 Welcome to the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy for this historic occasion as we unveil the Chief Mass Sergeant of the Air Force International Honorary Wall. I am Senior Mass Sergeant Justin Everett, a maintainer of my training, a former Senior Enfield Academy instructor here, and I am your emcee this afternoon. In 1973, 120 enlisted leaders graduated from the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy's inaugural class. Three of those graduates would go on to be the fourth, the sixth, and the eighth Chief Mass Sergeant of the Air Force. Since then, 76,979 students have graduated from this institution across all branches of the armed forces. In 1990, we welcomed our first international student, and 32 years later, we have seen a total of 396 international students from 41 countries. Today marks the first time senior enlisted members are inducted into the International Honorary Wall since its creation in 1985. We are honored to recognize the achievements of seven of our alumni and the value they bring to their militaries as senior enlisted leaders. Ladies and gentlemen, to help recognize these honorees, please welcome the 19th Chief Mass Sergeant of the Air Force and a graduate of the Senior Enfield Officer Academy class of 2009 Bravo, Chief Mass Sergeant of the Air Force, Joe Angus. Thank you so much, Justin, and I appreciate you sharing with the audience just a little bit about you. When y'all couldn't tell they, he's actually from Alabama, right? Maybe not. They're just a little bit of an accent. But good afternoon. Hello. Mahaba. Ahoy. No, I'm just playing. We're not going to do that again. But we did say that. I worked really hard at saying hello in several different languages this morning. And what was interesting is when I talked to some of my teammates on how to say hello in their native tongue, they said, just say hello. And everybody will understand. But anyway, thanks so much for being here. First off, I am so excited for every single one of you to be at our Air Force Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy. This is a big deal. It's especially a big deal to have seven alum coming here today. And so with that, I do want to recognize their commandant, our Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy Commandant, Chief Hogi Hogan. If you can just say hello to the Academy because nothing here happens without a team. We've learned a long time ago that the most successful leaders are ones that rely and lean on their teams and all the talents that they bring. So we're all the contrary for the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy here at Gunter Annex. Welcome. And we are so very excited for you to come. You just heard from Justin on some of the accomplishments and the number of students that have come through this schoolhouse. What I will tell you is that we are transitioning from an academic mindset to a mindset more focused on warfighting than we ever have before. To a mindset more focused on growing and developing our senior enlisted leaders and not just teaching them. We are focused on strategic guidance to enhance operational execution all the way down to the unit level. What I spoke earlier today and I talked about our most competitive advantage over any adversaries, the people. It is because we are creating people who can think strategically at the unit level. And so again, we're developing our airmen on how to think, not what to think. And that is what's happening here at the C90 Academy. And because our relationships matter so very much, the relationships that we have with each and every one of you. You heard General Hecker speak about it yesterday, but we will increase our capacity over 50% of the international partners that we bring into this schoolhouse. And that is important. Again, it speaks to the importance of what we do here. I will also say that this senior NCOA just completed its first ever Philippine Air Force virtual mobile education team. We were pretty excited to go spend some time talking to our Philippine teammates, even if it was virtual. We're doing Jordan next in June 22. We are also going to Saudi Arabia in November 22 and then also UAE in December 22. So there is a lot going on in our Air Force senior NCOA Academy. I would also like to say again, I'm so honored to be here with seven of my teammates who are all senior enlisted leaders within their respective Air Forces. I will say, I don't know how this quite happened, but we actually have an Army soldier as one of our teammates getting inducted today. And so my teammate from the Czech Republic, who is a command sergeant major, Vladimir Blasek, where are you at? You've got to raise your hand. So I've always known, I'm married to an Army soldier, by the way, and I'm a daughter of an Army soldier. I've always known that the Army wants to be Air Force. And so for one of our inductees to be an Army soldier, and I could tell just in the time that we've spent today that you'd love to transition into the blue. I think we may have some opportunities. But with that, we all know that again, as I mentioned earlier today, a strong enlisted corps equals a strong military. And a strong military equals strong partnerships. So thank you so much for being here today. It's especially heartwarming to see all of the family members, all of the friends who are cheering all of the inductees on. We are excited to unveil the wall that will forever mark the seven names of you guys represented here today. I would also like to just take an opportunity to thank all of those who have made this day so very special. We already spoke about the folks in the Senior Exio Academy, but there are a lot of leaders who supported to make this all happen. I would like to thank Everett Houghton from Protocol. Is Everett here? I would like to thank Major Merritt, Chief Select Justin Everett, and also Major Allhouse. Thank you all so much for making this day so very special to our guests. And with that, we look forward to inducting them and unveiling the wall. So right now, I would like to invite our 17 enlisted leaders, inductees, and the commentant on the Senior Exio Academy, Chief Hogan, to come up and join Chief Bass on stage for a great picture. So you can follow Chief Hogan right now. Okay, now I would like to invite Major General Hormick, Major General Killian, Major General Negrosh, and Brigadier General Cirque to join your senior enlisted leaders on stage for a great photo. So thank you Chief Bass, Chief Hogan, and inductees. At this time, we would like to invite those on stage to follow General Brown and Chief Bass to view the Chief Mount Sergeant of the Air Force International RO wall out in the atrium. As you depart, we ask the family of our seven enlisted inductees to join them on the way to the wall. As this place is small, we do ask that the other guests remain in the auditorium while they're viewing the wall. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the departure of our honorees.