 Stand by, to John Duck, Hatties everybody. Hello everyone, Rick Williams Navy Region here, and it's my distinct pleasure and honor to introduce to you our Chief of Navy Operations, our 30th Chief of Navy Operations, Admiral Jonathan Greenert. Admiral Greenert is a native of Butler, Pennsylvania, and he has held the most prominent command positions in our Navy. He was the commander of the USS Honolulu, where when he commanded USS Honolulu, he was awarded the James Bond Stockdale Leadership Award, where he was voted by his peers and our fleet to be the best commanding officer with the best leadership vision and the best leadership tenants in the fleet. Admiral Greenert has also commanded 7th Fleet, Fleet Forces Command, and now as our Chief of Naval Operations, he's also a leading member of the Joint Chiefs. We're very lucky to have Admiral Greenert as our CNO. We are in really good hands, our Navy's in very good hands, and if you remember, the last time Admiral Greenert was here, we talked about some things, and he has helped lead us through some of our local challenges. Particularly, we're very grateful CNO for your help and leadership in reducing the utility rates. If you remember last time CNO came here, we were about to get 58 cents a kilowatt hour utility rate charge. Remember that? CNO said no, we're not doing that. He went back to the leadership in Washington, and now we're down to a more manageable 41 cents per kilowatt hour. We know we got a little bit to do on that one, but the CNO has helped us take care of one of the biggest problems we had. CNO also told us, don't let sequestration get in the way, especially when it comes to making decisions like closing down swimming pools. You might remember that we were about to close five swimming pools. CNO said no, you're not closing five swimming pools, so we've reopened four of the five CNO. We got one more to do, a little bit of construction still to go, but we're getting there. CNO also took some questions about maintenance and housing, and modernizing some of our housing. And while we have not completely made the turn on that, CNO said, hey, we need to get more appliances, and we need to upgrade and modernize our housing more. So, CNO, we're making progress there, and because of this body, and because of the opportunity, and because of CNO's leadership, we have made a lot of improvements here. So let's give the CNO a great round of applause. Actually, you don't have to thank me. That's what I'm supposed to do, and just doing my job. You're doing all your job out here, too. That's the least we can do. Do they do re-enlistment? Yes, sir. All right, great. We have 17 sailors that are going to be re-enlisted by the CNO here before we get into the CNO's call. Our sailors re-enlisting across the ALR, OSCS Frank Hearn, BNCS Omar Navarro, HNC Rodolfo Guerrero, S1 Leonardo Ripet, CTM-1 Watson, LS-1 Bellaton, MA-1 Gallagher, MA-1 Tainer, EM-2 Manning, E22 Dang, GM-2 Morales, PR-2 Cardenas, QM-2 Staffie, BM-3 Hare, CS-3 Nicholson, ET-3 Roth, and YN-3 Oliver. Okay, ready to go? Yes, sir. I see some of you married up. I think I see some. That's a key to success. Trust me, I know that. Okay, we're going to do the oath of office here, everybody, so then we'll take our seats. For you about to re-enlist, are you ready to go? Yes, sir. Okay, ten hut. Attention to the oath. Raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, state your name, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, true faith and allegiance to the same. And I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the officers appointed over me in accordance with regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. Okay, congratulations. Welcome back. Folks, you can sit down if you choose to. We're going to, I just want to introduce these folks and ask, can we always help? I'm sorry, sir. Can the family members come up and be present for the photo op with the CNO, please? All right, so CMC of Hunt, where are you from? I'm from ATG Mid-Pak, sir. Now where are you from? Where are you from? We're going to Georgia. Great Georgia? All right, so you're a real dog fan? All right. Anybody? You're going to claim this guy? Yeah. Where'd you guys meet? In high school. In high school? Oh, that's so cute. Would you please accept my coin? Thank you very much. You brought his hat. Are we going to put a hat on him, too? No, sir. Oh, you're just wrong. Okay. Thank you very much. It's great to meet you. We're going to do a picture here. Excellent. Thank you very much. Okay, Chief Navarro? Yeah. Anybody here want to claim Chief Navarro? Yeah, she's at work. I heard that before. She's at work. Yeah, congratulations. Where are you from? Santa Barbara, California. Oh, there's a lot of rich people in Santa Barbara, California. You know any of them? Can we introduce me? Thank you very much. Nice to meet you. All right. Chief Guerrero. Oh, thanks for the coin. Anybody here? Anybody going to claim you? Oh, you got something? Chief Guerrero. Father Guerrero family is here. Thank you. I need a coin for them. Here you are, man. Would you take that, please? All right, buddy. So where are you from, Miss? All over. All over? Me, too. Military brat? Okay. What's your name? Nephthili. Nephthili. Nephthili? Nephthili. Right in here. We'll take a picture. Congratulations. Thank you. I'm not with this chief as well. Oh, okay. He didn't get a post shot. Oh, I cut you out. I'm sorry. You're slumming it with just me. Sorry about that. I should have thought of it. Okay. Obita? Or Obita? Obita. Obita. Yeah, I saw this guy out here running around. He'll claim you, huh? Okay. Hello, ma'am. How are you? You just accept my coin? Give one for the little guy here. Say thank you. All right. Now, where are you from? I'm from Miami, sir. Miami? You too? It's Angeles, California. It's Angeles? Do you guys get along? Miami and Los Angeles? Okay. Very good. Come on in. What's your children's name? That's Tiago, and this is my daughter, Eliana. Eliana. Very nice. All right. Want to come in here? Here we go. Thank you very much. You did a good job. Watson, how are you doing? Anybody want to claim Watson? She is at school, sir. She's at school? Yes, sir. Well, then who the heck is this? I didn't think I'd sign up for this. I'll give you a coin, all right? I'm sorry. Let me give you a shipmate here. Okay. All right. These are your friends? They're my junior sailors. Junior sailors? Nice to see you. Kalamazki and C-2-1-0. Okay. Very good. Kalamazki, where are you from? Austin, Texas. Very nice. All right. Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati, Ohio. Watson, where are you from? Name is Georgia, sir. All right. Very good. All right. Get on in here. We'll get a picture. You did a good job. Okay. What's your name? That's one, Baltimore. You got anybody here? My family's up there. Where are they? Wave. You're going to come down here and take a picture? That's what I call friends, huh? Hi. It's just you and me, buddy. Okay. Come on down. We'll take a picture of just us while we wait. You're welcome. Looks like you did okay. Why don't you describe your children's name? My oldest is Margaret, and then Matthew, and then the little ones are Maddox. All right. You did a good job. Hello, ma'am. How are you? How are you, buddy? Am I calling? All right. I'll try and sell this on eBay. I'll get a fortune. Maybe you better hold that one for you. Okay. Now, what did you two meet? Oh, Philippines. All right. Very nice. Hey, kids, come on in here. We'll get a picture. All right. Very good. Thanks for coming down. I think she's going to kill me later. Okay. Gullahar? Is that how you say that? Where are you from? Clemethore's organ, sir. All right. Very nice. Clemethore's organ. Somebody's coming down to claim you. Oh, a new baby. Hold this little girl. Six months. Six months. Daddy's a little lady. All right. I got that. I didn't give you a coin yet. There's a coin, ma'am, and you can put this one in the vault whenever she's ready for it. All right. So you both met there and Clemethore's? Boise. Boise. Okay. Very nice. Thanks for coming down. Hello. Tainter? Is that how you say it? Anybody here? You got any friends? Not in this island. Not here? Not on this island? I'll just give you a point. All right. Very good. Where are you from? Virginia Beach. All right. Very nice. Are you a Navy junior? Dad worked at the shipyard. He worked at the shipyard at Norfolk Naval Shipyard? All right. That's hard work. Good for him. Tell him I said, in fact, give him that coin, will you? Tell him I said, thanks a lot. He's still working there? Just retired. Just retired? Very nice. Manny, how are you doing, buddy? Got anybody here who likes him? I hope so. Any family here or whatever? Just you and I. Where are you from? Houston, Texas. Houston, too. Yes, sir. Very nice. Okay. Nice to meet you. Congratulations. How are you doing, buddy? What's your name? EC2 Deng, sir. Where are you from? Born in Vietnam. Came from Sacramento, California, sir. Very nice. It looks like your girlfriend or wife is coming up here. Your wife. Hi. Hello. What's your name? Destiny. Destiny? You got that? Okay. I'll just give you a coin. I'm still holding on. Are you married? Just recently, sir. Newly wed. Newly wed? Still under warranty, huh? Yes, sir. Well, it looks like you're married up, kiddo. Nice to meet you, Destiny. How are you doing, miss? Where are you from? El Paso, Texas. Okay. Anybody? You got friends or what? Wait, there's a couple coming over here. Looks like, hello. How are you? Nice to see you. Nice to see you. The CEO and the Master Chief. I'm from the Halsey. Nice to meet you. Oh, thank you. And so, where do we say you're from? El Paso, Texas. El Paso, Texas. So, there we go. Now we got some friends. You got a lot of friends here in the island? Yes, I do, sir. All right. That's better than the other guy. He could use some friends. All right. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming out. Hey, buddy. Where are you from? San Diego, California. All right. Very nice. You got friends or whatever? Take care of here? Working. Everybody's working. Somebody over there said they liked you. I'm not here. I'll come back to you. You stand over here. Hello, miss. Where are you from? Bartow, Florida. Okay. What part? Bartow. Bartow? What's that near? It's centrally located between Tampa and Orlando. Okay. So, you've been to Disney World a lot? Yes, several times. Okay. You got any friends here? A few. A few? Okay. Very good. I didn't give you a coin. Did I? No. I'm all falling apart here. Here we go. You good? All right. You created some friends here, I see, huh? All right. They just fall out. What command are you guys from? VP9. VP9? Golden Eagles. Golden Eagles, huh? PSD Pearl Harbor. PSD Pearl Harbor. All right. That's a big guy here. That's good. Friends will get you anywhere, right? Where are you from? Pensacola, Florida. Very good. You got any friends here or family? Just you and me, huh? All right. Pedestrian here or not? Okay. Here we go. Okay. All good? Nice to meet you. What's your name, buddy? Michael Nicholson. What's it? Michael Nicholson. Nicholson. You got friends here? You got a friend indeed, right? You're like from that toy story. You got a friend in me. It goes on. You got a friend in you. You got a friend in you. You got a friend in you. You got a friend in you. A friend in me. It goes on. You too? Paul's, he just got back from deployment yesterday, you know. So you're claiming all your... All family. All family. Okay. Well, I'm not going to keep giving you coins. I just gave him a picture. So you got friends on your own? A few. Enough, huh? All right. Good. I gave you a coin, didn't I? All right. Very good. Nice to meet you. Where are you from, buddy? Benville, Arkansas. Benville, Arkansas? Very nice. Are you married to him? All right. Where'd you meet him? Here. Here? How long ago? A year ago. A year ago? Didn't they tell you don't date sailors? They didn't warn you. Okay, did I give you a coin? No, I didn't. I'm sorry. Here you go. Let's take a picture. Now, where are you from, Miss? Annapolis, Maryland. Annapolis, Maryland, huh? What are you doing out here? Him. I'm