 Yo, yo, you aren't nervous or anything, right? I'm very nervous. I'm not sure I'll remember the O's. But, uh, OK. So we're going to do a re-enlightenment. Good morning. How are you? I'm going to belate my last. I'm going to bring you baskets. OK, how's that? Do you hear anything? Baskets are flipping right here. What does all mean? This is on the cable. How's the C&O sound on the debit side? First off, you're still live. Right now, you're only working camera. Sure, it'll be a nice solid shot somewhere. All right, hold that one. Ready. It's taken straight up. Straight as long. Ready to throw or retreat. All right, first off. Turn it off. Turn the mic to external. Ready, first off? All right, you need a little more headroom. All right, hold it. Ready, first off. Taking first off. First off, live. First off, you need various look now. What's up? Are you good now? Sure. Ladalia. Ladalia. All right. Ready, first off. What's your name? Louis. Are you a junior? Oh, no kidding. Hi, miss. What's your name? Renee. Thanks. You want to hold that here and come on in here. We'll get this picture. I need more pictures. Thank you, sir. All right. Thank you, sir. All right. Now, where did you and your wife meet in high school? At the Christian Science for Eating Room. Yes, sir. Is that good enough? That's closer. Did they talk about that at home in front of you? All the time? Where they met? What do you do? I'm a personal trainer. Personal trainer? Where? In San Diego area or here? Temecula. Temecula? Very nice. What a pleasure. Where are you from originally? Rochester, New York. Oh, no kidding. Where are you from originally? Same, sir. Oh, so you knew each other in high school? Yes, sir. So when you say, let me tell you something, honey. Whenever I was in, you say, oh, wait a minute. You were there. That's not true, right? Yes. Thanks, miss. It was a great day over here. What a pleasure to meet you. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Hey, Sam Chief. How you doing? You got any family here? Yes, sir. All right. What's your last name? Andrade. Androly. Anybody want to claim Andrade? Yes. All right. We got some. All right. Oh, what a lovely family. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, ma'am. Nice to meet you. Thank you. Hello, sir. How are you doing? Good. Is this your son? Son-in-law? Son-in-law? Son-in-law? He must be okay. You're here. All right. And we've got four beautiful kids. Wow. Could we have their names? Rosie. Rosie. Charlotte. Eleanor Rickey. Eleanor Rickey. Where did you all meet? Florida. Florida? Nobody's very specific about that here. Some club... Well, there. See, their father-in-law, he's always got the truth. I gave you a coin, didn't I? No, sir. I didn't. Well, you were on probation. All right. Okay. Thank you. For you. Ma'am, can you hold that? All right. Here you go, Charlotte. Thank you. There you go. You stay away from the tomacula with these things. I want you out there at the gym and off the machines and all that. So, sir, where are you from? Jacksonville, Florida. Jacksonville, Florida? And did you two meet in Jacksonville, or are you in Jacksonville? Man. Celebrate 40 years. 40 years. How about a hand? 40 years. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome to meet you. Thank you. He's okay, isn't he? Yeah. I'm going to keep him. All right. We're going to keep him. All right. Thank you so much, folks. Thanks so much. All right. Hey, Chief, how you doing? Yes, sir. You have anybody here with you? Yes, sir. My husband and my baby boy. Anybody want to claim Chief Thomas here? All right. Husband and baby boy. All right. Where's your roof? There. There you go. Thank you so much. Where are you from? Rock Island, Illinois. Rock Island, Illinois. Hello. How are you? Are you from Rock Island, Illinois, too? Actually, I was born in Jamaica. You were born in Jamaica? And what's this young codger's name? Nathaniel. Nathaniel? Yeah. Man, I'll tell you. You look like a baby, isn't it? All right. Do you want to hold this, and we'll take a picture? We've got one more here. She's still, I don't know. We're on video, I think. Oh. All right. We're taking many. Where'd you meet? Right here in San Diego. Actually, I'm based in class. I'm based in class? Central Texas High College. Oh, okay. Excellent. So both, higher education, huh? Yes, sir. Right. We use tuition assistance? Yes, sir. All right. Right on. Tuition assistance, right? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, buddy. Oh, wait. This one for him, too. I gave you one, didn't I? Oh, geez. I'm sorry. That's why I had two in my hand. All right. Thanks, major. All right. You up next? Good morning, sir. All right, chief. Anybody here with you? Not today, sir. Is this you and I? We're kind of slummin' it, huh? Yes, sir. All right. Well, here's the coin. Awesome. Here we go. Wait a minute. We got to get the thing here. Now we're at it. All right. All right. Yeah. And then where did you move and where did you grow up then? Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles? So right up the road, please. Yes, sir. Very nice. Where are you stationed? Maybe reach the southwest. Okay. Nice. You do funeral honors? Yes, sir. Well, that's a tough job. And unfortunately, busier than you need to be. Yes, sir. All right. Well, thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you very much. All right. Here we go. Carfaro? Is that how you say it? Yes, sir. All right. Nice to see you. Do you want to claim Carfaro? Go on once. You know how to say hesitated here. Do you get any SRB for this remiss? No, sir. All right. That maybe that's it. Does he get some money? I gave you a coin, right? Oh, no, sir. Oh, I didn't give you a coin. All right. Well, you were on probation, too, I guess. Here you go. Oh, my gosh. What a good-looking young men here. There you go. What's your name, sir? I'm Gabriel. Gabriel? In your name? Kirsten. Kirsten? Hi, miss. What's your name? Chiara. Chiara. And your name is? Brittany. All right. So you know the drill. Where did you meet? It was actually standard NP issue, sir. We came to see you back. She came. No, sir. Well, yeah, I'm not going to repeat that. I don't think people heard what you said. Where did you meet? In San Diego, you met? We actually met volunteering with the Boys and Girls Club. Volunteering with the Boys and Girls Club of Utah. Utah. Very nice. Now you want to look over there. He's going to take your picture. You'll be able to, like, blot me out and use this for your Christmas