 Hawkins, United States Navy, Chief of Naval, General J.K. Davis, U.S. Marine Corps, Assistant Count, the President of the United States. I'm so pleased that our Commander-in-Chief and President and his wife are consented to be here with us to help that be a very special occasion for your place. I share that with the parents out there and the stands. I want to say thank you. You sent us great raw material. Find your men when you can work with them. We did our best to develop them orally and mentally and physically to maintain the graduates and their fairings. Congratulations. You're going to be very proud that I know that you are. The big legs are ahead of you. You've got to clean out the air and clean the boards and light them. Three things I would offer. Number one, you're well prepared here. You're ready for what's ahead of you out there. And don't rest on your laurels. Just to get the ground running, get out there and stay ahead. You said that for a reason. Second, you're a society. And finally, always do what is right. Be men and remember what they're doing. Always do what is right. Be honest, be ethical. You're my final mission here. You're ready to go. Satisfaction. The Chief of Naval Operations, rather shocked the American people with testimony saying for the first time in this century that the Navy had been weakened to the point where it could no longer do its job. And a month after that, in an historic speech in Chicago on March 17th, Ronald Reagan had people that enough was enough, and that the time had come to reverse that course and to reestablish a Navy and Marine Corps worthy of our great history, worthy of our great traditions and the security of our country. We had stopped that. But we assume responsibility for the protection of our country and all that we stand for. We, our Navy and Marine Corps. Your careers will be no less significant to future generations of Americans than those of past naval heroes. You will hear during your career, you'll hear a voice running out through the smoke and fire with a British captain asking how you struck their products. The gunner's makes a sweat and blood dripping from his body. Turn and suck zones. And I'm on his first human form. Reply. I have not yet been gunned to fight. The gunner's makes it. There's always somebody. It's about time that those who place their faith in wishful thinking and good intentions to let them work. During the 1930s, I saw America disillusioned by the Third World War on the military power of our armed forces in the desperate months after Pearl Harbor. Fighting a delaying action, often against overwhelming odds, they bought the time needed to build our forces. Carl C. Midway, Guadalcanal, a name that had gone down in the annals of truly historic battle. I couldn't help but see those names up there on the stadium. Many good men came to the end of the Second World War, gave individuals throughout our history who have fought and died to keep this country free. The United States is a democratic nation of free people. We are a far more moral and decent land than any totalitarian state and we should be proud of it. During the last decade of the 1930s submarines, there had been theories that Soviet belligerence would wane as their relative strength to the United States increased. Those theories went by the wayside in the late 1970s. We've moved forward to ferret out waste and inefficiency. And by the way, that's why you hear those stories about outrageously expensive hammers or bolts or efforts to make the best use of our defense dollar. To make sure our military is ready, we've purchased spare parts, ammunition. At the end of the 1970s, we had ships that couldn't leave port for lack of a full crew. Today, that situation has been dramatically reversed. We've not only been meeting our recruitment goals, but we're bringing in many of our own resources. The Oregon, Alaska, for example, are transported by sea. The great democratic nations of the world are denied by shared values and reliance on the sea lanes. Our treaty commitments mean little without access to the Atlantic, Pacific, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, all the great bodies of water. Let me tell you this is great. Our Navy is meeting a heavy resistance and I wish you fair wins in the following seats. United States Naval Academy. I present these candidates. I am Superintendent. My virtual authority vested in me by the Congress of the United States do hereby confer upon each of you the baccalaureate degree designated on your diploma with all rights and privileges there on to pertaining. Congratulations, graduates. William A. Scott F. Harrison. Paul W. Lurkey. Winkler. HTs. From the 11th Company. Kevin J. Best. I've set your appointment and do you solemnly swear that you will support me? I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I have set your appointment and do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, born and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter. So help you God. Congratulations, Marines. Welcome to the Court... Having been appointed an Enzin from 22 May 1985, I accept such appointment and do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, born and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge discharge, the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you God.