him out here. You didn't stalk him, right, Angus? You find him online? What's that? Okay, very good. I think we're going to leave this alone. Are you okay with that? Hello, buddy. Where are you from? Binghamton, New York. Binghamton, New York. Binghamton, New York. You must be from the Halsey. There's only... There it is. All right. I wouldn't want to sign your checks. How do you say that name? Sinchon Matos. There's a space. Oh. They don't put the space in there. That's very good. Clementa? Clementa. That's easy to say. I need a couple more. All right. I'm not going to give you guys a coin. I gave you one, right? I'm getting all mixed up. All right. Everybody in here. Okay. Thank you. How about one more handful of re-enlistees? Re-enlistees. Left face. Fall out. Isn't that great? Family. That's what it's about. So I do see a lot of other family members here and there. And I want to thank you all for what you do to take care of your sailor because you're the wind underneath his or her wings to allow them to do the things that they do and serve our country. And I thank you very much for that on behalf of Darlene and I. For I see a lot of our civilian sailors out here and I thank you because you are part of our team. We can't be the greatest navy in the world. We don't have sea power unless you are there to support us. You're kind of the mortar between the bricks. We kind of come to bases. We go. We here and there. And you're here keeping us and supporting us. And I thank you all, our civilians, civilian personnel. So I'm here today because I'm on my way to, we're on our way to Australia and into New Zealand. And we wanted to stop here, which is the gateway to the western Pacific, the gateway to Asia Pacific. So I can listen and learn and then go back and lead as I need to to fix whatever maybe needs fixing out here in Hawaii and as we move on down there. We're going to Australia because I got it, we're going to Darwin and I want to take a look in Darwin at where at some point by the end of this decade we'll be sending amphibious ships on deployment to exercise in Southeast Asia with our Marines and with our Royal Australian Navy and Marines in that Southeast area. We're doing that today, but not at the levels that we'll have, which is a Mew, a Marine Expeditionary Unit, 2,500 by the end of this decade. So in order to put ships in and out of there, we got to check the port and see what that's like. And then we'll go to Canberra and visit our friends in New Zealand, Canberra Australia, excuse me, and then down in New Zealand to take care of that. So we, the rebalance to the Asia Pacific, which you maybe don't hear as much about because of all the other things in the Middle East that take the place in the media, that rebalance is taking place. Today, Fort Worth is down in Singapore and that's the second little combat ship on deployment down in that area. She's on a 16 month deployment is Fort Worth. She's been in there about three months now, a little plus that. When she's done, she comes home. The next ship that comes over stays until and then one after another and then we'll have four little combat ships in Singapore. We are going to put two more destroyers in Japan with the cooperation of the Japanese government. That'll take two more years, one each year. We're putting another submarine in Guam, that's this year, as we increase the force structure in the Western Pacific, all part of the rebalance. There's more to it than just force structure, than just ships. I don't want to bore you with all the rest of it, but my message to you is it's taking place. This is the gateway for all of that. We got to have things right here to do that. The ships that are going to the Western Pacific, they're not leaving here and going over there. In fact, Hawaii will grow by two ships by the end of this decade. As we move more destroyers in here, we relocate the cruisers during that time. So Hawaii will show more ships there. A little bit of discussion on deployment, if you will. Today, the Vincent is on deployment in the Arabian Gulf. She's on a nine and a half month deployment, nine and a half months. And this all started back when we had sequestration and we stopped work on our carriers, and we stopped work on some of our airplanes. And now as we've had stable budgets and we're getting that work done on the carriers, on the ships, on the airplanes, we are still shaking out the results of that. So my point is this, Vincent will be on a nine and a half month deployment. She'll be followed by Teddy Roosevelt, who will be on an eight and a half month deployment. The carriers after that should be on seven month deployments. The amphibious ready groups this year, the one out there right now, is on a seven month deployment. Our submarines are on five to six month deployments. Our maritime patrol aircraft are on six month deployments. Point is, we're going to seven month deployments. The system is in place. We can do this. There are things that we have to do. We have to do, that's me. And that's get the right money in the right place, get the right people in the right place, in order for the process that we call the fleet response training plan that you're under to be done. Now locally, the other side of this is our destroyers are in high demand, especially the ballistic missile defense capable, those that you have, that's going to take us till fiscal year 17 to get those destroyers down to a seven month deployment. They're going to be on about eight month deployment through fiscal year 16. It's a matter of that work I told you that didn't get done before. It's a matter of getting enough of them and getting them certified so we have enough out and around the world. So that's a little bit, if you will, on deployments. Recently, you've probably read that the military compensation and retirement modernization commission, whatever that actor, I couldn't even repeat the letters again, they've completed their work and they've briefed the Congress. I got a copy of the book and I've looked at it. They have made their recommendations and they're