cards. In fact, this is such a good-looking family. We've got to take them without me in it. Go ahead. There we go. All right. This is nice to meet you. Thanks for coming. Thank you. Okay. Primac? Is that how you say it? Primac. Primac, sir. Primac. Anybody have anybody here? Just all by yourself. All right. Let me give you a coin for your poor guy. All right. So where are you from? Brooklyn, New York, sir. Brooklyn, New York. How about them Mets, huh? They on their way? Yankees fan, sir. Yankees fan. Well, they did okay this weekend, huh? Yes, sir. They go work to do that. You know that, right? Are you a Rod fan? No, sir. Jesus. Jesus. Okay. I tell you, but he retired. You know that, right? Yes, sir. Okay. Nice to meet you. Hi. Do you have family or friends here? No, sir. Only my NC. Your NC? You want to bring him or her down? NC. Where are you from? Cottenport. Cottenport. Cottenport. What's that name? Nothing. Nothing. Chief. Oh, yeah. I gave you a coin, didn't I? No, sir. All right. Jesus, I gave you a coin. I'll give you a coin. Here you go. All right. You want to hold that for me? And we have the chief get in here. We'll take a picture. Okay. What do you do? I'm an engineer. Engineer? Oh, good job. It's right there in your form. Where are you located? Naval Special Warfare in the Justice Department. Very good. So you're hanging out with the SEALs? Yes. All right. They take care of you, don't they? They do. You feel safe, don't you? Yes, sir. Yeah. I understand. Nice to meet you. My pleasure. Okay. Carlson. Anybody? Do you have anybody here? Yes, sir. My parents. Your parents? All right. Here come the Carlson's. They jumped right up, so you must be in good stead. I'll give you the coin for me. Where are you from? Hatsugi. Hatsugi? Oh, very nice. Hello. How are you, sir? How are you doing? Hi, John Greener. Nice to meet you. My pleasure. Where are you from? Denver. Okay. Hello. Hi. I'm Sakura. Sakura? Oh, man. Sonomi. Sonomi? Very nice to see you. I'm going to move over a little bit, because he won't like it. He'll be in the picture. I'll give coins out. Now, this is your father? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to tell him who these other folks are. I'll start guessing. I'll embarrass myself. This is my girlfriend. Your girlfriend. Sonomi Carlson. Okay. I got all that. Well, come on in here, folks. We'll get a picture. Very nice. You got that? Yeah. Here's the coin. Thank you. Is he all right? Yeah. He may be a keeper, but he's still on probation, as I say. We'll figure that out later. Nice to meet you, sir. We spent two tours in Yacosca. So, there you go. Yeah. I was on the midway. Yep. Kitty Hawk. Yep. Kitty Hawk, all the way through. Yep. A few years there yourself. Just a little bit. Did you go to high school, Kenneth, then? Yeah. Because I'm an American high school, huh? Yes. Ooh. That's good school. All right. Nice to meet you. Thanks for joining us. Yes, sir. Lou, how are you, buddy? Do you have any friends or family here? Yes, sir. My wife. Your wife's coming? Here she comes. Hello. How are you? My pleasure. All right. Here's the coin for you. Yeah. Just rub down. Lou, here you go, buddy. Thank you. Beijing, China? Yes, sir. What were you doing over there? Were you living there? No. Visiting? You were born in Beijing, China? In the military. Yeah. My wife. In China. So you both came over and immigrated? Yes. Very nice. So is your family over here as well? Yes. Very nice. Where do they live? Oakland, California. Oakland, California? Okay. Why don't we step just a little bit this way and make it there? Good. All right. So where did you two meet? I know in the city, but what were you doing? Is that in the box? That's sealed in the box, the vault. These people are dying to know. They love it because they may be thinking, how do I meet a girl? There's a lot of guys out here. University? You're studying? Okay. We heard that before. That's a good cover. I like it. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Okay. Mr. Cruz, a culture son? Yes. Is that how you say it? Culture son. Okay. Do you have family or friends here? Yes. My wife and my kids. Oh, great. Please come on down. Another nice family. You're a lucky man, aren't you? Thank you. Okay. You want to move over just a little bit. Hello, ma'am. How are you? I'm good. That's my coin. If you don't mind. Hi, kiddo. What's his name? Elijah. Elijah? And her name? Elisa. Very nice little kids. Here we go. Everybody ready? All right. You guys have your own photographer. This is unbelievable. All good? No. Okay. So, you know what I'm going to ask you. Where did you meet? We met in Jacksonville, Florida. Jacksonville, Florida? Yes, sir. Through a friend? Yes. So the first time you met him, did you say, oh, man, this is a man for me? Or did you say... I actually, I was of interest at... You weren't interested? I'm very... I'm very persuasive, sir. All right. So you were relentless, persuasive, and all that, huh? Yes, sir. You could sell sunglasses to wherever. Very nice. All right. Nice. Congratulations, and it's great to meet you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Not moving along as fast as you want, am I? Manto, is that how you say it? All right. Nice to meet you. Do you have a family of friends here? I do. All right. Excellent. That's a good first name. Elijah. Here's your coin. Now, where are you from? Lee? Yes. Nice to meet you. Hello. You claim him? All right. Hi, ma'am. How are you? My pleasure. I'm sorry? Keon. Keon. Nice to meet you. Hello, sir. How are you? A ranger, huh? With the army, huh? But that's okay. We're joining this town. No, it's a big lie. We're all Navy town here, but please join us. Oh, wait a minute. I got to get... Why don't you get in here, sir? And if you go ahead and get set up. I'll give you the little kids. Hello. What's your name? Eva? Milana. Milana? Very nice. I gave you a coin. I didn't give you. You're welcome. Sir, would you accept my coin? Awesome. From just a sailor to a ranger. Thank you, sir. Here we go. You're going to have to hold that over there by yourself. I'm going to be on this side of your parents. Nice to... Now, where do you folks live? Texas. Texas? Colleen. So you still live there where you're from? Yes. Okay. And you're over here for the reenlistment? Yes. You've got some pool, buddy. Well, it's great to see you. Thanks for coming today. Pleasure. Is it real? Real. Real? Oh, do you have any friends there? You're just going to wing it with me, huh? There you