 For the past 13 weeks, the Class Team has been responsible for morally, mentally, and physically quick development of today's graduates to serve as professional made block serves, worthy of special trust. The Class 07-24 Class Team also includes Class Officer Lieutenant Sansing, Class Recruit Division Commanders, Chief Petty Officer Davis, and Senior Chief Petty Officer Linda, and Class General Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Herrera. Guests on purge take photographs from the seating area at any time during the ceremony, except during the climb of the National Anthem. The order of events for today's ceremony are as follows. At 10-hundred, Captain Everett Alcord, United States Navy, Commanding Officer, Officer Care to Commanding Corps, and Vice Colonel John Buston, Chief of Navy Reserve, will arrive. The guests and class will rise to the arrival of the official party and remain standing for the climb of the National Anthem and the Education. The Commanding Officer and Guests of Honor will then address the graduating class and administer the oath of office. The graduates will then be recognized through the presentation of their commission by the Guests of Honor. The guests will rise for the climb of the service halls and the final dismissal. Please rise for the arrival of the official party and remain standing for the National Anthem and the Education. So they stand proud this day and physically develop for the service of our fleet. As they prepare for their next evolution in their communities, remind them of what it means to be a leader and to serve for their purpose. Let them embody humility and self-wisdom. Remind them to value every sailor and civilian they cross paths with each day. But press upon them, the initiative, integrity, accountability, and toughness needed to do the right thing, especially when it's difficult. Embolden them to have ownership of what they are called to do, even when they are called into harm's way. So if these officers look into their hearts, prepare them for the challenges that a lot have, giving them the physical, mental, and spiritual readiness to meet each one with confidence. As we continue to celebrate this moment, we ask for your spirit to reside with us and all those who stand to watch this day. In your name, please be seated. Commanding Officer, Officer Training Command, B-4. What a gorgeous morning here. Ladies and gentlemen, Vice Admiral Mustin, Rear Admiral Garvin, Rear Admiral Mushkin, Captain Frazier, Captain Robinson, distinguished guests, veterans, service members, Officer Training Command staff, families and friends, and most importantly, the soon-to-be commissioned officers of the Canadian School of Class 07, TAC-24. Good morning. Good morning, sir. I'm excited to welcome 101 of our U.S. graduates into one of the most challenging, fulfilling careers, that of a naval officer. To the family and friends joining us, I applaud you for the great work you did preparing these impressive young leaders prior to their arrival here. Your love, support, and encouragement have produced the remarkable individuals seated before us. This enabled them to make sound choices, and we are grateful to these graduates for their choice to serve. We could not have gotten at this point without the care for guidance and support of family and friends on behalf of the Navy and the grateful nation. Please accept my most sincere thank you. To the graduates here today, I am proud of each and every one of you. You've all had many other options of volunteering to serve your country, yet you chose this path. I thank you for your patriotism and your willingness to serve. I assure you that a life of service holds many rewards, and will bring you fulfillment. You have completed rigorous military, academic, and physical training. You have overcome obstacles. Nothing was handed to you except opportunity. The opportunity to make something more of yourself, to learn, to grow, and to leave. You've seized that opportunity, and today you reap its rewards. I congratulate each of you for the significant and memorable achievement. It's now time to embrace a new opportunity, meeting what is truly the Navy's most precious resource, Sailors and the Fleet. And years ahead, your knowledge and leadership still is tested often. You'll be standing watch and working alongside fellow officers and sailors around the world and around the clock. Know that you're going to be doing significant and meaningful work for our country. The mission of the Navy is of tremendous importance to our nation and the world. America is counting on you to deter aggression, defend our national security interests, and preserve our way of life. Work hard. Feel warfare and professional skills of your designator and strive to be the best. Give your best effort because nothing else will suffice. The nation and the Navy expect the best from you. The highest standards of personal conduct and professional conduct, excellence in leadership, and in strict adherence to the Navy's core value, honor, courage, and commitment. I applaud your accomplishments and perseverance. You are about to embark on a great adventure, one of which I hope you find both professional success and personal fulfillment. It would be unlike any other