 The best companies take time during the first week of each new year to review their code of ethics. As you consider your command's annual ethics review, I, like a quote from a 2019 ethics message, reaffirming our commitment to ethical conduct. A commitment to exemplary ethics must be a personal creed. We must aim beyond compliance with basic standards. As leaders, we must inspire each other by setting an example, rejecting any sense of personal entitlement, and never abusing our position. We must be willing to choose the harder virtue over the easier vice. Each of us takes a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution. The department's mission imparts a special responsibility on each of us to serve with the utmost integrity and be vigilant in protecting the duties and confidences with which we have been entrusted. Lead well this week.