go. Where are you from? Hagerstown, Maryland. Hagerstown, Maryland, of course. They've got a outlet there, right? Yes, they do. Yeah, did you ever shop the outlet there? I worked there. You worked there? What did you work in? At the Gap. At the Gap? Yes. Okay, discount? Discount. Discount? How much discount? I don't remember, so it was a long time ago. You don't remember? A long time ago, and did you spend a lot of money there? Yes. Okay, very good. What do you do here? I'm an FC, but I'm getting re-rated to FT. FT? Yes. Very nice. To, and then out the sea somewhere? Yes. You assess Michigan. Michigan? Congratulations. Thank you, sir. I got enough coins. We just need this. All right, we're getting a deal? Aguilar. Aguilar. Sorry. Oh, when's Vincent? Yes, sir. Is that, run-together? Yes, sir. You got a first and middle name all in one? Yes, sir. All right, you got any family or friends? Yes, sir. I had two of them, my brother's in the military and my dad. Yikes. We need more coins and a bigger boat. We love him. You do love and support him. So, how are you, ma'am? Here we go. The mother. I got them for everybody. We never run out of coins. How are you, sir? You're going to have to help me out here. How are you, sir? I see it. I need one more. Okay. You're the dad. You're the mait, the patriarch. Excuse me. Nice to see it. So, you look like a brother? Yes. All right. Very nice. Of course. For the little girl? Okay. All right. And you have one? The kids don't have one. Okay. He's going to win, so we've got no time for that. Okay. You'll have to hold this as we gather up here and get a picture. Yeah, we've got the joint family here. All right. So, where are we from? Chicago. Everybody from Chicago? San Jose. San Jose? Very nice. My sister-in-law lives in Manteca, which is probably not that far. You too, San Jose? No. I'm from Fallbrook, actually. Fallbrook. Right around here. Okay. Okay. So, Chicago. Here. Yeah. San Jose. And, okay. Sounds good. Well, thanks for joining us here today. It's great to have you here. You have a great family. You're a lucky man. All right. Last and not least. Is it Gromit? Yes, sir. Okay. You have any family friends? They're my wife. All right. Here we go. Hello, miss. What's your name? Jamie. Jamie. Nice to see you. I need your coin, didn't I? Yes, sir. All right. Thank you, sir. My joke on probation is lame. It's getting lame. I'm not going to use it again. Thank you. Where are you from? Santa Fe, New Mexico, sir. It's yours. Oh, thank you. Santa Fe, New Mexico? Yes, sir. Are you from Santa Fe? San Diego. San Diego. So you met him here? Yes, sir. Yeah. I've used most of our time. So maybe I'll just defer that if you don't mind. All right. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, sir. How about a hand for our realisties? How about a hand for our realisties? Well, good morning, everybody. Good morning, everybody. Morning, sir. How's our San Diego day going? Hi. Hi, David. Hey, we are really pleased today to have the kitchen. Sino's here. Richard, the brother of Pennsylvania, met at Honolulu, the seven fleet forces command, our 30th chief of naval operations. The guy who's been putting war fighting first for four years. And I think we've all seen the fruits of all of his efforts. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to our 30th chief of naval operations, Abel John Greiner. Thanks, Tom. Abel John Greiner. Thank you. Thank you. So I think one point I would want to make, I use a lot of times I make it last, is how important families are and friends are and siblings are to be able to be a sailor. To be able to do the things we do, we can't do it without family. And they are the wind underneath any wings that we have and will fly only as high as they do. Your wife, your mother and father, all of that that goes in your children. So keep that in mind. And for those of you that aren't here with your family, you get the opportunity, please thank them for me, for allowing you to be a sailor in my navy and do the things you need to do. So I want to make just a few points. And most importantly, I want to listen and learn what you have to say. So I've got just a few graphics. Danny, if you could put the first one up to let you know. I showed this the first time I came in the job. It was five weeks out from the end of my position because it's not working. And not that that hadn't happened before. It's really what we are about is where we are located around the world day in, day out to make sure that we can be there to influence things and to get done what needs to get done. And then of course react and something goes wrong. And in the past, well certainly in the four years I've been here and based on where a lot of you have been, whether you were with the Vincent strike group recently or you're going to be with somebody that's going to go out in the not too distant future, it's because you were there with those units where it mattered and when it mattered that makes the navy what it is today. In other words, it's value to the country. That's okay Danny, I got to move on. So don't worry about it. You didn't want to see the picture anyway. It's something you already see in the paper. Number two, we are moving ahead with what we call the optimized fleet response training plan. Optimizing it, it's the same fleet response training plan we've been working with for a long time. What we're saying is simply this, if we want this thing to be the best it can be, if we want it to work through the hard times, the good times, we have to make sure that we've got the capacity to do the maintenance, that we man the ships and the aircraft squadrons well ahead of time so that you can go out and train properly, that we don't do training, that we don't clobber training and inspections, and that we make ourselves available when we're available, but we'd be clear with the, now it's my job, clear with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the secretary of defense, and the geographic combat commanders that we can't just be out there 10 months, 8 months, 9 months. That's not going to work. It's not going to work for the ships, it doesn't work for the process. It doesn't work for you, and it can't work for you. We can't work that way. And so, 7 months is where we need to be. Now, right now, Theodore Roosevelt is out there on an 8-month deployment, but the last two Fabious Ready groups have been on 7-month deployments. Truman will leave on a 7-month deployment, and I fully expect Stennis