job you've ever had, and regardless of how long you serve our nation, for most assuredly it will be a time of your life that you will look back with much pride and satisfaction. Congratulations to each of you. I wish you fair wins and follow your dreams. It is now my privilege this morning to introduce you to our guest of honor, Vice President Donald Mustin, Chief of Navy Reserve. Donald Mustin is a native of Alexandria, Virginia. He continues a long and distinguished family legacy of Naval service. He's a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, the Naval Coast Graduate School, the Air University's Command and Staff College, and the F-50 Old and Graduate School of Business at Batson College. CDV assignments include command of Exhibition and Strike Group 2, Navy Reserve Task Force 29, service aboard the USS Donald Cook, and the USS Consents. Phyllis, affiliated with the Navy Reserve in 2001, he served as Navy Reserve Carrier Strike Group 2, USS George Washington, during operation and during freedom. Other staff assignments include Navy Reserve Chief of Naval Operations for clients and strategy, Maritime Expeditions Security Squadron 14, Navy Reserve Carrier Strike Group 10, and Personal Mobilization Team 101. Additionally, he served as the inaugural core combat ship, the Reserve Enterprise Director. Other command orders include Navy Reserve Joint Staff South, Naval Maritime Expedition Security Squadron 6, and each board-button unit 22, including mobilization to Kuwait during operations and during freedom and Iraqi freedom. Other flight assignments include Deputy Commander of Naval Surface Forces, Deputy Commander of US Second Fleet, and US Fleet Forces Command. Adam Bussett became the 15th Chief of Navy Reserve in August of 2020 as Commander of Navy Reserve Force. He is approximately 59,000 Reserve Performance personnel who support the Navy, Marine Corps, and Joint Forces. His leadership is essential providing strategic depth and delivering operational capabilities to the Navy and Marine Corps team and the Joint Corps in the time of peace or war, and to the continued success of the world's greatest Navy. We're privileged to have you here with us today. Cheers, thoughts, ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming your best of honor today. Vice Admiral John Muskin. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I realize that the longer I'm around in this business, the more I'm reminded that I'm just getting a lot less of content here. But anyway, listen, good morning. It's wonderful to see such a phenomenal turnout and I'm thrilled to see my new friend, we're out of Pete Garvin here, the President of the War College, as well as our Deputy Chief of Chaplain for the Reserve Matters, Pete Vashensky. Thank you both for being here as well. I'm really going to pay my respects, frankly, to the Officer Training Command staff, to the veterans in the audience, to the family, to the friends, and of course, the stars of this show, the soon-to-be officers who have received the performance. As my first order of business, I want to recognize the class officers, frankly, the class chief betting officers, the academics, instructors, and the drill instructors. The reason we're doing that is to be very clear your collective guidance and mentorship is critical to the professional development of thousands of candidates who come through these doors each year. So thank you for your commitment to excellence. Now, I'm thrilled and honored to join you from what's indeed a very special day for our neighbor and, of course, a very memorable day for our soon-to-be naval officers. It's a pleasure to be here with remarked this important transition of the national lives of the outstanding individuals before us today. Those who are on the verge of joining an elite Navy warfighter team as commissioned officers. This is a momentous day for each of you. It's a proud day. And we're also making history today honoring the first officers commissioned as training administration of their reserve officers through Officer Academy School. So well done. You've all worked hard and you've overcome many obstacles. The fact that you're here today celebrating this moment is a remarkable achievement in itself. But make no mistake your real work begins today. Thirty-four years ago, when I stood in your shoes in Annapolis preparing to take the commissioning oath with my friend Emma Barber over there who was already a seasoned ensign at the time, the world was a very different place. The Navy that we joined in the spring of 1990 would soon be called upon to liberate Kuwait during operations during storm. And the 1991 collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union would further define a new era. One in which the United States was the world's only superpower. Facing a new security environment presenting regional and transnational right of global threats. In response, we as the Navy developed a new strategy called from the sea which emphasized the Toro Warfare and the Navy. And even with nearly 600 ships our Navy was busy was operational it was forward-deployed and it was relevant. Today, though, the world is indeed a different place. We now face two great competitors, not just the South China Sea, the