary War, and that tradition continues today or some forces involved from diesel electric boat that impact boats that they have the crank by hand under the water to get them to move all the way down to our nuclear powered submarine that can stay under for an infinite amount of time the only limitation of course people and the supplies that they need a board to eat. Of course, that's important in the end yet the most valuable assets of the submarines like this Virginia class somewhere in the picture. here is itself it's ability to strike without warning that uncertainty that it adds to the enemy. It's really it's a deterrent deterrent factor in of itself the next slide please so it's long been held at the first question in America leader asks. and this is really the problem is where my aircraft carrier. So if things go bad around the world, they wanna know where they have fires at that question confirms the importance of naval aviation and in America. Maybe the most prominent component of that is the FA 18 Super. It's a Multi-Mission Jett kitt carrying out ground attack missions and combat, as well as many refueling and even electronic warfare. the Superman is just one example of the planes, helicopters and even unmanned aircraft from the the form the backbone of our ability to project power from the Sea, all of which allows us to do a great number of things that say without the need of another country's permission to operate whether it's for we say an aircraft carrier is a is a is an acre and a half of American Real Estate. put it anywhere. We want any time and. Aircraft with to great effect any questions at this point from anyone pause for a second so you had mentioned deterrence could you explain what that means to the American public? Yeah. So the turns it's a great. It's always a point of debate like what is real terms. What does it mean? What does it mean give them whatever a battle space? I'll just tackle that from the maritime perspective. so deterrence is it's the ability to prevent a country from taking action against the United States or against our interests and. What does that mean? well? it means that they do a calculation and they say, hey, you know, I'm gonna take this activity against the US and they sit back and do the math and they say if I do X, it will cause them to do why and if they do that does that cost me more than I'm willing to for and that's really what we do. We change the calculus. so I guess that's kind of an easy balance sheet kinda way of looking at it. It's not too simplified. That's that that's really that's really the way it works. It's the way we we figure it is that answer your question. Yes, sir. Yeah. Thank you. That's a great question and I appreciate that thanks a lot so we wanna compete deter and win. It's the time-space was right on. Thank you for the question that maybe is America's farm forward deployed forces. We're out there all the time 24 seven while we sleep I-land of our Navy is out at Sea. We're constantly improving and enhancing quality because we're investing time and resources and increasing our capabilities and your Navy continues to be the most effective maneuver force in the world. so it gets back. What does that mean? well? it means that our competitors, China and Russia attempt to remake the rules and disrupt free trade and therefore our right to sell the world Oceans and the Navy stands ready to compete with those forces by both to turn their activity to show them from trying to challenge us and when it becomes necessary to win whenever whenever that arises so your neighbor protects the American homeland that protects our economic prosperity, but keeping the world's oceans open for transit and open for business and we. With other American forces to meet those challenges or join our join us today, I think it's really a complete complete and I really do respect the other services for what they bring to the table next next slide please. so here's the real part of it. The kicker is the people I'm big believer in that big ships are really very important that people are really the heartbeat of the close to them and building the nation needs a Navy has identified our our our top priorities are to continue to strengthen our people and capabilities and our process right everyone wants to improve those things but critical in our. It won't matter where your life is hanging on the line by focusing on speed results and partnerships. We're making sure that our forces are strong enough to provide the American people with modern sleep. They need to stay on top, but today there are more than 290 290 ships in the battle force and many of which are based overseas. we call them forward deployed ships and locations such as the Middle East, Europe and Japan and one of the Navy's more than 400 of the Navy more than 440000 active and More than 70000 A- four deployed to support our operations around the world next slide please. So America's Navy reaches into every corner of the world, you can see here in the live. We're busy' like to be busy. We like to make great use of your tax dollars. We do it every day we have six major commands responsible for naval operations ranging from our own sources to Europe and the Middle East to Central and South America, Africa and from one side of the Pacific Ocean to the other airflow on one side of the Pacific Coast to the You know it is it is gigantic. It's just a massive expansive area as you can see this comms carry a wide variety of missions every day, and here are few examples of what your Navy's doing right now. Operations in the Central American region support the presence of our aircraft carriers in the Middle in