will do a 7-month deployment. As we go forward in the years out there, and as we go with Theodore Roosevelt out there, if she's out there and something goes wrong, we have to be where it matters, when it matters. We have to respond. She could get extended. I'm not saying she won't. But the next care strike group should be there on time, will be there on time, and the schedule for what we plan to do remains at 7 months. And then lastly, at just a point, you've seen changes that are starting to come around in the personnel and personal program system. You've seen, hopefully you've taken the time, and if you haven't, you really ought to go look and see what the Secretary of the Navy described at the Naval Academy a few months ago on changes to the personnel system. If you haven't done that, you ought to. It'll give you kind of a lay down, a better understanding of where we're going in the future. We need to revise our personnel system. You all are weapons, if you will. You're our best weapons system that we have out there. The system that manages you, if you will, the network that manages you is vastly outdated and we need to upgrade it, and that's the IT portion of it. But it's also the means in which we assign you. It's not responsive. It's too antiquated and we tell detailers, here, go use this battleship to take on a person and deal with the people today who are very high tech and a great weapon, the best missile we have in the whole battery, the best projectile we have in the whole battery, our system supporting you are antiquated. That's what we're doing. I think this is something I haven't seen in a long time from the perspective of the Secretary of Defense wants to do it, the Secretary of the Navy wants to do it. We want to do it. We've been trying to do this for a while and the Congress is receptive to doing it. So I think we'll be able to make some headway in this regard from a better career and admission program to a better way to do our boards, to a better way to do our assignments, to the ability to go active, to reserve back to active if that's the case, to be more responsive, have a better personal fitness assessment, and all of that. So more on this as we develop. Somebody doesn't want these coins, I don't think. So let me take questions now. Let's go to the things that you're interested in talking about and we'll deal with what you're interested in. Yes, Miss, you're ready to go. Good morning, sir. I know I love from Coastal Review Group 1 Training and Evaluation Unit. We've all heard status of maybe changing the dual BAH law or rules that we've had set in place. How is that going to affect military families, especially if they're trying to get into CDC, they have higher rates of the local economy? Is there any change from that yet? Well, we don't like this change and we've been very... I'll tell you how it all affected, it's not good. Because if you've made personal fiscal agreements with a whole host of things from your mortgage or whatever, and I say, hey, guess what? We're going to kind of take 35, 45, 60% of it away. I don't even know what it is. It depends on who's and where. That's not fair. And the President of the United States has said that I don't think it'll pass. And I'm not just sitting here and saying, hey, Greener doesn't think it'll pass. I'm checking. And so it won't be good if it passes. We don't think it's going to pass. We're dealing with it very deliberately, which means we're on it. To find out from the staff who wrote it, what were you trying to do? Their comeback is when BAH was first originated, it wasn't meant, it was meant to have one allowance for housing per family. And we say, okay, but that's not what you did. And so we are where we are. And we've been this way for years and years and years. Doing it like that is not the way to do it. There has to be, if a minimum, a period of adjustment so that our people can sort out their financial issues that this would cause. And it's totally contrary to all the other issues we've been trying to provide. The Congress has been trying. So we're fighting it pretty darn hard on this. So I don't think it's the right way to go. And my fellow chiefs feel the same way, the Secretary of Defense, everybody in the DOD. Okay, who's next? Morn, sir. I'm AZ3 Lopez from the USS Macon Island. Sir, I just have a quick question personally wise about junior enlisted sailors who hope to one day become commission officers. What would one piece of advice that you could give fellow sailors like myself just in hopes to become something greater? I'll tell you what. I'm going to tell you what the McPon tells everybody and he said in this auditorium and it applies, I tell my flag officers this, number one, work hard every day in whatever job you're given. If you're a food service attendant or if you're cleaning and you're doing whatever, you work hard every day and your bosses will see that you're a reliable person with integrity and worthwhile. Number two, stay out of trouble. You know, because if you've got trouble on your record, just say, well, what's this mean and what do we think this person will be like in the future? And then lastly, be a decent person. Be a good shipmate. Respect and have dignity and respect for others and you say, okay, that's nice. Give me all that cornball stuff and I'll tell me the real deal. That is the real deal. That will reflect on your record and you'll show yourself a person of great integrity. Now, if you say, well, what else can I do? You probably ought to start looking at, if you want to go to an officer program that requires, you know, college and all that, you've got to get into college. You have to have a good background. If you want to go seeming to Admiral, you know, SA-21, then you have to work on just exactly that. C or NC. Thank you, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning. It's seemingly reasonable to infer that Admiral Richardson's nomination to C&O relates to the push needed to allocate certain resources towards the Ohio class replacement. If this is true, which warfare areas would be the most measurably effective? Well, it's not true. So it makes it easy for him. Admiral Richardson was selected to be my... First of all, he's confirmed so, I mean, he's out right now writing all his vision statements and whatever he's going to do. He's ready to go. He was chosen by the Secretary of Defense to be one of the candidates. At least three. At least three. So it really has little nothing to do with