just recommendations right now. So we have those at the Department of Defense. The McPond and I will look them over with the chief and able personnel. They will be asking some of you to your comments as we put together where do we stand on this, on these recommendations. That will go into the DOD and the Secretary of Defense will provide his recommendation on these to the President who will send those to the Congress. Congress will then have the rest of the year to pick and choose which of these they think makes sense. So number one, they have a proposal to change retirement process to make it something which would be contributed by the sailors, by the military member with a government matching contribution. It involves at the 12-year point a bonus, if you will, or a continuation bonus, and then whenever you get to, say, 20 years, instead of a 50% retirement, it might be a 40% retirement. Point is it's restructured. So this is an option. It may be adopted. It's just starting the conversation. But there's something that I get asked a lot and I hope that you all understand. If you wear the uniform, if we choose to adopt this and you wear the uniform, you will have the option to keep the retirement that you joined the Navy or the military with. You'll be able to keep that retirement. Say, I don't want this other one. I'll keep the one I have. That's called grandfathering. That's the term, your grandfather. You go back to the one you had. So you'll hear a lot about this is grandfather, which means you have a choice if you wear the uniform. You will not be forced to take a different retirement system. So the other things that are in this package involve health care, alternate ways to do health care, instead of tri-care to have another kind of health care, ways to improve the medical readiness out there. There are some TAD issues that are offered there. There's a whole host of them. So go out there and get on the website and take a look at it and speak up on what you think may be important to you about that. I leave you with that. Remember, one last thing. We're just starting the debate on these things. They're not a done deal. It's not going to necessarily take place. So we'll see where that goes. So let me open the floor up and talk about anything you want to talk about. I guess there's some microphones here. You can come on down there and ask questions that you want to. While we're getting ready to do that and people are gathering, I'd like to say hi. We're streaming this out live to different sites around the world. I guess it's a good thing that we're doing this inside the block arena and not outside because everybody would see what a beautiful day it is out in Hawaii. And we have a whole host of people saying, I want to get out of here and go to Hawaii as the case may be. So that's a good thing that we're just in the building. So the floor is open for any questions that you all may have. Please. Daner, I was wondering about an article I had read yesterday. Defense Secretary nominee was quoted saying that our carrier fleet was going to be diminished. How viable is that with what's going on in the world today? Not very doubt viable. I'm not aware of that article. I need to read where you go, huh? But no, we need 11 carriers to do the job that we need to do when the Gerald Ford, which is being built right now, should be finished next year in 2016. We'll go from 10 to 11 carriers. We have 10 today. And then we'll go to that 11. And it is right now the plan to be 11 carriers as far out as I can see. Thanks, sir. You're welcome. Yes, sir. We'll go port and star over here, I guess. That's not a bunch of yank it off. Just go ahead and use it. There you go. Yeah, sir. Last Thursday I discovered we have a rapid innovation cell. Is there any plan to expand that? Or will put it to it? Because first I heard it was last Thursday. I think so. Yeah, your voice was cutting out. So just go ahead and do the question over. I got it. Lieutenant Smith, so last Thursday I learned that you actually have a rapid innovation cell, which is a pretty cool program. Is there any plan to expand that? And I'll ask the publicity to us. So more people here didn't even know about it. The rapid innovation cell? Yes, sir. Yes, about 20 years ago, I started what's called the CNO's Rapid Innovation Cell, to your point, the CREC. Junior officers about the same level. We're going to continue that program. And it involves those that want to be involved. Some are doing it virtually. You submit programs, we look them over. They are chosen. I set aside $5 million for a series of programs, right around five. It's been a plus or minus one. And then folks continue to work them through. I intend to continue to do that. I would like to increase it, but the Congress wants to limit the funding to right around that to do the projects. If the project is chosen and it's a good one, it can be pulled aside and we embed it in a Navy program and we increase the funding. So yes, I continue to do the CREC. Thank you, sir. CNO, sir, major G&L, we have another mic on this side to your right. Oh, OK, so I'm behind you. Go ahead. Oh, sir, CTM 1, Chris Berg from Niawa, Hawaii. Considering that the buzzard of the DOD and doing it shrunk in the last few years, does all the little combat ships seem to be very expensive in creating them and bringing them online? How do we justify the cost of such programs and how are they different from the Air Force's Joint Strike fighter program that was severely cut back in 2008 as part of that downsize? Do we have a little combat ship? Yes, and there's a little class. Let me address the little combat ship first. We, it's called, it's categorized as a small surface combat. Yeah, if you've ever seen the Perry frigates out here, the Cromlin was here in a whole, that's a small surface combat. And we have about 15 of them today, and it's getting smaller. We need about 45 to do the job that we need to do. So we have to build a small surface combat. We started building the little combat ship, frankly, about 10 years ago, and they've been on track. They