Baltic, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the South China Sea and the Gulf of England. As you prepare to join this team as commissioned officers, I assure you that what you do and will do is important. Consequential and appreciated. Let's be very clear, ladies and gentlemen, based on historical norms today's security environment is increasingly competitive, faster-paced and even more complex than a short five years ago. And so, we are aggressively modernizing our Navy to address today's global environment. We're building new capabilities and shifting capacity in our fleet to meet the needs of long-term strategic competition. We can no longer wake up hoping that tomorrow looks like yesterday. We recognize the need to transform to make hard decisions, to prioritize what matters and to shed legacy processes, force structure and expectations. We're doing this with urgency to prepare for the future, which means simply that you are joining the Navy Wardroom at an incredibly exciting and consequential time. I've said many times before that our Navy has much to be proud of and we do. We are, after all, the world's premier Navy, the crown jewel and the aspirational example to every other Navy in the world. And yet we realize that we still have much to do. So as you embark on your careers as officers, the mission will depend upon you to quickly assimilate into your U.S. Army and immediately contribute to delivering integrated all-domain naval power. Focus on our core missions of sea control and power projection and to maintain a clear-eyed resolve to compete, deter and win decisively in combat, competition or crisis when called upon. You're joining an elite team. The camaraderie that we share amongst those in the sea services is born from the fact that we are bound together by our mutual respect and our awe for the sea. It's the very lifeblood of our plan and in that we draw our most sacred commitment, the defense of our nation. In a moment you're going to take a note of committing yourself to the protection and defense of our nation's constitution. You're not a person, not a king, not a political party. And at that moment, when you take that note and you will recognize the weight and the obligations of the commission are weight and annealing. But they're also immensely gratifying. As some of you are well aware, military service can be difficult at times. You're going to spend time away from your family and friends and you'll endure long days. You'll face difficult decisions often that hold life into balance. But you'll also experience countless days marked by a sense of supreme accomplishment, unparalleled as free to core and pure personal enjoyment. Most importantly, you will earn the professional satisfaction that results from knowing that your efforts make a difference in maintaining our way of life and protecting the American dream. There will be no shortage of challenges along the way. But your approach to these challenges and opportunities to overcome will be the difference between success and failure. And I don't need to remind anyone in this room that in our business failure is not an option. Regardless of which warfare community you join and today we have 11 communities represented you must never stop learning. Commit yourself to mastering your craft and that includes professional acumen and expertise stewardship, fellowship and leadership alike. There are going to be difficult days there always are in life both in and out of uniform. And on those days I would ask you to think of the 341 million people in the United States who depend on the military to protect their way of life. And remember that less than one half of 1% of this US population is currently serving in uniform. The simple fact that you're here ready to commission, ready to serve your country, sets you apart it indicates that you have what it takes to be a naval officer. You know that the nation and the Navy can count on you to rise to those challenges and lead our sailors to victory and combat to the nation national enemy. In closing, speaking from personal experience as the years pass and the members fade it's a doubtful that we're going to remember much of what I've said today and I don't take it personally. But if you remember anything let me footstomp these words from the hero of the Pacific during World War II. There are no extraordinary people, just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary people are forced to deal with. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where you come in. It's up to you to be bold enough to leverage these extraordinary circumstances to bring out the extraordinary talents and the sailors that you're going to lead and to find victory in the trials that we'll face together as a team. After you leave this ceremony and before you report to your first assignment as an officer take time to think about the type of leader that you're going to be. And as you progress day by day, tour by tour year by year, you will continue to grow. You're going to impact many lives and you'll experience what I've found to be the most rewarding and satisfying profession in this great world. So to each of you soon to be officers, congratulations. I wish you the very, very best. I look forward to serving