 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of the commanding officer, Colonel Christopher M. Murray, welcome to Marine Aircraft Group 36 Change of Command ceremony, where Colonel Christopher M. Murray will relinquish command to Colonel Brett A. Allison. Today's ceremony has been executed by the officers, Marines, and sailors of Marine Aircraft Group 36. The commander troops for today's ceremony is Lieutenant Colonel Allison Dottos. The adjutant for today's ceremony is First Lieutenant QE. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the invocation given by Commander John B. Sears, Chaplain Corps, United States Navy. Let us pray. Great and mighty God, we gather this morning to look back to remember and look forward with hope. We look back to say well done and forward to say Godspeed. For today, we bear witness to one of our nation's oldest and most sacred acts, the peaceful transition of power. God, we ask this day to be one of celebration for Colonel Murray and his family. Be with Brendan and his beloved as he diligently studies to better our world. Be with Justin, the next generation of Murray, to be a Kubasaki Dragon and answer your call to wear the cloth of our nation. And as her nest soon grows empty, be with Julie, grant her satisfaction and a job well done as a military spouse, and renew joy in time for herself and with her husband. Be with Colonel Murray as he suffers through long prayers and lofty speeches and a spotlight he'd rather avoid. Let him hear the words of those close to him, for we know that beneath that battle-hardened visage lies an only slightly less hard heart of a warrior, but a heart that is gracious and caring and indeed loving as a leader, husband, father, and friend. So grant him patience as all those who counted a blessing to have served with him, spend this time letting him know. Most of all, God, as he receives an award and tokens of deep appreciation, grant that the gifts he receives in abundance be ones he will never hold in his hands, but ones he holds in his heart forever as he remembers this day and his time in command. God, we wish as well your continued care and guidance for Colonel Allison, Kim, Josh, and Odessa, Grace, Sarah, and David. For the demands of the job ahead, grant them in quality what they will give up of time and quantity. Each day of this experience, let them know their nation gratefully receives their sacrifices as an entire family. Most of all, Heavenly Father, let your chosen son, Brett, know that long before he ever heard the title Marine, you guided, guarded, and girded him for this time in this place with this authority to keep your world safe and all your children free and at peace. Finally, Lord, for all of us who have witnessed these events, do not let us leave the same men and women we entered in, but renew in each of us today our commitment to our values of honor, courage, and commitment that we might be your living witnesses in your world. In your holy name we pray. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Present-day parades in the Marine Corps have their basis in both history and tradition. The mass formation of troops on one long line at Close Hill made possible the massing of firepower from muzzle-loaded muskets of the past. The adjunct forms a line of battle, and in those early days that line consisted of two or three ranks, much like in the parade you will see today, aviation operations as a med level aviation combat element. This history of Marine Aircraft Group 36 begins as helicopter transport 36 was commissioned at Marine Corps Facilities Santa Ana on 2 June 1952. While VMO 6 was making history in Korea as the first Marine Helicopter Squadron in U.S. history to conduct combat operations, MAG 36 Squadrons consisting of HMR 361, 362, and 363 were devoting long hours to testing and improving the techniques of employing the HRS-1 helicopters and amphibious ship to shore movements. Throughout the 1990s MAG 36 units participated in a variety of contingency operations. In 1995 MAG 36 units conducted relief operations in Kobe, Japan after 6,400 people lost their lives in a massive earthquake, and also participated in a withdrawal of United Nations forces from Somalia during Operation United Shield. Nearly every year MAG 36 deploys as a med level aviation combat element, often supporting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. Today Marine Aircraft Group 36 is made up of over 2,000 Marines and Sailors from 6 Squadrons supporting training exercises all across the Pacific and around the world. The Marines and Sailors from Marine Aircraft Group 36 remain prepared for when the nation calls. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the march on in the colors and remain standing for the flame of the national anthem. Please be seated. Commanding General, First Marine, Colonel Christopher M Murray. Colonel Christopher M Murray, 6 May 2023. You will stand attached for your duties as a commanding officer. David H. Berger, General, United States Marine Corps, Commanding Officer, Marine Corps, to Colonel. Effective 09, 26 May, 2023. You are directed to assume your duties as the commanding officer. David H. Berger, General, United States Marine Corps, Commanding Officer, Major General, Eric P. Austin. It was a wonderful day of 36 reflecting briefly on Colonel Murray's tour as the commander of 36. Thank you all for joining us. A great Colonel culture on this island. I am able to participate in that. Many more Marines. A list of the history that we presented at Lank 36 is amazing. A group of pioneers in the Marine Corps. A helicopter aviation assault support in the aviation. 1952 Santa Ana, El Toro. Equated themselves well in the vehicle. 