 President Barack Obama visited Naval Station Rota to meet with base leadership, tour the guided missile destroyer USS Ross, and speak to service members and their families at an all-hands call. The President thanked the Spanish for being great partners, hosts and friends to all the American personnel stationed in Spain, and said the U.S. couldn't ask for a better ally. President Obama, but day in and day out, Americans and Spaniards like you served together shoulder to shoulder. Not only here, but in missions for our common security. We have great partners around the world, and I am absolutely confident that people of good will will ultimately overcome those forces that seek to divide and destroy us. Petty Officer Valerie Carson, Naval Station Rota. God bless you. God bless the United States of America. God bless Spain. Thank you very much.