you. Most importantly, I look forward to seeing you in the fleet and seeing you impact the fleet in the future. So finally, thank you. Thank you to our hosts and our guests the wonderful families who've traveled from all over this great planet to join us and mostly to our leader. We are all here to celebrate these superb officer candidates and I offer my sincere thanks for all that you do in the fleet what all of you do at home and each of you for your continued support of our great sailors. I think I've talked long enough and it's time to get busy. It's time for us to get to the important part of this ceremony. So God bless you all God bless our Navy and may God continue to bless the United States of America. Thank you. Here in the class, we'll now receive the oath of office. With all military personnel remaining in form please come to be listed of attention. Raise your right hand. I am in charge of the Navy. Have you been appointed an officer in the United States Navy? Have you been appointed an officer in the United States Navy? Do hereby accept such appointment. Do hereby accept such appointment. And do solemnly swear And do solemnly swear That I will support and defend That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States The Constitution of the United States Against all enemies foreign and domestic That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same That I take this obligation freely That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservations without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter, I am about to enter. So help me God, so help me God. Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen. Please be seated. The new distinguished graduates assembled will now be recognized for their achievements while undergoing a training while here at Officer Training for man-made sports. For their peers, who mostly start their class and personifies the highest standards of personal example, sound management practice, and moral responsibility. This award is being presented at the end of the year. The Lieutenant Thomas Gedeon Honor Award is presented to the officer who has achieved the highest overall average in academics, military training, and physical fitness. This award is being presented to the War Officer of the United States of America. War Officer One's buddy is a distinguished able graduate. The Rear Admiral Stephen B. Lucy Academic Award is presented to the officer who has achieved the highest academic average. The award is being presented to War Officer One McGullis. War Officer One McGullis is a distinguished able graduate. The Chocolate Party of the United States Marine Corps Physical Fitness Award is presented to the officer who achieved the highest overall grade in physical fitness. This award is being presented to Ensign King. Ensign King is a distinguished able graduate. You will now recognize the remaining graduates. Ensign Harbaugh. Ensign Moore. Ensign Moore is a distinguished able graduate. Ensign Kelly. Ensign Amita. Ensign Davis. Ensign Johnson. Ensign White. Ensign Doola. Ensign Young. Ensign Weaver. Ensign Lever is a distinguished able graduate. Ensign Barnard. Ensign Barry. Ensign Barry. Ensign Beckett. Ensign Burnard. War Officer One Goyle. Ensign Brown. Ensign B. Cannon. Ensign Barley. Ensign Cantill. Ensign Castell. Ensign Serrano Santiago. Ensign Serrano Santiago is a distinguished able graduate. Ensign Chilugue. Ensign Crocker. Ensign Conway. Ensign Balavalli. Ensign the Ambrose. Ensign the Atomic. Ensign Davis Junior. War Officer One Dillon. Ensign Doola. Ensign Drake. Ensign Elizondo. Ensign Amvestre. Ensign Emerald. Ensign Hestergaard. Ensign Garambo. Ensign Garambo is a distinguished able graduate. Ensign George. Ensign Garambo. Ensign Insolence. Ensign Lugumus. Ensign Guthrie. Ensign Panache. Ensign Hedger. Ensign Hedger is a distinguished able graduate. Ensign Hilaria. War Officer One Jacobs. Ensign Jewel. Ensign Kimmins. Ensign Perksey. Ensign Crew. Ensign Coolish. Ensign Quacken. Ensign Lepran. Ensign Leap. Ensign Lincoln. Ensign Little. Ensign Little is a distinguished able graduate. Ensign Florian. Ensign McCann. Ensign McCann. War Officer One McDonough. Ensign Leap. Ensign Neeps. Ensign Miranda. Ensign Moore. Ensign Mooney. Ensign Morse. Ensign Boyer. Ensign Boyer Junior. Ensign A. Ensign Vietta. War Officer One Coretto. Ensign Barcelona. Ensign Pasquale. Ensign Raynard. Ensign Ramos Oliveira. Ensign Raynard. Ensign Raynard is a distinguished able graduate. Ensign Ribbets. Ensign Richardson. Ensign Capone Bidina. Ensign Ronas. Ensign Savage. Ensign Schrodinger. Ensign Sheppard. Ensign Sims. Ensign Smith the Fourth. Ensign Smith the Fourth is a distinguished able graduate. Ensign Szilord. Ensign Spironi. Ensign Steiner. Ensign Thergaire. Ensign Tawson. Ensign Valentine. Ensign Van. Ensign Vanhoen. Ensign Villanueva. War Officer One White. Ensign Patrick. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in recognizing the United States Navy's newest officers. Please rise for the playing of the service songs and the final dismissal. It has taken their class photo and a memory. The only authorized visitor locations are Cahawk and in its PGA. On behalf of the commanding officer, thank you for attending today's ceremony.