1969, just a couple of years ago. A period of time that I've been here ever since. I've been supporting the 31st Marine at 50 ceiling. I've been supporting the 31st Marine at 50 ceiling. I've been supporting the 31st Marine at 50 ceiling. And the way before you is the most lethal weapon. We're pretty sure the Marines are in front of you. But behind them are an amazing array of hardware. That these Marines leverage the HVAs, 1 Yankee Zulu, brand new aircraft. If anyone with a three-year-old wants an airplane, they can also do an aviation fitting. One ended in an unprepared gentleman. It's at FB 20-Zero. Certainly our heavy lift. It's important to work toward new changes to it. We're going to raise leadership. Supporting the 31st Marines is a huge tax on this team. They do it extraordinary well. So, Port Starboard with the two B&M's that support it. So that's an amazing capability. And the other thing that they do is they lead the HVAs. A lot of contingency make happen. For third-marines missionaries, of course. Which very often response to conflict and crisis. Mostly crisis. Supposing military assistance and disaster relief. And guess what? Three point stakes right now get ready to go to respond to it along. So, we're going to talk about that. It's an amazing fact that that amazing look. That's an interesting thing that I'm glad to see. I'm trying to even brag about it a little bit. So, it's a well led match. Let's talk about General Murray real quick. He's got an amazing pedigree. And as the state of the economy doesn't like us talking about it. There's a lot of changes to it. But in a formation like this, there's one toward that. I'd go with the man who gets the award. The guy didn't want the award. But I'm telling you, it's a lot of air circulation. But we're going to give him a little less moment than this afternoon. But he certainly has done a wonderful job to be a commander. And a unique pedigree. So, he and Julie are good suck hygrads. We met here a couple of years ago. Came back his first tour. Was in the HVAs 365. Commanded the VLN 265. Comes back as the new commander. So, this officer, those of us here. To go very well, he's done well. He was outside at the first pond three massive. But he was the perfect pedigree. The perfect leader from that 36 in the past two years. And he's certainly entered in by Julie, Justin, Brandon and that wonderful team that enables him to perform at the level that he does. So, it's an old family thing for all you've done. They'll let him be a great officer for you. And everyone that knows, Team Warrior knows it. It's a great co-captain. Amazing team. Well done. I was making this morning about my comments. I was going to use the term prisoner. She came to mind. That's kind of a bad way to talk about going to the wing staff. We're going to do a 36 for Colonel Allison. It's a little bit of a transfer form, right? Maybe so we're going to take the transfer form. It's over. So, we're having a good fortune to have an officer of this pedigree. It's going to be a wing staff. It's going to be the G3. A job that the MCA has to tell me Commander knows extraordinary about. And I mentioned it's changing me a couple of weeks ago. But it's an opportunity without hesitation. It's one of the most important jobs in third pre-executionary courses. So, we're lucky to have two inscriptions. So, thank you well done. And to another side of the transfer portal, we've got Colonel Allison, who I first met when I was in Quantica when he came out of support for our planning efforts. And I immediately took a liking to him. But what I really got to know was last August with him, David, and Ozzy and their dog on the Patriot Express. Right? That's when you get to know someone. It's that one-man friend of yours. What do you want to know? It was visible experiences you all know that bring you on the wing of Express. But we made the most of it. And then I've had the very good fortune of serving with him. He's done two years on the wing staff and was selected for command after his first year. And he, too, is the right officer to come here at this time. He understands the theater. He understands the challenges. He understands the wing. And if I was a wing dog, it's a medic. And he's a great person, a great leader. Also under your buddy, Kim, Sergeant Josh, Allison, his wife, recently married, are unable to join us as they're out of their torrent. I want to say a good word for that second time. Seventh Marines, Grace Sarah and David, you guys are in great tension. Thank you for having me. Counting on the Marine Corps and we're first going on in the 1960s when we've done for the wing of what you guys are going to do. So that's enough of me, ladies and gentlemen. I've got to say, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to accept that you have to do this the former commander, we're here after the 36th, and a good friend of the good officer who's coming to the wing, Colonel Christopher. Out of your information that, you know, I've been working hard all week until it's sort of started to get better and better. It starts me from along the flight line that the commander troops in the Ex-O and the guys probably two weeks from me and Salty over at tomorrow's and the new intern over here is doing seating charts at six in the morning this morning. Anyway, incredible offer. Probably why Terrell Austin. Sure, thanks for being here. Most people probably don't know this, but we've made an investigation debatable ceremony. It's got a few thank yous that I want to run through real quick. Fourth, first at the Fourth Marines teamed up with Ag 36 to pick the person. It's a pretty amazing mark of work, turning it into something that still gets the teaching objectives, but also lets us do what we need to do and it's really insulting to continue. Debo now spam for portal