cost today about half of what the first one cost, because we're buying them in bulk. So when people refer to the cost of that and they quote numbers, frequently they're going to the first three or four we built, which were quite expensive. They did have cost overrun. They were not, you know, we didn't manage that as well as we should have. But today we're building four year, and they're gonna come in and populate the fleet. We need that type of ship. It is modular, which means that you can change out the mission from mine warfare to ASW, to surface warfare. We've recently approved putting a longer range missile, another set of guns on it, a towed array for it to be much more capable, multi-mission, and we got those ideas from the fleet. So there is criticism of the program. It is rolling along. It is performing better. I leave you with one last thought. If somebody asks me and they say, what is the best program in the fleet? In fact, if they ask the Department of Defense, they'll say, oh, that's the Virginia class program. I mean, that's one of the best in the Department of Defense. When that program was on its third or fourth submarine, they said, we gotta get out of this thing now. It is cost overrun, it's not working, it's not good enough, and we're gonna go to a new idea. So criticism for a new program is not unusual. Cost overruns, unfortunately, are not unusual. We have to do a better job of that. That's part of my job to continue to do that. But in the end, kiddo, we need small surface combatants. And that's our answer. Thank you. Sir? Seaman Zimmerman, Joint Base Security. My question was, a couple months ago, the Navy tested out the prototype NWUs. What's the timeline on that, and would we be required to purchase the new type? Yeah, the lighter weight, including the t-shirt, is designed to be optional, so that if you were in Hawaii, Guam, you'd get my point, pop weather. You can go buy these type, and we'll make them available. The weather test is done. They're pulling that together. There'll be an avat-bin out. It's overdue, it should be out within the month, so that you can start buying these things by the summer, no later than the summer. Okay? Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, sir. I am S.H.2 Udofield from the USS John Paul Jones. He actually asked a question that I was gonna ask, and I guess I've been asked about a couple worlds. I recently received some new coveralls. I wanna know if that is what we're gonna be using for the next few years, or if there's something else that the Navy is gonna be putting out any time soon. That's a good question. We got anybody, any aviators here? You get one of the flight suit? Yeah, come on down here. Would you mind? You don't mind? Thanks for buying it. What's your name? Steve Newenzerk. All right, so you look like the Commodore, huh? That's what it says. Okay. So we, the big point of line, going around the fleet, we were in the Arabian Gulf and we were talking about the coveralls. First of all, the idea is to go to the coveralls. It's definitely here to stay within the lifelines. And we said, what is a good coverall because we think that's the way to go in the future. Flame resistant, effective, it's gotta be durable and it's gotta be comfortable. So the questions we got were, well, it's got this belt. So we said, how about if we went to what he's got, which is the Velcro belt. So you have your loops catching on stuff all the time. It's got pockets that even stick out there and other things. Well, how about if we had pockets down here, pocket up here. And we kind of created the darn thing in the middle of the, you know, the Arabian Gulf there on a destroyer and a cruiser. So we're moving in that direction to make it much more flexible. Thanks Commodore, here's my coin. That's all I got for you, buddy. All right. To go in that direction, does that make sense to you? And that's what we're gonna go. So where are we going? I wanna go to the cover all. If this thing really works out and we can get it right, then that can become eventually maybe our working uniform. Thank you, sir. All right. See ya. Yes, sir. Good afternoon, CNO. Chief Wanzer from Pearl Harbor PMT. My question is in regards to the 401K style retirement for the new guys. How does that affect where that money is supposed to be a 5% match from the Navy to the sailor? Well, how does that affect readiness for ships and money allocated for repairs and... Yeah, let's see. That would not come from our budget. That would come from like today to pay for your retirement. When you join the Navy, we have to set aside what's called an accrual fund, a meaning we just gotta assume you're gonna stay 20 years, in case you do, so that we have the money. And today, 100 people joined the Navy, 17 make it to retirement, 17, 18, about that number. So that would come out of a fund, a separate fund, which would probably be invested for accrual. Somebody would manage that fund. So it goes something like this. You join the Navy and after one year, you would automatically enrolled and then you put 1% of your pay in optional. You put 1% of your pay in, government matches it. Then after two years, you can go up to 5%, up to 5%, you have options out there, should follow. At some point, it's called, you have vested and that means you own that money. You have put enough in, that is now your retirement. You get out to about 12 years and they say, if you're gonna continue on, we're gonna give you a continuation bonus. Two and a half times your base pay and then you get my drift and it goes on from there. Thank you, Colin. Okay, Miss. Good afternoon, sir. Agent Bobak from the USS Halsey. My question for you, sir, is if changes will be made to where PRT scores at points towards advancement. Okay. If changes will be made to PRT scores to... If the PRT scores will add points to advancement. Okay. We're evaluating that. What would you like to see? Yes. So let me show I got it right. Then based on your PRT score, some number of points would go into your advancement quotient. Like excellent and outstanding would have different