the in the Middle East and in operations and exercises with allies and partners really throughout the world the Pacific Ocean and throughout the world here in Europe as well. Next slide please so the Navy provides support to operations against the Islamic State. this is the non state actors those other threats to the US of A little bit harder to get at and the six point seven areas of responsibilities, six in and Europe and seventh being in the Pacific reinforced international rules and enhance force protection for our our forces that are stationed on the ground as well, our current operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria include airstrikes from ships in the Middle East in the Mediterranean Sea. As I said, we can reach out far and wide with these with these air. Cares and strike capability and we do on a daily basis Thanks a lot so maritime security operations are major part of what we do around the world, including counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East and Africa and elicit trafficking operations in Central and South America. Those are relatively smaller scale to the big boom operations we do in the power of protections, but nonetheless an equally if not more important, currently as Navy vessels are participating in international maritime security cooperation and straight up moves. I'm sure you saw the other day the Iranians managed to shoot Their own ships, which is unfortunate we feel badly for the sellers on board, but that's it was a clear provocation in the state of Hos and we're there all the time making sure that our our security interest on that next slide please and this is a really cool slide here because you all know what it's about. We have this issue going on right now. no doubt it's one of the Department's mission is to defend support to civil authorities and you've seen a lot of that late. We've been supporting the Fema and and state local and public health authorities in and helping to protect the health and safety of our citizens of our American people. and we're very proud of that. A US Navy is uniquely suited to respond quickly with the ability to rapidly move medical supplies when and where we need them and to augment city hospitals medical staff as you saw with the comfort and the mercy, which we're very proud of and then require bold action and flexibility, we know and all know that now something we didn't think about before but We think about now we have to work with our inner agency partners to leverage our mutual strengths to spread this virus that that that to to prevent the stem the spread of this virus and yet we must be mindful of our operational readiness of our requirements. The stuff I mentioned earlier as well, so you're basically gonna be ready for everything all the time and you have to keep that energy level up my next slide. please. so here's a couple of things that happened that you saw on here. We've got a picture. I think the next slide up is a picture of our our our ships import USS Mercy. And pointed in Los Angeles in the went to New York and we had more than 3000 sailors from Navy Medicine Medicine supporting the female as I mentioned before and for the health and Human Services. We're very proud of that. these expedition and medical facilities were deployed in support of the US, but we deploy them around the world to great effect Next one please so here's a final like humanitarian style. I like this one cuz it's our sellers really get out and connect with people and this is all about making it. With people, it's not just what we do for people, but it's how we do it and it's who we are and it's our ability to carry out the response to humanitarian assistance is really second to none. We've done it around the world. Our Comfort has been around. They've been an 11 week medical deployment to South and Central America for a Southern Command last year for enduring promise for enduring promise initiative. So when you go there and you do these things and you do these great things. they see Americans doing great things and then when we. They say Americas the great thing. That's what it's all about. It's not just about what we do. It's how we do it where we do it. We can do it really on demand around the world next slide. please so this is a great picture of our allies and partners of selling with us in the Pacific. it's really about great power competition, China and Russia in particular. we have this rim of the Pacific exercise. We called rent-a sitting here. It's a large spare time exercise in the world. in 2018, we have a Navy training with force. 25 Other Nations, including 47 ships and 200 aircraft and more than 20 - 5000 people all around the world working together to strengthen worldwide diplomatic cooperation to Shedd military interaction. This is a real home run this exercise. It will be a little altered this year and that there won't be any going to shore, which is a disappointment to a lot of sellers. but Rent-a is still planning and it's gonna be a great event as it every year we look forward to any questions At this point. Okay next up So our challenge is we have our signature challenges. you saw them on TV We deal with as well we deal with ships breaking down we deal with family issues. We're human as well. needless to say this challenge is significant issues for our sellers and our leaders go forward. I'll cover some of them here. Some of the challenges is concerned in the next slide you'll see is some of the things the next slide up there. Dustin place there. We go so some of the challenges we point out here in the slide. you've got challenges. Around the world is complex world that's more complex