 This is my ninth deployment and there's a different feel about the ship today than ones I've seen before. It's more of excitement. This is our chance to answer our nation's call and folks are really ready to go. I couldn't be more proud to be part of the team. Carriers present a very visible sign of our nation's resolve in our effort to protect the free flow of commerce and to ensure stability and security around the nation as we support freedom and democracy across the world. When a carrier deploys, it not only demonstrates or provides a tremendous amount of combat power and ability to enforce our nation's foreign policy objectives, but it also demonstrates our resolve and our commitment to our partners. During this deployment, we've had the opportunity to participate in major operations in the worldwide effort to eradicate and annihilate ISIS. We've also engaged in quite a few foreign relations projects through our theater security cooperation initiatives with many countries in the Mediterranean, in the Atlantic, and in the Middle East as well. And we've also provided escort through contested straits and a very key part of the world to ensure the free flow of commerce. So our participation in all of these efforts demonstrates the U.S.'s resolve and commitment to stability throughout the world. It's been neat to see the crew work through the various portions of deployment and maintain a very positive attitude, a high morale and an upbeat spirit. What typically happens is as you've been gone for a while, with still a while to go, that kind of thing tends to go up and down through the normal course of human nature. But the steady demand for our service and our continued excellent performance has really kept the crew upbeat and they've been positive throughout and they can be justified and proud. The great job that they did at a time when our service was greatly needed. I think it's obvious that the biggest factor in our success was simply the quality and the professionalism of our sailors. They've responded throughout the entire process. For us personally as a ship, from leaving the shipyard to getting through our training cycle on time around the holidays, which is in the real world, that's a big deal, to be ready to go right after the new year and then to operate at such a high level for seven months. We can buy all the technology we want and have all the strategy we want but in the bottom line is the execution of the individual sailors on the deck plate is what gets the job done and ours have just done a super job. Thank you for your support. It means an awful lot and those little gestures go a long way to helping maintain morale all the way through deployment. And to the sailors, congratulations for a super job. It's very proud to be a part of your team. Enjoy your well-earned time off and then let's get busy and get back to work.