 Commander, Sixth Fleet, Vice Admiral James Fogo, visited USS Porter in Split, Croatia. Porter, one of four destroyers forward deployed to rota Spain, hosted a reception for distinguished visitors and Croatian media. During your stay, I encourage you to get to know my sailors. They are all great ambassadors and they like nothing more than to talk about their ship and their time on board. We're just under a week away with being done with our first four-month patrol. A highlight of our time has been the opportunity to work with our allies and to achieve common goals. In that time, we have conducted exercises to flex every major mission area in the ship and we have seen a lot of great places. Vice Admiral Fogo met with Croatia's Chief of Naval Operations a few months ago and discussed future plans for cooperation between the two navies. We said, hey, let's do some things together. Let's do some maritime awareness. Let's do maritime security. Let's do some theater security cooperation and work with it. So here we are. And our sailors absolutely want to be able to do it like that. Fogo also toured Croatian naval facilities and praised the strong working relationship. Six fleet shares with Croatia. And we have the strongest bonds in the relationship between our two navies. And so we thank you as NATO partners and allies for helping to maintain not only the security in the Adriatic but also the Mediterranean. Petty Officer Kelby Sanders, Naples, Italy.