the Ohio replacement. It's about the right person for the right time for our Navy and one program alone, which, by the way, you ever see little kids soccer ball games, right? And the ball goes over there and all the little kids run after it. We're not all running after the Ohio replacement. It is the number one program to realize our sea-based strategic deterrence. Very important. Number one. But it isn't everything. So that's not the way we did it. Yes, sir. I want to serve CTR-2, Sean Brigger from the USS Samson. My question is in regards to a potential future of threats with North Korea developing its news and continuing to develop its ballistic missile program. What's the Navy's concern of North Korea in pointing its news in an EMP-based weapon that may have high atmosphere for Japan to disable our forces and constructs of that? Well, that's a pretty complicated weapon, electromagnetic pulse. So you've got to launch it. It's got to be miniaturized enough. You've got to know you've got to be good enough to explode it in the atmosphere to get a pulse, right? Rather than having a thermonuclear explosion, which is both or bad, right? So I don't see that as a viable threat now. I want to talk about a decade. I guess that's feasible, but we would be all collectively remiss to sit around and just watch it evolve and develop and get there. So I will tell you this, it's in the classification of the room. I can't get into detail. There's a lot of work going on countering the potential launch development and all that for North Korea's nuclear weapons and others. Yes, sir. The next question is, how does the Navy plan on balancing the demand for future strategic assets like the Ohio Placement Project and current war fighting capabilities with a shrinking defense budget? Well, the budget may shrink and I don't know that it will shrink but it won't grow. We'll probably be fortunate to get what we have. And the Navy plan is to say we want to show you that would be the Congress ship building plan would look like if we took all of the money to pay for the Ohio out of the ship building plan. And they said, well, I don't want to do that. They said, well, aircraft plan, modernization plan. So we've showed many ways that how this will impact the other programs and they're not good. It's not pretty to say it's just the Navy one of the future. We need to have that debate. And that's what's going on now back in the Pentagon. This is the implication. This is the accountable result of this and the consequences. And we're having that discussion right now. So let me say that right now the Navy is we are prepared to do it because we're going to fund this thing. But number two, what most important I'd say is we don't want to do it and we don't think the DOD really wants to do that but it's in their best interest. And I think that's what we're trying to describe to them so we get a balanced approach to this. I should tell you Ohio, we're all sailors here so we think and talk about the Ohio. But right after the Ohio is the B-2 bomber and that process, that means modernized. It's time, it's decades old. And then right in around that time, the ICBMs out there, those processes and those networks, they need upgraded. Our missile and it's 20 years out so let me say 20 years it's right around the corner in some terms the missile needs to be upgraded, the booster and all that goes with it. So we have a national nuclear strategic nuclear modernization challenge over the next 20 years. It starts with the Ohio replacement. Okay? Thanks sir. Excuse me. Yes ma'am. Good morning sir. If we are prolonging pregnancy leave for females on C-duty, what are we doing in case the ship deploys? Well, what you're doing, you're talking about the leave, that's what's authorized. When it is taken would be up to the individual and that's your entitlement as an individual. How that is done is not written in there and that would have to be kind of case by case basis. But that's your entitlement of 18 total weeks and that's really the deal that we're describing or that's the deal that we're talking about. So I say that the entitlement as I said before that you have. You're welcome. Good morning sir. Good morning. I'm M.C.2 Jackson for men base. I'll be asking you the questions that come up online. So this is then out there on internet land, huh? This is correct sir. Okay, great. This one actually relates pretty closely to the questions that you just asked. This is from Sarah Turs from the private sector. No, not now but I don't know that that's even been discussed. I think that would have to be something that someone needs to bring forward and say well we had to discuss this as a probably a benefit more than anything. It sounds very medical in nature and then somebody has to subsidize that. So we need to look and see if that would be like I said an entitlement within the medical care. That would be DOD-wide obviously. Touching back on maternity leave with the increase in days for women to take maternity leave, will there also be an update for paternity leave coming out? Yeah, there might be and I'd say that because maternity leave is based upon the welfare of the mother and it's a very kind of if you will medical involved bodily recovery. Paternity leave has a different approach to it and it is actually government-wide. The underlying governing authority is the federal government. So that's a broader area. So that will take much longer to reconcile should they choose to do that. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. especially for the number of work centers that we have on board. Is there a budget out there to assist in helping the ships that are completely off of their ship into the barge? I think these barges upstate. Yeah, well, thanks for bringing that up. That's fair enough, because I was hoping to hear from the fleet on that from sailors. The Admiral Davidson, who commands Fleet Forces Command, when he brought forward the current budget proposal, came forward with what you said. Number one, he said, we need to recapitalize our barges. That means build more ones. Build new ones, excuse me. And number two, we need to refurbish the ones we have so that today, if we started building barges, the first barge would be ready in 18. So we need to revitalize those that we have. So we're going to address that in this budget. I can't tell you to what level, but yes, there is a budget line and it deals with barges, repair barges, living barges, support barges, all