 To the men and women of the 27th Special Operations Team, let me just say this. It cannot be more proud and excited to be standing here in front of you and rejoining this team. From the scientists we now receive is the first salute as commander of the 27th Special Operations Team. We wanted to reach out to our cannon family because a lot has changed on base recently. Our Air Commandos have a mission that is essential to maintaining America's security and ensuring American victory on the battlefield. Last week the Department of Defense announced that fully vaccinated personnel are no longer required to wear masks at DOD facilities. This wing right now has been through more and seen more challenges and worked through more things as a team than I would have imagined. I'm just incredibly proud of the level of work and the efforts that these leaders have been able to get through. Our Airmen and their families and the level of sacrifice that we all kind of saw and bound together to keep the mission going here. Nowhere during the pandemic did we stop deploying people or did we stop executing our operational mission from here. We never stood down or alert. All of those things, we take them for granted, but they take a tremendous amount of effort. We delivered what we are on call to deliver for the nation on multiple occasions all during a pandemic. I'm just incredibly proud and thankful for the Airmen, their families and this community that supported us.