than it's ever been in history. The demand for American forces only rise in the South China Sea. we're Tess are under dispute and the Black Sea, where we continue to support our partners Our NATO partners, America's Navy is also engaged in operations in the Middle East in the Mediterranean, I've said earlier, the other concerns is the emergency of competitors of Russia and China has pointed out as well and Rogue State. This is Iran and North Korea and then those the. Non state actors that have mentioned earlier that we have to pay attention to so there's a lot to pay attention to there's a lot to focus on and we do it in the course of the National security strategy, but that's what your neighbor is doing out there. It's deploy and it's it's been put to good use next slide so the challenges we face there's high operational demand. again we're people but we're we're really. we're really got some fantastic young Americans out there do great work. you see this the sailor hanging from a hook and there's nothing like it comes from a hook in the ocean over. I can tell you I've done that before and wide variety of missions, increasing range of operations around the world from a large to small, unfortunately this high operational tempo places a strain on people that accelerates the wear and tear on ships and aircraft and people to oppose the stress on our sailors. back to our medical community folks who support us so well and that we need to really take care of our people and our and our gear to make sure that we're ready. it's an increasingly complex fast-paced security environment that we have to keep up. But we also have to make sure we take care of the health of the force, so it's ready to fight and win when we needed to to be so it's lethal and ready next slide. please so that maybe focus we're focusing on these challenges and what we do in the military is we do something about it and it's the doing part here those books and the Navy's efforts across three areas that I'll cover in the next slide here in the next slide. I'm sorry Dustin so Navy is focusing on war fighting. we need to be ready to win across. military operations we ready to meet these requirements for senior leaders anytime anytime at day operations are in transaction we have to face or we have to stay ever them ah in equipment and knowledge and people at cetera to grow ah we need to grow at academically operate or force at the flame level we need to be predictably affect Effectively maintain the fleet and we we know because it's cheaper to maintain things that it is to buy them and we really do respect our here and people in that regard Next up. we have to look at our our world class. We have to make sure we have maintained a Navy that the world class we have to educate and train and retain our most talented men and women out there and most are young people or people uniforms and civilians as well as sellers are asymmetric advantage. people really are. What make our nation or make our Navy the best in the world, in addition to those fantastic worships so next up, we have to be prepared to fight and to win. this is the part right here. I mean we cannot we cannot overlook this. we have to make sure that we keep an eye on what the end state is. We can't be blinded by the issue to you and the issue is your first day is coen, but we have to be alert to the issues that. Out there that we have to pay attention to the future. China has been making a lot of overtures as as the things it's been going on. There's a lot going on in the South China Sea and if we're not ready and prepared to meet that challenge and we'll let you down and your neighbor is not gonna do that. we have to operate and exercise together with the allies and partners to make sure that we maintain those connections and that connectivity so that we can fight and win with them in the future and in arin budgets and rapid technological advancement and we're faced with. Your competitors with similarly sized economies, We have to make sure that we are exceptionally disciplined in allocating our resources and be ready to deliver on the resources we were allocated next slide. please a question before we go to the next slide or someone to ask me. Why is the sailor who is on the hook? why were they doing that? And what exactly is is the point of that? so I will. A funny story I'll give you a first in an so in 1991, there was a young lieutenant. J J J, who was on another ship working with the crew and they called that this JG was on the ship. They called that JG ship away he was on a sister ship. They called him away his ship had to leave the area so they had to pick this JT up at that night and it was about 11 o 'clock at night. We rarely picks up. Look at night, It's gonna have to get special permission to do cuz this is pretty high risk thing and I tell you what when they hooked me on that thing at 11 o 'clock at night, it was dark out and they hoisted me up and I started spinning around. I saw a ship and dark we start to shift the darkness ship. All I can see is the lights and I'll never forget the reason they did that it was by operational necessity. Sometimes you have to voice people down on the ships back and forth because there's nowhere to land. so sometimes you have an operational requirement. That wasn't my case, Jura had to get back to his ship at 11 o 'clock at night, so that's why the horses up and down so it must have been an operational requirement for sometimes we waste them down cuz it's a medic so they can save somebody or maybe a commercial ship or another Navy ship. So I don't know the exact reason in that picture, but there's a couple of good examples. hope