that stuff. And we need to address it. So let me just say the fleet, your fleet leadership is representing you in this. You're welcome. I want to start at page 21 on this USS Lake Champlain. My question is that our ship is not integrating female sailors on board. And we, as a crew, as an all-male crew, we're receiving training as far as how we should integrate the females on board the ship. Are the females that's coming in and they're like the first females on board the ship, getting some kind of adequate training as far as being the first females on board an all-male ship? So the Lake Champlain? Yes, sir. A cruiser? Yes, sir. Yeah. I don't know. Tell me, maybe you can help me. I thought we've had women on cruisers. No, officers. Okay. I don't know that the crew, you're saying we, the crew, the male crew are being trained, or indoctrinated. Does that sound right? Yes, sir. Okay. And your question is will the females that are coming on board be trained? Yes, sir. I don't know. I'm receiving an HR fresh out of A school coming in. Right. She has a million questions and stuff like that. Right. That's the male sailor. And she has women-specific questions. Yeah. I am not. Do you know? To answer those questions. Okay. So here's the deal. I have somebody that writes down all the questions and they don't know anybody's name. They just write down the questions. And let me go back and ask the chief and the old personnel what the plan is that. We'll work with Emma Rodden and your surfboard. Okay. Okay. Thanks. Good question. Yes, ma'am. Good morning, sir. I am on Swarley TVU, 32nd Street. I've got a question with regards to females and platform commands. Is there any other plans in place to, as we enlist more females into the Navy and expand our horizons, such as where we're able to be stationed? Is there any other plans? For example, I as an AO would like to go to an HSL cell platform, but I am limited because of the burden accommodations on the small platforms. So what plans, if any, do we have in place to try and get us to expand our service to broader commands? So you're not talking about just getting in. You're saying, yeah, I got that. We're already on board, but we're not on board in certain areas or function areas or skill sets, for lack of better terms. Is that summer? Yeah, let me take that one back too, because this I know the Bureau said and was told, just what you said, we are going to want to increase. The Naval Academy class that's in today has the largest female population, running over 25%. You know we want to expand and we need to bring more women in the Navy. So putting them two things, one more consistently on different platforms so that we don't have all male crews out here and in another one with sometimes 30%, 40%. And then of course we've got to get them in the different skill sets. I need to take that back, but that's a good question. All right. Sir, Lieutenant J.G. Marder, with the low reduction overall forces and potentially more fronts that we'll be fighting on, is there an increase in the IA program in the future? Yeah, your first one was of reduction in forces, as you said? Yes, sir. Yeah, well, I need to address that because your Navy, this Navy is growing. I don't know if you know that. We're about 325,000 today. We're going to be close to 330,000 by the end of the decade. We man equipment and our equipment is going up. So had we shown the slide I was going to show, it showed 273 ships and I think we have two more frigates that will retire. And now we're going to get little combat ships coming in at four a year and we're going to still have two submarines a year coming in. We're still building two destroyers a year, so your Navy will grow. But to your question, I guess really the worldwide missions that starts expanding particularly with ISIS in al-Qaeda and maybe our increased interest or employment perhaps in the Middle East, IAs. I'd say it would be on the margin. It would be specific skill sets, logistics, medical, some planners, cyber. But I don't see nothing like you saw before, say in the middle of the Iraqi campaign or the high point of the Afghanistan campaign. Okay. Yes, ma'am. Good morning, sir. Good morning. My question is specifically towards the LCS program. As you said, we are having more ships come out every year. And as being part of the staff having to support 1,500 plus PCUs, crews and jets, will there ever be an increase hopefully sometimes known as specifically as in L.S. with having more people supplied on staff to the LCS program? That's a lot of support. Tom. Sir, now this is a great question. Right now we have initiated a review of the support of the ships. Because I've been talking to Commodore Bowler and I know how hard you all are working just to take care of the ships that we have. And as we roll out for a year in the future, we're going to be able to support all the people that we have coming in to support the new ships as they come online. That's what we're going to do here in the future. One of the things that I've initiated is to go back and say, all right, let's take a look at this. Now that we've got some water under the keel, how do we need to modify the support in order to make sure that, hey, you're not overworked and more importantly, we properly take care of those ships as we prepare and then deploy them? It's like, I'll pass it on to my fellow LSS and I'm sure we'll be like, yes. Thank you. Hold them accountable. And that's all of us. Yeah, that's right. That's all of us in that regard. Okay, who's up? Over here. Good morning, sir. Good morning. The USS Hunter from USS Lake Champlain. I have a question in regards to the USS James E. Williams regarding the incidents that occurred last year when they were on deployment. My question is, the CO, EXO and CMC fails to resolve the command's issue, whether from big to small. What do you expect, or how should blue shirts, the chiefs and the officers, what should they do to intervene? Well, let's not use that as a ship. I understand. You gave me an example. So let's just take ship X and we'll talk about what I would expect. Is that good enough for you? Yes, sir. Okay, so first of all, you have to have integrity. Number one, you have to always tell the truth so that when you tell me something, you tell me this boat's ready to go, the small boat's ready to launch, I launch the small boat. And I know that you took care of all the checklist. Gun's ready to fire, missile's ready to launch, you get my point. Helo's