 Every year at this time, we proudly commemorate the brave sailors of our service's naval construction battalions, naval civil engineer corps, and naval facilities engineering systems command. Since your inception, the fighting CBs and Marines have courageously fought, bled, and made the ultimate sacrifice together in the defense of this great nation. The CB-Marine relationship is a legendary one, forged in the fires of island-hopping campaigns across the Pacific during World War II, solidified on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan during the global war on terror, and renewed now, here where it all started 79 years ago on the Pacific as the CBs returned to the roots of working alongside Marines in support of fleet maneuver. Here in the 7th Fleet, CBs are postured and distributed as task-organized details, as the ideals stand in engineering force to gain entry and establish infrastructure on key maritime terrain. Just like during World War II, this littoral infrastructure is critical to enabling persistent fleet maneuver within contested space. Our can-do attitude, grit, and ingenuity have served as an inspiration for the past 79 years, as you have worked with Marines around the globe and across the range of military operations. Whether on the battlefield or in conducting humanitarian operations, CBs have always lived up to the motto, we build, we fight. It is that ethos, united with our fight-now mission that makes the CB-Marine team the most formidable in the Indo-Pacific to this day. It is with that special bond in mind that we thank you for your dedication to duty and honor you today on the anniversary of your founding. Happy birthday CBs and Semper Fidelis.