that help Well. Thank you sir. We're gonna take a brief pause and take all the rest of your questions. feel free to ask any question you want about your Navy and. Admiral will join us back in one second as we stand by for more of your questions. Alright, we got a few questions for you. Admiral. Are you ready to go? I'm ready to go? Alright so someone ask what's your favorite part about your current role? My favorite part about my current role I think so I'd like to work with people to talk to some of my folks about this today and I think that it's the engagement piece with the farmers and it's working with other Americans to that end and I think that's to me. That's a lot of fun because why is it fun? Well, you know you're here as who you are, You know. I'm here with David Monro. I'm here as the I'm here. We're at but really what I'm here at is is is you know the embassy representative of the United States. I really what I'm here is the. As an American and I think that's a lot of fun, I hope it doesn't sound Sappy, but it's but it's true. It's really a problem when you can represent your country because if you give something up or something goes well, they walk away and say, see what the Americans did. They don't talk about Dave Barro. They're talking about the raffle. They don't talk about that guy from the Emmy. They don't talk about the guy we talk about the American or what's the American. What the Americans do it. So it's a lot of fun. I think that's I think that's the best part of my job right now. Another question that came in is asking about the educational benefits of the Navy, such as the GI Bill. Yeah. So I have to say so I have I have children and they're you know some in toward towards the College now and I and I have this discussion about what the military can do for your life and I don't want to be a recruiter. I just try to tell them how it is and the opportunities that the military gives you not just from an educational standpoint but from a. Experience the just I think our second to none again. I'm not a recruiter. I get paid any extra somebody joins up at this month, but I can tell you that the great thing about the military is that you do have this educational benefits the GI Bill I'm eligible for the GI Bill and my son is now going to College with the job because I'm a lot of transfer. That's a really nice benefit. if I didn't have to transfer, I went through via the ROTC program, Reserve officer training and they paid. My College so I remember the day I was home and I opened up the envelope from I went to the University of Pennsylvania, but I remember opening the envelope from the Navy and it was I just feel a- one form out and I send it back and this is what I get to kind of easy up a little more a little more and so I I got this notice that you've been awarded a four year scholarship to any school that you have ROTC And I remember telling my mother this and she was home. my father cut me for me to Butcher and so she. Help me to shop and she was home this particular day and I'll never forget she was she was making a sandwich and I heard the I heard the spatula or a knife on the counter. When I told her this and I was looking at her. I was looking at the I'm looking at my my letter from the Navy. You got this for four years scholarship and I and I turned to her and I said what do you do What happened and and and she she was she had tears in her eyes and I said, well, mom what's the big deal? I said. I won't do it. If want you you guys. I can't believe it she. You need to call your father and tell him that you got a four -year scholarship. I will never forget that now is that as a as a parent, I'm praying that my kids will will come across with that. But I say this is it's not just it's just not the the journey but really the adventure. I think that you get from the military and even if you don't stay in, you can walk out with the GI Bill and you can get this great experiences and this great education. so I'm I'm I'm pretty hard cuz it really got me to where I am. I really appreciate that so you've spoken earlier about imac and how had the pandemic had kind of change the ability of the sailors to go to shore yet the exercise was still going to continue someone had asked how exactly has that changed the mission of the US Navy. Yeah well, that is you mean relative to back so or I guess I'm trying to get a context of questions so bring back then they just won't go Toure and. And maybe I'll answer it in two ways. So back, I really want to impact the exercise except there'll be some sales are really sad. They can't go to Hawaii and what does that mean what we do is we bring them in to Hawaii and we have meetings and we bring em you know we have we have a happy hour with them to go to the clubs and it sounds like you guys are just browse and have fun what we are. but what that does is it really builds rapport with our our foreign counterparts so that piece of it will go away from something like pack. if your question is. How is it affected us or the or this pandemic relative to how we operate around the world? It really hasn't changed anything. our mission set is still there the the I talked about the Chinese and the Russian threat and these other threats that are out there, United States and from non-state actors. I wish those things I wish Kogan would have done this, but unfortunately it hasn't, but it really has done. Interestingly enough is it is actually amplify some of the activity of some of. Stations because now you have this thing that's going on and remember the wizard of Oz. They know that on the screen I think well now if they've got something I can bring the shit