 All you can pop it up and then fall in all the way. Good morning, good morning. Yeah. Start. Pull it. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of the commanding general and secondary logistics group, welcome to the release and appointment ceremony where Sergeant Major William J. Walton will then push his post to Sergeant Major Wesley O. Turner, the secondary. Today's parade is being executed by the Marines and sailors of Second Marine Logistics Group. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the invocation by the man chaplain, Lieutenant Mark C. McBrane, chaplain for the United States Navy. Let us pray. Almighty God and eternal Father, it is right and it is fitting that we would pause at the beginning of this great occasion to acknowledge your presence in our midst and to ask that your blessing will rest on all that occurs here today. We know that every good gift is the product that you're richly given grace and is therefore worthy of our deepest gratitude. So for the beautiful weather we are enjoying today, for the treasured privilege of serving our nation in uniform, for the priceless legacy secured by brave Marines throughout our nation's history, for the faithful leadership you continue to provide to the Marines and sailors of the Second MLG, for these and so many more blessings we give you thanks. Today, we ask that this exchange of office and authority and accountability be a reflection of your will. Sergeant Major Gwaltney takes leave of his office through this time-honored ceremony. Give him joy in the fulfillment of duty and satisfaction in leadership well thought. Assure him of the promise of an enduring and accomplished legacy. Sergeant Major Turner assumes this legacy and accepts the sword of office. Give him ready recall of lessons learned prior assignments and a keen awareness of the responsibilities outboard for the men and women of this group and their families. Inspire him and empower him to lead the MLG to new heights of excellence. For both of these men, we ask that you would bless the families and friends who support them with the priceless gifts of love and understanding. You would grant each of them grace and wisdom equal to every human. Help each of us gather here to appreciate the wisdom inherent in this ceremony, creating within us as it does a sense of continuity and strength in its change. Keep us faithful in our duties, make us worthy examples for those who follow. These things we ask of you, oh God, the source of all courage, the fount of all wisdom, and the object of all hope. Amen. Thank you. Please be seated. Present day parades in the Marine Corps have their basis in both history and tradition. The mass formation of troops on the main possible amassing of firepower from muzzle-loaded mussels of yesterday. In those early days, the line of battle was just that. A line of two or three ranks and the collection of great formation that you will see today. Please rise for the march on of the colors and remain standing for the playing of the National Anthem. Encentar! Two, Sergeant Major William J. Boulton. Before May 2023, you stand relieved of your duties as Sergeant Major Second Marine Logistics Group. You'll proceed and report to the Inspector General of the Marine Corps for duty as Sergeant Major Office of the Inspector General of the Marine Corps. Signed David H. Berger, General United States Marine Corps of the Marine Corps. Two, Sergeant Major Leslie O. Turner II. Subject, appointment. Effective 0901, 24 May 2023. You are appointed the duties of Sergeant Major Second Marine Logistics Group. Signed David H. Berger, General United States Marine Corps Commandant of the Marine Corps. Good job, pretty, Mrs. Pretty. Sergeant Majors, Command Master Chiefs, Master County Sergeant's Commanders, family, friends, Marine Sailors, and Second MLG, welcome to this awesome ceremony this morning, where we say goodbye to one and welcome another. Before I continue on, I just want to make a couple of thank yous first. I want to say thanks to the Second Marine that has abandoned me. I tell you, you guys look awesome, you sound awesome, and there is no ceremony that is worth its weight without you being part of it. So thank you. If I could get a round of applause for that. I'd also like to say thanks to Sergeant Major Fay and your team for putting this on. And I'd like to say thanks to all the Marines and Sailors of Second MLG and the 8,000 that you represent. You look awesome this morning and everything looked great. And we are all proud to serve alongside you. So as we want to talk about, it's an honor for me to actually talk about Sergeant Major Gautney and welcome Sergeant Major Turner. Since Sergeant Major Gautney's been here the last two years, Second MLG's been pretty busy. You've got to go back two years and think. Through that time, we were doing vaccinations across the country. We did allies welcome, operation allies welcome. We did a try and juncture in Norway. We've done multiple DFTs and GFM requirements. I think we've done 15 SLTs. We've planned and are in the middle of execution, in the middle of executing force design transition for this MLG. And I tell you all that, not to go on and on and on on the things that are going on in Second MLG. I tell you all that, Sergeant Major Gautney's been in the middle of all that. He's been in the middle of all the things that have been happening in Second MLG over the last two years. Providing advice and counsel first to General Poole and then to me, to all the commanders and Sergeant's