points. Different points. Yes. That's what you want. Yes. You'd prefer that. So we're putting this together to evaluate what changes we would make to the PFA and the PRT and that's being done right now. And I wanted to have you state that because it's being recorded and not by name, but by indication. So it's all taken in new account. Okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Good afternoon, sir. I is to Smith, stationed at Paycom Jiock. Sir, my question relates to antiterrorism and force protection. One of the biggest threats facing troops stationed domestically or in friendly territory is likely to come in the forms of a lone shooter like Fort Bliss or Washington Naval Yard or like the recent attacks in Paris that would be a small group of experienced fighters. Will we be seeing any antiterrorism force protection measures or changes coming in the near future, sir? Well, every day there's an agency, not only Department of Homeland Security and the nation's anti-terrorism agency that follows threat streams for what? Now you were really, when you started rattling off, you know, Fort Hood, Navy Yard, and then you went to your latest, those were really fairly different situations. It's very difficult to predict and find a threat stream from a worker who is angry internally because they don't show those kind of threat streams. But if it's organized, there are a lot of people that follow that. And then the system that we have in place right now would take place. But out on bases around the world, if there's a threat stream from a terrorist organization, we obviously do antiterrorism force protection efforts. That's just defense and deterrence. But then there's folks that you don't see that are out there looking for this thing as it goes on. So there's, I guess, a host of ways to do that. What we're working on and have been working on, and some of them are in place, are better deterrence at the gate, more effective processes to work with local law enforcement, if you will, and to encourage people like yourself to say, if you see a coworker and doesn't look right, or is making threatening things, you need to speak up so that you can understand that. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. Yes, sir. Good afternoon, sir. I'm C. N. G. Folkenson from my Distorted Squadron 3-1. My question for you and a following recommendation is a sexual assault and prevention reporting. Currently, sir, the op-rep system on a small boy allows very easily identifiable victims. It's hard to keep a secret on a small boy, as I'm sure you know, sir. My recommendation, as I've talked to other entities and Simeo stuff throughout the years, is a web-based reporting system, sir. Because if there is one single African American female on a destroyer and you send an op-rep, everybody knows who that is. And it can lead to identification, reprisal, embarrassment. And it's just gotten to the point where I think it's unnecessary, sir. That's my recommendation. Web-based. Well, thank you for that. We'll take that back. I got people here, not only because of recording this, people around the world can hear you, but also I have a guy here. So we're gonna take that back to our sexual assault prevention office. Thank you, chief. Yes, sir. Good afternoon, sir. And I want to submit from now. How are you doing today, sir? Sir, I've recently read an article stating that a chief naval personnel is trying to convince 150 CVs to move over to the Master of Arms rating due to their low advancement scores and their ability with weapons and combat patrols and what have you. My concern with that, sir, is the MA rating as of this morning at the E-6 level was at 104% manning along with the E-5 level. E-4 level was 106, E-7 was 103, E-8 was 101, and E-9 is 102. The issue I see with this, sir, is we have the Master of Arms both at Helicopter and Fix Queen Squadrons that are either selling candy and coffee or they're with base security. When they deploy onto a carrier, they go TAD to the carrier. So instead of adding CVs from their ratings in the Rs, will the Navy consider just getting rid of our aviation ratings for Master of Arms, which in my opinion, sir, serve no purpose, to actually going to the aircraft carrier where we're gonna be implementing them within the next few years as well? Okay. I got really suggested is taking a board. We got it. We'll take a look at it. I got your feedback and I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Good afternoon, sir. I'm FD1 Collier from Naval Subway Chain Center Pacific. My question was about rating mergers and splits, and I was wondering how you feel that rating mergers and splits affect the professional identity of sailors and professional development and can we expect any in the near future? I'm sorry, because of the vibration or if you will, the reflection, I'm gonna lift the list into your question again. I got the two speakers here. Try it again, please. Sir, my question was about rating mergers and rating splits and how they affect the personal and professional development of sailors and can we expect any in the near future? No, major mergers and splits laid out here for the future. We need to take a look at what we've done and let that calm down. So I am unaware of any in process and I read what the chief individual personnel, when he feels what he has said and that's pretty much what I'm taking that from. Okay. Good afternoon, sir. My name is A.T. Two Springs from McCast Conaway Bay. My question is regarding PRT and in the future could you see that the way we measure body fat to a more accurate method because taping is pretty inaccurate? Yeah, we get that off and on and we were talking about, I was mentioning there's a group looking at the PRT. What would you like to see done? Personally, a seven point body fat test or there's ways I know on pro, they do test military for free as far as getting into the bath and the water test with the taping is pretty inaccurate. Okay. So once again, we're evaluating this looking at it pretty broadly and we got what your input is and we'll take a look at