up and I can hide behind it. you're not paying attention to me building concrete islands in the Pacific anymore. You're not paying attention to me something in the Ukrainians as hard as I used to before you're not paying attention to me with my missile shot that I took in the streets of Homs the other day, but unfortunately. You see how this kind of repeats over and over so that's that's the way the world has changed, but the Navy's mission. we're still there delivering we have to be. We just really have no choice. Alright. we'll continue the presentations Sir Okay. So I think we're on until almost the last two slides on here and what are we doing about the future? the future matters right? I mean everybody thinks about your future but in the Navy the future it's expensive cuz chips are expensive and this great machines. We build are expensive. They're not inexpensive but. They bring us a tremendous amount of credibility around the world the last few years. It's been a lot of discussion about what we look like in the decades to come in to Central themes that emerged first the Navy in the Congress of determined that will lead 355 ships and to maintain our superiority. I'm a high season with the focus on both men and unmanned platforms Aman platforms that is really the thing in the future. It's exciting. I won't get too far into it, but if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them. second more doesn't. I mean better if we build new ships, we have to change the way we operate the fleet and that dynamic mindset is built in to our Navy. It's built in to who we are. It's in our roots and it and it continues. It's the self esteem moment the state to electric to nuclear. So the fact is these bills aren't just a distant future, the current security environment, as I mentioned earlier guarantees that the world won't stop and it won't wait for us improve. So hey, maybe take your time get better. Work that way, so we're working right now on bringing a new assets to the platforms like this, you see here US Columbia tremendous capability of Ford class aircraft carrier, which is out there now, which is all electric and it's got the electric launch system for a catapult instead of steam, and it just brings different a different angle to the fight and new other vessels new classes and other Uss that will keep our Navy on the leading edge and we'll continue to innovate to go along and I should. And that it's not just about the kind of sexy new ship out there. It's about sailors and the sales that brings to the fight too. So we gotta push a little bit off to the side cuz the ship is exciting to see, but it doesn't come along with that sellers, a robust and flexible survival US nuclear arsenal under pins the ability to US Navy to to deploy conventional forces worldwide. It provides a commander-in-chief credible response options to strengthen our deterrence and supports the US Noli. By extending the turre to allies and near-by dissuading them from developing their own nuclear weapons. Now, I will end that part here. That's not a small thing don't cross over that. We don't want more people to have nuclear weapons. We don't want more Nations to have less so that the variability worldwide goes down. That's an important point so next slide please so this is really the end of the presentation on here or our mission goes on. Hopefully this presentation is giving me some idea of what your name Americas. Navy does on a daily basis and what's been going on for more than two centuries for generations of sellers. never changing your name is all about affecting our country's interests and protecting America. It's always been that way and always will be it's a mission of America's Navy and it's our our mission continues and I'm proud to be part of it and I'm proud to be able to come here today and to present that to you because it's it's obviously it's been a great long part of my life. I a majority of my life and I'm really proud of. Water' of our Nation and thank you for having me here today and I'll leave it back to Dustin for any questions. Well, Thank you very much sir. That was very informative and we appreciate you taking the time out of your day to be able to do this for us. so you would talk about a little bit and I just like to follow up you talk about the future of Navy warfare with unmanned unmanned craft unmanned war fighting capabilities. Can you expand on that a bit? Yeah great question because that's exciting because so a lot of limitations. We face in our system that we're fighting is is in people because people have to sleep and they have to eat and they have to be people and what these unmanned systems bring to the fight is our ability to be persistent and to be on stage longer and to go to distant places and in a more healthy way because you can make it smaller without people on board, you can do a lot of different things. so what it really does is. it's not like it's just it's a it's a sale sustained moment. It really just brings new. To the battle space, so that we have an advantage on our on our potential enemies and those who will be our enemies and what it does is, it doesn't take people out of the equation it just amplifies what we do in the battle space to improve our ability to defeat our enemies and I say it doesn't take people out of the radio and say well, it's a man that apparently it's really doesn't mean that there are people that have these things or people who have to decide how to fight these things. They're people who have to direct these things the Department of Defense. Years ago, it was really a the United States is really on this concept that if we have to take a