 To me as the captain, being a gladiator means we're taking care of each other and showing our allies that we are here to support them. My name is Billy Goodyear. I'm an 11-10 service warfare officer and I'm the commanding officer of USS Gladiator. So we are doing our mine information warfare certification, so we're out here learning how to mine sweep, learning how to mine hunt. The last eight months we've been building up doing electronic warfare, surface warfare, mobility engineering. We're coming to this point where we're knowledgeable, we're crushing it, we're winning. So to see the crew excel at everything they do and this underway just feels like a win for us. The best part about being the CO is seeing all the kind of smaller teams that make up the big team that is gladiator all come together and learn, get better together, help each other out. Seeing their pride and their joy and their enthusiasm makes it easy to put in the hours and get up and stay up late.