it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Okay. Good afternoon, sir. My name is, oh, this is an Amber Palm from the USS Halsey and my question is, in your own opinion, what's your favorite place to eat on the island? My favorite place to do what? I'm sorry. Place to eat on the island. Oh, my favorite place to eat on the island? I used to be Sam Choi's but I haven't been here a long time. So I really don't have a favorite place on the island right now. Thanks, I can't hear enough. Wish I could. Good afternoon, sir. FC Three Monroe in the USS Chosen. We have sworn to support and defend the Constitution but a large majority of the military, not only the Navy, don't know what the Constitution even says or what it means. Is there any plans in the foreseeable future that can fix this? I think the key part, the plans in the future should be up to the individual citizen. I'm not sure. You asking me if there's a training program in place for the Constitution? Yes, sir. Are you implying that there should be? Yes, sir. Okay. What do you think, because if I go back and say, okay, I want a training module for the Constitution. The next time I come out here, you're going to be standing here saying, would you knock off the general military training modules? You all just told us that they're citizens. They need to understand the foundation of where they're coming from, what they stand for. That's what I think your message is, right? Well, sir, as we have just mentioned, I saw we have sworn to support and defend it, but yet, What is it? As a military, we do not know what the Constitution even says. Okay. Whenever you went to grade school, many of the schools were required, but here's the point. What do you think is the, in your view, what would be the best way to get the Constitution? It really isn't all that big a document, by the way, for what it's worth. It isn't all, people think it's thick like everything today, it really wasn't. What would you think would be the easiest way to get people to understand the Constitution? Sir, I believe this is starting from boot camp. Just a general knowledge of the Constitution. Okay. So how about if we're moving to issuing tablets at boot camp with applications pre-loaded for you to have what you need, right? Instead of having a bunch of books and all that. So you'd maybe put an application there and it'd be the Constitution or something like that. But that would be great, sir. That'd be a start. Yes, sir. Okay, thank you. Yes. Good afternoon, sir. I am Elliston Figaro from HSM 37 and I have a question. Does the Navy have any plans for implementing an enlisted drone pilot program? The enlisted drone pilot? I guess so. Yes, yes we do. We are working to growing that skill set, if you will. Most of what we're looking to do as we look at people who do maritime patrol, it tends to fall in their skill set. So P3, P8, that kind of thing, as well as helodets. So between Rotary Wing and Maritime Patrol. What do you think? Is there another skill set we ought to consider that matches up? I'm not the subject matter expert, sir, but... I'm interested in something, though. Okay, thanks. Thought you might have an opinion. Thank you. Yes, sir. Good afternoon, sir. I'm E.J. Zinske, Pat Fleet Band. My question's regarding the final multiple scores, specifically the education points. Currently, as it stands, there's two points for an associate's degree and four for a bachelor's degree, but no recognition for a master's or a doctorate degree. I'm wondering if there is any consideration for extra points for those particular achievements. You know what? I didn't know that. I'll ask that question. I would have assumed that there would be, wouldn't you? We wouldn't have asked me otherwise. So I'm gonna go back and take a look at that. That's a good question. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Yes, ma'am? Good afternoon, sir. PS1, I can lay from USPICOM. My question is, is there any way that the hospital over at my train of thought... I know that feeling. Hospital here that we have to go to will be able, because I know they took cuts as well, will be able to take on more people because I had an experience a couple of months ago with my baby. You know, at being active duty, we have to go to the hospital over that the army has. And I went there, they sent me away, said they didn't have enough beds for me to come back later. And so later was 30 minutes later while I was on H1, going back home. And I had a lot of complications with my baby, so they sent us somewhere else. And now I'm having all these issues with tri-care paying the bill. Is there any way that they can alleviate and have maybe females be able to choose where they go? Yes. In fact, part of this, remember I was talking about changes recommended there, you know, in tri-care. What's supposed to happen is when the situation like you described happens, the hospital is supposed to go to the requisite, the defense health care agency and say, we don't have enough beds for the population, particularly maternity and pediatrics, for example, if you're a baby. And then they would increase the bed size and they would expand in the hospital. So anybody from medical here, and you know who you are, should take this comment and make sure that, you know, is this a one of or what the heck is this all about? There's just a trend. Because they can fix that locally and there's a process for it. When the population increases, you know, another ship shows up two or three, you gotta adapt your health care and there's ways to do that. And so if there are a lot of babies on the island, you gotta have enough beds and pediatrics. And so there's a way to do that. They'll take care. Why don't you raise your hand, it's gonna take care of this. There you go. Good afternoon, sir. I'm ET3 Oswald on the USS Buffalo. We've had recent, I guess, confirmed message traffic for females on submarines. I have friends, both on and off island, who are on the surface fleet and I've talked to them about it whether they would be interested or not. And a lot of them have been a