 I shouldn't have been confused at Sarge's introduction there when the crowd goes crazy and I thought I was at a mosh pit because every time I live about a half a mile from here every time this ship gets underway or It comes back into port the parking horn, and I'm going away horn has the loudest blasts ever everything Sarge does is supersized I Would expect nobody that he invited to unsupercise your excitement of his change of command today or The fact that you're confused that he successfully got through this change command today Big fighter time. We have a lot of fun together. Hey Sarge. Thanks for Thanks for the introduction it goes on and on and on it just means I'm old and the crowd is pretty excited I didn't use a cane to walk up here So I appreciate that lots of great faces. I see in the crowd most important faces are the Abraham Lincoln crew here, so make sure you jump around swish your legs We can't hardly see it so you can move and do just about anything just so you don't keel over in the back But as Sarge said, thank God for the breeze today. Hey web nice having you here today I know you had our studio over the last three weeks in Hawaii running a large-scale exercise 21 That was in the media about a thousand times today great role for you And I can't wait to talk to you about it you and Gina have been with us for a long time going back to big Fighter roles and I'm gonna have a heckling story for you here in the speech too. So all good. Did Nancy Brown make it? I don't recognize Nancy out. There you are I don't recognize you out of uniform here today But it's great to have you here today. It doesn't surprise me with your Energetic personality why you're also in the Sarge crowd too, so I appreciate that Sakuakano, are you here? Okay, so you're the one I'm writing to all the time about IWS stuff It's good to put a name to a face really good to put a name to a face Now and then Marvin Can't tell everybody there you are Marvin. I can't tell what everybody's Everybody's mass on thanks for taking care of me when you were with Admiral Davidson all good friends here a warm welcome Andrea Is as you've worked through this Emma 16 call at Coronado. Hi We've known you guys known you in Sarge a long time. I haven't known you as well, but back to Black Lion bashes Good times back at Oceana and then our excitement for Millie and I to come out here and know that you guys are out here in California with us. It was it's been pretty awesome. And of course you've supersized our lifestyle since we've been out here You know Walt had to give me three words because it's part of the speech prep for this that would describe you compassion humor and patience I Agree with the compassion piece the energy is there the humor piece. That's flat out. He nailed that one The patience piece For putting him in his place maybe there In the 18 years you've added marriage when moves transitions Deployments the last one especially under ways and all the other adversities that both of you guys have put up with I want to thank you all for what you've done The Navy will never be able to repay you for the times that we've taken away But know that the leadership that you gave to our sailors and their families and spouses and our clubs Can never be measured and we're never going to be able to repay you for that So thank you for supporting Sarge all the way through his career Mom brother sister-in-law niece that's the cheetah flips that we've done whether they're here They're gonna be yeah, yeah these days so you guys made it we did plane trains and automobiles yesterday Some people made it some people didn't some people are gonna be virtual so that's good So thanks for everybody for at least joining with Sarge day I'm glad you guys can come here and support him for his last couple years from July to August now two years in Charge of this great carrier Change command. Yep. It sure is it's one of the most time-honored traditions that we have in the United States Navy's we celebrate the past and we look forward to the future and Pay tribute to the privilege as well as the immense burden of leadership and the humbling responsibility That it carries This past year has been tough COVID-19 has put us in a spot that we could never thought of how we were gonna fight out of that It's been tough on everyone personal hardships uncharted environments It threw a curveball at us and no one saw was coming Sarge your efforts on Abraham Lincoln with COVID-19 were particularly incredible from the last job that I had When bullet Miller had you in charge of designing the playbook for COVID-19 for naval aviation I knew we were in good hands and then when I saw the product it was pretty impressive You probably probably pales in comparison when you think I know you did a lot of work for that But how much that product was used throughout the Navy? I can have in three and five as the well as well as to build the standard operating guidance for all the Navy pretty Phenomenal work that you did for that You led the team with tenacity keen focus mission readiness and you kept the crew mission ready safe and healthy I Met sergeant Oceana obviously is a 213 guy black lion bash We're not gonna go talk into a whole bunch of stuff because the club used to be great back in those days, so He speaks after me therefore he has the he has ultimate retribution I'll just say we had a lot of fun at Oceana flying the big-wing fighter was a ton of things a Great a great way to grow up in naval aviation But on top of the great things that you did back when you were a jio and you can read your bio You see how well rounded which means he's done a lot of jobs And he's been told to do a lot of hard things while skidding along on sandpaper You'll see that he has conditioned himself for this job Ten month deployment as chap said you called that a long one and your comment on duke them didn't make it Seem like you liked it that much 295 days to be exact. It was around the world 72,000 nautical miles third fleet fifth fleet seventh fleet 33 underway replenishments those are all good for my two hours of conning alongside as a wannabe Cag 32 transits of the Strait of Hormuz. That's amazing. Malacca Singapore other things and All doing executing our national defense strategy 5000 aircrafts sorties 10,000 hours 400 sorties in Afghanistan and Syria Weapons delivered against ISIS and al Qaeda switching home ports, Norfolk, San Diego There