target out with an unmanned system, there has to be a human being in the loop to make the decision to take the target out that is human beings to kill other human beings, and that doesn't sound like a lot except when you start having these youngman systems that get smarter, artificial intelligence and smarter for you don't want those systems making this human decisions. and so I really applaud with the Department of Defense that got ahead of this. We got ahead of this as a nation and. We've laid down those markers out there, so it changes the dynamic in ways that we haven't even really comprehend yet. I think that's an important thing to understand it will shape us and we will shape the battle space, but we must maintain control of that at all times to understand it and to stay ahead of that hope that helps absolutely sir you're currently serving in London under a capacity of the global mission, the just kind of 10000 feet looking over that. what exactly does that mean, and how is the Navy engaging in that global impact with our partners and and what you're doing specifically around the world. Yeah. So that's a great question. so let me let me back up about about 30 years ago 29 years ago. there's that Lieutenant JG got off that ship. that same guy had a couple of British partners at the time. We're selling Chriss they came over to our ship. Helicopter and they landed the reason they came over is because we I think I was 22 or 23 just wasn't just me. It was a group of us 2223 year olds, which is what we did is. We invited them over to come up with these tactics in order to attack patrol boats if needed only if needed because it wasn't officially sanctioned yet and we came up with this tactic and what ended up is the capabilities that we brought to the fight while massive and powerful did not exactly address that threat. It's good thing. We did that because we're successful Take six of those patrol boats out subsequent to that and go. That is what's called a tactical situation. In other words, it is weapons on target right at the source of the battle. The strategic mission is much broader. of course, as you get more stress, you have the way up to the President and the National Defense hierarchy and the decisions they make on moving a nation towards work so effectively what I'm doing here is I'm understanding that strategic part now and the reason I started with that tactical part is to contrast, so here's the same guy a little bit older but probably better looking at now. years later, I'm doing the strategic phase to your point. This is strategic piece now. it's really what we work with our closest partner and our closest ally, which is the United Kingdom. we have been working with them with Polaris submarines, the beginning of the program. so Polaris is the ability to it's the missile and it's the first nuclear vessel that came out of submarine and it creates a lot of uncertainty in our enemies or potential enemies. get back to that churn issue. The notion of deterrence if they don't know when it's coming out of them and they know how bad it can come at them. Then it kind of changes the math so here in the in the United Kingdom and runs all the way from that nuclear piece all the way through our special operations forces to the Army, Peace or Army in our integration on on flyers on fire, and it comes all the way to the Air Force piece to the F 35 piece now that integration piece of the F 30 - five our ships. we just did a an exercise. I say we the six week amt. I just went up North to the first time in 30 years. We're in the operating and who was by our side Where are UK Royal Navy counterparts in their shifts. so when you fly those flags together and then when you bring NATO into it and we just have to exercise last week with the US Air Force the US Air Force and the exercise was probably 25 or 30 different fighter aircraft and a wax aircraft, and that requires a lot of coordination that's gradual level exercise. Important that we do these things with our partners and friends, so there's some strategic level stuff that we do the stuff that we work on my job is to make sure that we stay joined at the hip with our our our ally here so that we can understand better what they need. They can understand better what we need to be communicate with outstanding well, let me do this here and. These are great questions too by the way. Thank you for absolutely sir. it has been a pleasure having you on. Thank you so much for educating us a little bit about your role the larger role of the Navy and sharing your personal experiences really appreciate you taking the time to do this. I know you're very busy person and I know it's a little bit later there in London. so yeah, Thank you for sharing this with the people of New Jersey the people watching across the country and around the world and thank you for your service. Thank you for your continued support for the outreach mission and thank you for your time. Okay. Thank you at Dustin and I'll say thanks to everybody in New Jersey. I still talk and walk what I do occasionally but my family's still there and it's still in my heart and thank you for having me today. I do appreciate it. Absolutely sir. so thank you all the viewers for joining us today. A little later on today, we're gonna have an interview with members from the Navy Band Northeast, so it's gonna be a little bit of a bilingual interview. We're gonna have a spanish-speaking musician who's gonna come on and that's gonna be very interesting. so please tune in at 150. Eastern time and we will have another ship to shore again. Thank you Admiral for joining us and we will everyone soon. Thanks take care.