resounding no. They don't wanna be in the cramped spaces, they don't wanna be subject to that life. I was wondering your opinion on it, whether as a qualified submarine or yourself, you felt it was... A good idea, I can ask this question. Let's go. You wanna know my opinion, or is there a sense elsewhere that this is not a good idea? Cramped spaces, gotta make changes to the submarines, all that stuff, right? Is that what you're getting at? Correct, sir. Okay. We've had women in the Navy for over 30 years. Okay? Right? So I mean, we saw a committee and also the halls have come out here. My vice chief of naval operations. Okay. So our vice chief of naval operations, he's not mine, it's ours. So my point is, we've worked through these things before and there's been doubt and wonder, because it's changed, all right? And I understand that, however, let me tell you something, Amigo, as it goes, this population of ours, if you look out around the world, this country of ours, we need women in the Navy, we need many more than we have. It's a truth, it's a fact, it's the demographics of our country. When you look at where the smart technical people, a lot of them are female and I as the CNO need many more of them to come in to the Navy, so we're working to do that. So let me tell you where we are. As you know, we've had women officers on SSBNs and SSGNs and we've had 10s and 10s and 10s. And so, you know, you listen to the blogosphere and all that and I don't get what you have and trust me, I listen to this, I get a whole bunch of advice from people all the time. And I'm not getting what you're getting on how things are versus, you know, how they might be if you see what I'm saying. I think we'll get through this just fine. We're on a track to do it, we'll do it deliberately and I think we'll be just fine. It's a kind of a fact of life in our society that we need more women in the Navy. Go ahead, respond. My opinion is that it's a bad idea, sir. I actually fully support it. It's not something I think is a bad idea. It's something that I think is going to be difficult, especially for the men of the submarine community because it is, in my opinion, a very big change. Yeah, but as you said, I come from that community. I'm very proud of that community and I'm glad that I came from, and if anybody can work this through, they can. That's my view of it and that's why we're doing it at the pace we are. Some say it's kind of quick, others vary. I call it deliberate and appropriate, so we'll be fine and we should be lucky that they're willing to join because, like I said, that's where the talent is and we've got to go do it. We've got to adapt as appropriate. Thank you. Okay. Good afternoon, sir. I'm SDG Wood Merrill from CSCS debt pro harbor. In regards to re-implementing or changing the retirement plan, you said every sailor in here, where blue would be grandfathered in, would you possibly consider bringing back the early retirement as well so that those sailors that may see, okay, that are not liking the changes, get out and still not walk away from 15 years of service? We always look at, that's called force shaping, as you've seen before, and companies use it. We look toward that as necessary if we feel it's appropriate and we will continue to do that. But I think that answers your question, but it'd be too early now to make that statement as such. Okay? Yes. Okay, look at you, the winner. Good afternoon, sir. Amy Womble, joint base pro harbor security department. My question today, sir, is on JTF Guantanamo Bay detention facility. I've served out there twice, and I'm pretty sure in this room may have people also who have served. The president mentioned earlier, as he did his state of the union address, that it's coming to a close, but he didn't really give a timeline. Can you elaborate when that timeline is gonna be or any knowledge on that, sir? Thank you. Well, it's kind of, there's a little bit of simple logic in here. These are detainees, and we're down to the tough ones, right? These are bad people. So you've got a choice here. You've got, if you wanna close the place, you gotta transfer them or let them go. So you're not gonna let them go, so you're gonna transfer them to a place that will take them, and that would be another country, or you move them to the United States in a prison. Or you try them and adjudicate the whole thing. You know what I mean? They go to prison or do whatever. That makes sense. So you kinda let them go, try them, transfer them to another country, or move them to another detention facility. That's what's gotta be worked out, and when that process gets done, it's very kinda gooey legally to do that. That's the process that has to get worked out. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. Okay, let me leave you with a thanks for your service and all that, what you do out there. This is, people say, hey, it's great in Hawaii. All you guys do is hang out in the sun, but it's not lost on me that those of you that deployed from Hawaii are on some of the very longest deployments and very rigorous deployments, and a cruiser destroys its submarines from what we do out there. So that's not lost on me. Two, take care of each other. We just, a gentleman came up and mentioned sexual assault reporting and all that. We still have a problem. We still have that out there. We are making progress. You're telling us that we are making progress, but we're still listening. If there are better ways to do things and we don't wanna slip back on our progress, but we've got a long road to go. So take care of each other, treat each other with dignity and respect. Your shipmates, you join this service and it was great to see the Halsey folks coming up with each other and others. They will come up and join their shipmate now. That's a good symbol and it's a good sign of that. So again, for you families, thanks for taking care of your sailor and keep those ideas coming. Thank you very much. Take care. Thank you. Thank you. I need to re-enlist these to meet me down here on center court as soon as we're done. Thank you.