ready to launch. I gotta believe you. And if there's a breakdown there, we've got huge trouble. If you have to check on what I say. So that's kind of one. If I know that you're always going to tell me the truth and it's going to be straightforward, then I can trust you. I can trust that my life will be in good hands, your hands, because we're all in each other's life. Hands, excuse me. So if we start trusting each other in an environment that I call an environment of dignity of respect, you just respect me and we treat each other with dignity, then you can start growing in that environment. So you say, yeah, but I got lousy leadership here. They're not getting it done. They're not dealing with the problems. Well, I expect the chief's quarters to confront the CMC and say, you're not getting it done. You are a representative. I would expect if the wardroom can't have a conversation with the executive officer and cannot have a conversation with the commanding officer, then they may need to go to that squadron and say, I got a problem on board. The squadron hears this, you know, the ISIC next senior in command. They should send people down and say, what's going on on this vessel and kind of get a sense for the culture. Am I making sense to you? So people need to step up because there are certain things you are owed. Your own integrity, your own trust, you are owed a culture, if you will, an environment of dignity and respect. And so also your own leadership. And my job is to put those leaders in there, make sure they are trained to do it, but not everybody will get that done and people will fail. And when that happens, the entire crew can't suffer because of an inability to deal with it. So yeah, I expect people to confront the issue. Once again, with dignity and respect and there are processes in place to do it. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. Well, again, sir, sends you two again. You answered most of the questions that we had online so far. There's only one more and I'm not going to ask it how it was phrased here because it's pretty incendiary. So I'm just going to ask what the basis of the question is. That is, what do you see the Navy's future as in regards to women joining the Navy SEALs? Well, yeah, the study is just about done that we asked Naval Special Warfare to do, which is to go determine, number one, what are your standards for people to join Naval Special Warfare, to be a SEAL. And review that and see, does this standard make sense? Is it a good standard? That has been done. And that was done with very competent authority, very objective look. I took the brief from Amalosi and so did the Secretary of the Navy. Number two, if that is a good standard, why isn't it a good enough standard for anybody? And as we go forward, we're not done yet. We haven't declared that we're done. But I see no reason to say, here are our standards. Who wants to be a SEAL? You got to meet the standard because these standards are foundationally put in place and proven in a whole host of missions and background, including not just SEALs and Naval Special Warfare, but special operating forces, DOD-wide. Why aren't they just the standard? Meet the standard? You're in. And frankly, that's the path that we are headed down. But we're not done yet. We have to integrate that into the broader special operating forces, if you see what I mean. And we have to check and say, does that conclusion affect the Army, Special Forces, Air Force, Special Forces, Marine Special Forces? And if so, we got to reconcile that. And that's where we are. Yes? Well, the paternity leave is the topic, really. And the answer is, we don't have the authority in the Navy to do that. It is a federal standard because it doesn't involve... See, women in the Navy versus women in other services, their ability, one's ability to recover and go back to work depends on the job they're in and what we're asking them to do. We go to sea. So if we think 18 months or 18 weeks is appropriate, then in order to fully recover for sea duty, and that's what we believe. But the paternity aspect of it is more deemed to be... It's not medically based, if you understand what I mean, in returning to work. So therefore, that's why it's federal-wide. So I'll go back and ask again. So what... Is there a plan in the federal government to take another look at this? Thank you, sir. Okay. Good morning, sir. Good morning. CSDU Alpha Way 201, U.S.S. Independence LCS II. And my question, sir, is... What do you expect to see the LCS program 10 years from now? 10 years from now. All right, let's see. 10 years from now. 2025. We should have all of that under construction by then, for sure. We'll be very close to... No, we will have this many frigates in the fleet by then. Yeah, on deployment. Frigates, that would be the last 20 that will have the systems on board. We talked about it, you know what I'm talking about, right? New missile, better electronic warfare and all that. So by then, we ought to have our small surface combatant type, ship type class, fully embedded, distributed. We'll have a squadron or two in Bahrain. We'll have at least four and maybe more, I think we'll have more, be my prediction, for lack of a better term, in the western Pacific, Sassebo and down in Singapore. And then, of course, on both coasts. And I think they'll be elsewhere around the world. I think other countries will have the C-frame. So you look out there and say, hey, look, it's an independence class. And they'll say, well, not exactly. It's been modified for that country. That's what I would foresee out there. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. Good morning, sir. Assuming Chief Aguero from HSM-49. Earlier, you spoke on personnel and the changes coming with CMS, IT, and all that stuff. I can tell you, my friend Nostra, that I am a big fan of the base detailing of thinking. My question in regards is, we speak to Manning and FRTP. Manning and FRTP, the numbers are set for any squadron deploying with a carrier battle group. However, that cookie cutter doesn't fit for an expeditionary combat. I'll give you an example. I currently run a division of PRs. And I am currently manned by SMITE8 as, well, you're not deploying as a standard deployment. So you get what you get. Is there a program in place? Are we looking at how we can keep more PRs? But I know that the lack of inventory is one of the issues to maybe boost. Okay. So your expeditionary, that would lead me to believe that you do deploy, or you say, no, I don't really. Yes, sir. We deploy more. Okay. So you have not, if not the FRTP, as we know and love and we talk about a lot, you have a process to prepare for deployment, right? Yes, sir. I would expect you're supposed to be manned at a certain level as you prepare to deploy and a level full-time because you could be called up. Yes, sir. And if you are not, if you're three of eight, is that the right number? Yes, sir. I don't know where that shows in our defense readiness reporting system, but if you are C or M4, then somebody ought to be saying that's a problem and so that's a problem for me. That feeds in. We know we don't have enough PRs in the Navy. If I have an accurate reporting system that comes up, then we're not fleet-wide. We don't have the right fit or fill fleet-wide. And we've got to break it down to individuals because I wouldn't want a small skill set to get lost in the macro numbers. I'd say report it, you know. Report your unit's true readiness level. Is the way the system will react? Okay. Manny is going to... Be increased if the deployment is scheduling? No, it shouldn't reflect. I mean, we will man our units in order to enable the units to function, I don't know how to say it, other than appropriately. And that's something we've learned. It's the school of hard knocks a little bit for us. We're standing hard and fast on that, rather than having a gaggle of people in the Navy and then we see how many can fit on the ships. We're very clear. We've done a lot of hard work and a lot of scar tissue to say, no, that won't work. That efficiency doesn't work anymore. If we need to find efficiencies, we've got to go find it somewhere. As I said before, and I was talking about changing how we manage people and all that. In this room, sitting in these seats is the most powerful weapon system we have. I'm not trying to be corny or dramatic. I've just seen it after a long, long time of ups and downs. And in the world we're in, in the future, we've talked about changing missions, asking people to do different things. We have to make sure that we are managing them well and they are well managed, you know, if that makes sense to you. Yes, sir. Bottom line. Okay. Hello. Hello, sir. Good. I'd like to take Cooper from the USS Princeton. I have a question regarding the ships. In particular, the cruisers. A lot of the cruisers are on the list for decommissioning. The cow pins is being hauled off. However, the Princeton is fortunate enough to have received the latest and greatest of technology. I was wondering if that would be a trend to continue or will we see an end of the cruisers in the near future? Well, I'll answer your question directly. You ain't going to see the end of the cruisers in the near future. Okay. But here was the plan. I know what you're saying. One person's modernization process is another person's mothball. Is another person's decommissioning. We have 22 cruisers, right? 11 of them are modernized. And that's good. We're going to get the other 11 modernized. And that's how we did that in the most cost effective manner. One, two. A manner to get them modernized as fast as feasible given the shipyards we have out here. Three, make sure that we manage the cruisers so they can last as long as feasible. So let me put it another way. If I have a cruiser that isn't modernized, so you're in the Princeton, it's modernized. It's pretty hot stuff, isn't it? Compared to what it was. There is no comparison, right? So if I steam your ship around unmodernized, I'm taking life from it. I'm using up life from it. If I can hold that ship, okay, and everybody else kind of hang on here, I'm going to hold the ship a little longer, then put it in for modernization. I get those years back. Just sitting still. If I preserve it properly while it's waiting to go get modernized. That was the process we were using. Congress said, I don't like that process. I don't want you tying up any ships for any period of time unless they're in the shipyard. I want them in the shipyard and out of the shipyard. So we've been going back and forth with them saying, easier said than done. I got this many shipyards. I got this many ships, if you will. You get my point. So we're into this debate with them. Does that make sense? We don't want to decommission any of these. We want to use them to be feasible. We don't want to get them modernized on a temple that makes sense. Okay? That's where we are. All right, are there any more? Does that mean he's last? He's it? Okay. Let me give you one last thought. I want to talk about cyber for just a minute. We are having a series of events in Washington. If you have a friend that works at a NIOC or anything, they're there for them. They are working hard. We are constantly under, if you will, cyber attack or probe right now. You all are. We all are. And you all are cyber warriors. You need to understand that. If you work on a combat system, if you work on a network, if you work on anything, when you go in and you sign in and you come up, you need to realize that, please. You have to pay attention to don't be plugging in and charging things up. I mean, that still happens today. If somebody says, hey, check this picture of my cat. It's on this link. It doesn't belong on Nippernet. It doesn't belong on Sippernet. And those things, those links that you get from somebody you may or may not recognize, even if you recognize it, that could contain malware. Today, when I say, I mean like crazy to extract and excoriate and throw out people who are delving into our networks, it's almost always happening because somebody let them in. Somebody just couldn't help themselves clicking on that link or actually work to click on the link to bypass some of the preventions that were in place. We really, really need to step up our cyber game as individuals as we continue to build a defense in depth to put the kind of programs in there to help throw these folks out, the hackers out. And they're nation state, they're definitely nation state, but they're also individual. So this is going to become a bigger and bigger issue. Your network, your station is a combat system. And any way that you let anybody in, please remember that. Take care of each other. It's been my pleasure serving with you. I will miss you all, but I'm moving on. And it's been a pleasure working with you. Somebody's going to come on and you will continue to make us the greatest Navy in the world. Thank you very much. So long.