was no time for Abraham Lincoln or this leadership team To rest and hit the beach when you arrived in San Diego as you embarked on the largest planned incremental availability Ever completed on an aircraft carrier in San Diego Your team did over 4,000 spaces systems upgrades thousands 26,000 work packages all during that short schedule and for once a Schedule was done on time You saw lung in the background didn't you? Believe me when I got here. I saw him in the background to praying that you will keep this thing on schedule and you did a nice job You let onboard preps for integration of the next generation air wing platforms Which is part of our air wing of the future with JSF F-35 the MFA 314 CMV 22 Ospreys and our E2D which is going to be the quarterback of the fleet The air wing when we start flying but the partial set is already set on Vincent and it's on Abraham Lincoln now lot of awards 2019 Air Force's Battle E 1920 retention excellence awards, which is incredible based on the environment that we've been in the Phoenix self-sector Phoenix award 2020 Chief of Naval Air Force's safety award EPA awards Pactleets selection for the Secretary of Navy environmental awards. I mean, it's just a who's who of lists underneath your great character You've kept people healthy in this crazy environment easy to you You know for a job well done And for that last horn blast when you came in the other day List of achievements is tough to act to follow Men and women of Abraham Lincoln are in very capable hands with Captain Barsham at B-12 Amy you have learned I got to figure up within the mass here You've absolutely earned your way here, and I know great achievement and experiences are on the horizon for you and the crew You've got an impressive career to in 26 years of service Great leadership skilled helicopter pilot over 3,000 hours flying the platform a warfighter Briefly served as aid to camp to strike group 7 department head in the warlords 51 Super-sized in Japan EA to the J6 com joint staff commanding officer for the Spartans of 71 HSM 70 did you transition them to the new stuff? Okay, I expected that You guys earned the 2011 Jimmy Thatcher and the Arnold as bull awards for tactical innovation and excellence What a great that squadron is a great reputation of paid the way for the HSL HSM and HSM capabilities So I appreciate that as well as the 2020 2012 battle II award I don't have a battle you're in Jealous this can be for the CEOs that are in that ribbon It's not a new ship for you in 2016. You were Abraham Lincoln XO a little different piece for you to set in right now And you most recently commanded the dock landing ship transport ship San Diego a welcome back and I look forward to working with you So some comments Abraham Lincoln is not a strange ship for me Back when Webb was in Djibouti another garden spot of the world and I was in fifth fleet another Sarge was sailing around in the Abraham and the Arabian Gulf Sarge Alexander with shoe shoemaker We're also on an around-the-world cruise doing phenomenal work maintaining the stability in that region So from Sarge Alexander to Sarge slaughter It's not hard to imagine the excellence that has been transferred down from two Sarges But also that has been retained in this carrier Abraham Lincoln Lincoln's the fifth of the Nimitz class carriers, but it performs even more spectacular than it looks today T-Bone you're reading pretty good today, and I know as an XO you were out here scrubbing till about 15 minutes prior to change of command today nice job and getting the ship ready Talk a little bit about carriers because they're in the news and next year 22 is going to be the 100th anniversary for the first purpose built first Purpose-built carrier in the United States Navy. We're now engaged in great power competition. It's no kidding All you have to do is look into papers and read our competition with Russia emergence of Russia and the Communist Party in China specifically The carriers made for command of the seas and CNO's guidance for sea control and power projection That is why this platform exists We lose sight though that we've been in conflict since 1991 desert storm desert shield Every one of us is in uniform has known nothing but conflict in all of our careers in the Navy Again, we've been gaining reps and sets The Navy has been ready to expand over the last 20 years And through those reps and sets we already have expanded in our capabilities Exemplified by the last exercise the LSE large-scale exercise 21 the carriers been key to stability Response and assurance across all phases of conflict From Nimitz class to Gerald R. Ford was just completed its critical full-ship shock trials successfully on Her road to employment She will be something that will now have the attention on the other coast Navy and naval aviation is moving forward Geography and geopolitics make land-centric solutions impractical and difficult The carrier strike group right capability right place right time Forward under distributed maritime operation concepts Practiced during LSE 21 across the globe Make the carrier strike group a formidable force multiplier that demands attention Good luck Marvin The complexity of the next conflict paired with the current discussions by some on the capabilities of the carrier give the opponent Complete situational awareness and extraordinary probability of hits. I Would caution that the fowl of war works on both sides of conflict High-end tactics techniques and procedures across all domains create confusion in the adversaries kill chain Targeting a moving object is complex technical While ground and shore-based targets have been fixed since the earth cooled I'm confident the lethality and survivability of the carrier strike group dispersed robust C2 Multidomain agile survivable effective self-sufficient full combat scale capability give the carrier strike group Centered on carriers and airwings the ability to implement these fundamentals throughout the maritime space I'm confident in our future Because of the resilient sailors Chiefs and officers who employ these machines I'm especially confident in the men and women who command them Congrats Sarge on a job. Well done and B-12 for your leadership as this great ship prepares for Deployment and then sales West God bless our Navy God bless naval aviation and God bless B-12 coming in and Sarge for leaving such a great ship behind. Thank you