with LCS for time out by the station. So it's making back team out of about eight hours and Tim Morello of the ship's son and the grandfather was a Marine. My dad's 32 year both of them certainly needs to be a Marine officer and be one of them. You can mention becoming a Marine I think he was pretty after I graduated high school and kicked him in the butt and said, here's the car, drive down the floor. I'm studying a little bit more your independence and I'm not sure about the high school spirit and I don't know if that's going to work out. Justin my youngest you know he's he's been the vast majority of his school ages in Virginia all that too and those two were about a year on Saturday for about a month. It's much like you know I didn't have to do that. All far in soccer we used to get a lot of school and I said you know I thought the family and also we've gotten down this that's great getting focused on things that are important so not exactly sure what's coming next but we'll figure it out let me kind of show here with talking about the man just a little bit new WSS 172 the center of gravity and there's no way that we could succeed as a man the way that we operate we do not have WSS 172 interaction with one of us the 18 exercises that they've participated in over the last two years across six different countries on everything from building schools in Thailand in Fairfield Davidson in the Philippines and one of the things that I'm most proud of doesn't seem like a lot but integrating with the Japanese aviation is very important it's very hard it takes a very long time not too long we'll go there very far with the Japanese H-66 Maus 36 brightness in the mag could not be more impressed with that squatter they managed any transfers any acceptances per year the support all the units on the 10-month they support the 31st wheel sometimes they support the 13th U they do it all throughout the theater incredible job I think our biggest company we can give to that squatter I've had 10 EDCOs roll through here and every single one of them is told the other way out that Maus 36 is the best Maus that they have ever built so much that that Maus takes all the units on the flight H-M-H not watched the readiness of the H-M-H steadily inclined increased over the last two years probably from the point where there was a question about the relevancy out here there's no longer that question I think everybody in this theater as much as we do I think those airplanes will be flying soon flights to the Philippines mainly H-M-H kind of a similar situation not sure how they're going to fight out there but the H-M-H units have come out and developed H-M-H for our time striker and certainly show that the role that they fill with you know long range precision shipping munition and they certainly are going to make a lot of conversation also about the members of the aircraft that they're going to have finally the VMM is 262 and 265 until that I don't know many units in the Marine Corps that are busier in these two squads do a year at the MAG go to the VU to break the VU come right back to the MAG deal with exercises we deal with PCS cycles great initiative issues lack of range as well as challenges we can name it they continue to perform that what the sword is required for all the frags all the exercises for ACM and somehow they manage to maintain T2 readiness levels it's not T1 readiness levels the entire time which is well better than the rest of the V22 fleet all right CG likes to say that you know MAG 36 is a lip collar MAG and I agree they are exactly kind of a reputation that I wanted for this MAG is put your head down and do the work get it done I'd also say sir they're the gold standard for programing ops and aviation for certainly been my pleasure I think that perhaps some of my job opportunity of the time unless time is really quick which because you're taking over an incredible MAG they've been my neighbors and Brent's been my neighbors for the last year which could be out in a number of places looking right next door to you but super gracious a number of all time I've only got a policy to sign on my house once it's yours now I take it off sitting outside the back door but incredible officer and incredible leader and big family and I look forward to watching you so you do a commanding officer of that 36 corporate house I also thank you for the mentorship I felt at ECS I felt that the guidance and assistance that you could get for my fellow commanders who's six is sergeant's manager his master of attendance various staff members from the various staff still here today friends, family and issue partners thank you all for coming out and taking time to get this together to really honor the Marines and say there's a little bit more interact from the various staff I want to give a special shout out to my G5 crew with master and presence Ron I apologize I put a journey trick on them totally like a team I moved to about 8 or 5.20 that was the way I could guarantee it but I do appreciate all the work that you guys have shown me so much love and support over the years it's at the Three Left Band a truly impressive organization to make any certain special occasion great Sarah David thank you so much for having us served in all four Marine Marine craft teams I can see with you you are the most what you do day in day out I'm excited to get off the bed I thank you the best in the average of my life as we advance the problem Luma flowers donations will be made to the land foundation and the USO a place our forebears fought and a place where those who serve today preserved the peace for future generations to honor our mandate to be ready for crisis and war and to pay tribute to our long 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