 It's a complete honor to put on this blue flight suit every day and represent 500,000 sailors and marines out there day in and day out. Those are the guys out there that are protecting us and providing that blanket of freedom so we can sleep well at night. The mission of the Blue Angels is really twofold. We want to educate and we want to inspire. We've got a very small team, 130 sailors and marines. We can show first hand to the taxpayer, the American public, the pride professionalism of the average sailor and marine out there in the world. It's hopefully along the way we can inspire some young people to maybe follow in our footsteps 10 or 15 years from now. What we want to do is just get people excited about aviation. Most people in America don't get a chance to see what we do, whether it's overseas or in our day to day lives. So the chance to come out to an air show and see a representative of the Navy and the Marine Corps put on an air show and show what our capabilities are, it's got to be a real treat for everybody. It's a real treat for us to show them that as well. Well if you haven't had a chance to come out and watch the Blue Angels, I encourage people to do it. The first thing they're going to notice is they're going to see all these men and women running around these airplanes, getting them ready to fly. Believe it or not, I'm one of the few pilots on the planet that doesn't pre-flight my own jet. It's that level of trust in that teamwork that goes into every Blue Angel demonstration. Once the flying starts, the first thing they're going to see is Fat Albert, our C-130 Herculeus flying around. We're going to do about a 10 minute demonstration and show you the capabilities of the C-130 aircraft. And everybody loves reading the poetry, slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the sky. Fat Albert does it more gracefully than anything I've ever been in. From there you're going to see the jet takeoff, you see the formation flying that all Navy and Marine Corps pilots are taught to do. We call out the Blue Angel Diamond. Then you'll see Blue Angel 5 and 6 for our solo pilots and we're going to max perform the aircraft. We're going to show the audience what the F-18 is capable of doing. And the Blue Angel, we pretty much personify teamwork, you know, that's being demonstrated throughout the fleet. Everyone's on the same page for maintenance. We get these jets fixed so quickly and efficiently, it's just a great team effort. Being a part of this team is a real great honor, but I would say that you can take anybody from the fleet and the Navy and the Marine Corps and put them in this position. I mean, we're just a microcosm for what the fleet is. The best part of this job, everyone asks me, is it the flying? No, it has nothing to do with flying. It has everything to do with the folks that I get to work with on a daily basis. The caliber of people is really amazing. I got 540,000 of my brothers and sisters that serve in the Navy and the Marine Corps and they even trust me to travel the country and represent them, show the American public what they do on a daily basis. It's an honor. We are your United States Navy Blue Angels. We are your United States Navy Blue Angels.