majors in this organization, to the leaders of TwoMeth. He's been knee deep in this MLG. And I will tell you, we benefit from that counsel and advice and his expertise and his impact is going to be felt for years to come as we transition. I'd also like to highlight his commitment to NCOPME in particular, our corporal scores and our corporal PM, corporals PME. So when he first got here, he took a look at our corporal scores curriculum and made some changes to that. And then recently, over the last several months, he's taken another whack at kind of improving our NCOPME in particular, in this case, corporal scores. Refining the curriculum and then we've expanded corporal scores. So we will have one corporal scores in Second MLG where all corporals in this MLG will go through. So we have a common experience, a common education, and then we get to cross pollinate across all of our different MLSs and all the different commands. That's been a heavy lift. It's taken some additional people to expand it. We've had to do some facility stuff. And I tell you, the work he's done for that, he's going to leave before this comes to fruition, but I will tell you the impacts that he will have on young marines and sailors, because we send sailors to that too here in MLG. The young marines and sailors will be felt for years and years to come. And it's very impressive to watch how much time he's spent on this and how much time he spends with our corporals every single course. We've expanded the course, et cetera. So I just want to highlight to that. His impact in this organization, operationally, structurally, and from a development perspective, are going to be felt for many, many, many years to come. Hey, Command Master Chief and I are blessed to have him as a battle buddy. To have him as a battle buddy over the last, for me, 11 months, for Master Chief Beck for the last almost two years or so. We've had an opportunity to travel the world, to see our marines and sailors train, to visit other countries' militaries and talk to them and talk discussions, deep discussions, bring them back and implement changes to make sure we're better trained and making sure we're doing things a little bit better here. But he's been a wonderful battle buddy. Look, I will tell you, he's also one that we were able to make jokes of occasionally. And we were probably first to make jokes of him, so Chris and I didn't get to make fun of him. But I don't want to make fun of him in front of everybody for his coffee selections. But I do, if I could tell just a small story, right? So he's a big guy, right? He's in good shape. He's an intimidating guy. So if you're a young marine and you see the Sergeant Major coming, like, you're intimidated. You're like, that's what I want to be someday until he walks out of the coffee shop with a coffee that looks like it's milk and it's got like six inches of whipped cream. And he's really proud of the foofood coffee that he drinks by the way. Okay, not the same impression of the little, we kind of, anyway, we don't make fun of him that ever, most of every day. And then, you know, we've had opportunities to travel the world, right? And you think, look, you travel the world and you get to eat good food, especially when you're in foreign countries, right? You want to eat some different food. And man, he just, he likes his hamburgers and his pizza and he really tries to get any additional food. He's not, he's here. And then hours and cars and airplanes, I will tell you that Command Master Chief Beck and I have got to hear every single flat earth and other conspiracy story that you can imagine. What I would recommend to you all is do not ask him about that. Because he will pin you down and spend hours telling you how the world is flat and multiple other conspiracy stories. So just a warning. Hey, Honols, seriously though, the guy has never met, he's never met someone that he didn't like, wasn't a friend. What I mean by that is everywhere he goes, he'll strike up a conversation with anybody. Marine, sailor, civilian. And immediately, they're friends. And he cares about people. He asks them detailed questions, and really cares about everybody that he goes and meets. And it's a really impressive quality. He's just down the earth guy that really cares and respects for all men and women. And you can see that every day when you just spend a lot of time with him. Hey, Sir Major say, I did tell him that the meth order says that outgoing commanders and senior enlisted get five to seven minutes to speak. I don't know if after 11 months if he's gonna start listening to me today, but I just want you to know that I did tell him that's what the order says. Mary, for you and your boys, thanks so much. Thanks for all you do for your husband, for your dad. Thanks for your commitment to our Marines and sailors and their families. And we're certainly gonna miss you. Thanks for being a great battle buddy. Thanks for all you've done for Second MLG, for 2MF. And I can tell you, we're all gonna miss you. So thank you very much. So Ray Scherner for Heather, welcome. It's great to have you here. So welcome to Second MLG. You have a great reputation. The Marines and sailors are certainly fortunate that you're gonna step in and start to take the lead here. I wanna thank your whole family. At this time in your life, you have other choices. And you chose to stay, you chose to continue to serve as a family, to lead and continue to grind. And that says so much about you and you, Heather and your kids. And I just wanna say thank you for that. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for being here this morning. To honor the Marines and sailors of Second MLG, to honor Sergeant Major Galtney and Sergeant Major Turner, Summer Fidellis. Thank you very much. Okay, Juan, I'm gonna clarify. It's a Carmel Mocha and Prapachino double blended with whipped cream, very important. And then of course they busted me during the seasonal, I had to get the pumpkin spice latte. So yes, I do love my Fufu coffee drinks. You're right, pizza, hamburgers, that's true. But don't forget the fish and chips. I do like some fish and chips and not to mention in Norway the 7-Eleven hot dogs. I know me and Chris really, we wouldn't hesitate to pull over to make sure we get our nice 7-Eleven hot dogs if we don't have 7-Elevens here in North Carolina. Sir, I'll try to make the five minutes. My wife just said, just don't go up there and yell at me. Every time you're on there, you look mean and you're yelling, so I'm gonna try not to do that. So once again, thank you, general officers, commanders, signal-listed leaders, Marines, sailors, family, friends. Once again, thank you for coming out here. CG listed all some accomplishments, sir. I like to say what I did is just try to set conditions and I think it's important as leaders, we set conditions for our Marines to excel, right? And I think that's what our Marines did here over the past two years in the MLG. You mentioned it, sir, the first year, our Marines didn't take a knee for COVID. They're out there still deploying around the globe, providing vaccination efforts in Memphis and Philadelphia, over hundreds of thousands of vaccines given to the public. Operation Allies Welcome, standing that up out of nowhere right there in Quantico, Virginia, providing Afghan refugees a pathway in the United States over 5,000 plus Colonel Mills and obviously General Pull out there running that evolution, just amazing. And then if you look now, once they get crisis response, we're here getting ready to deploy to the border to deal with the migrant surge. So Marines of the MLG are constantly out there getting after it. From operation side, sir, once we got out of COVID, these Marines embraced the force design and experimentation. Our CLB's out there in Norway, Finland and Sweden getting after providing distributed logistics within the Latorals, right there in one of our adversary's backyards. It is amazing to see them out there. But once again, as we set conditions here in the MLG, I'm gonna say thank you, one, to the MEP staff. During our non-sir, you and your team, that's exactly what you did to us, providing us leadership, vision and priorities that allow us to kind of get after what we get after. And then personally from our command deck, we thank you, Sergeant Major Travis, Command Master Chief Urbana, where you at? Command Master Chief Urbana, Sergeant Major Dave Wilson, once again, we appreciate your leadership and then your mentorship. So once again, thank you, sir. The MLG motto is, you'll never fight alone. I actually like warrior sustaining warriors better, but the new one is, you'll never fight alone. So my counterparts in division, the MEP, the mall, once again, I appreciate every time we go around and we travel as we provide debts to your organizations you don't look at them, your teams never look at them as attachments. They look at them as family and they treat them as such and I appreciate that. But I do have one request and that's to General Benedict, sir, if you can borrow me a couple of maintainers, we have a C-130, I think we're past the ones at P.M. So, sir, if you could help us out with that, it would, we would appreciate it. Just so you know, I had to get permission to say that, Jim. No, to our, oh, I think I'm going to check, check. My five minutes is up already. I'll get to these quick, to our community support. Lieutenant Colonel retired, Mr. Brown said, once again, I'm sorry, Dave, he's mad if I use his last name, Dave. Appreciate all the support, the Swansboro Military Affairs Committee, recognizing our Marines on a quarterly basis or we, once again, we appreciate it. Me and the general, once again, recognizing us. We thank you. To the civilians, the civilian workforce here in the MLG, thank you. Once again, the job you do frees up Marines and sailors to not only get after war fighting, but then also get consumed by the MF staff as a task force. So, there's my little jab there for you guys. To the commanders and senior enlisted leaders, once again, set in conditions at your organization to where you challenge Marines and get after that mission is awesome to watch. And then once again, shows the effort you guys have put forward when you look at our record retention rates here in the MLG. We haven't seen retention rates like this in decades, and that's the work that you guys have been putting in on a daily basis, and I thank you. To my battle buddies, I'm going to include, obviously, our liberal risk Colonel Mills associated with our battle buddies here. No better team. Like I say, we're a fire team as we move around the battle space. I'm going to miss it. It's definitely a highlight of my career. I don't know if Sergeant Major Turner is going to be able to give you all the Facebook facts that I come with. It's not to mention challenging the norm, so I don't know how he's going to make up for that. But no, I'm going to miss it, and I look forward to not only seeing you guys in the future, once again, congratulations to Command Master Chief Beck, who's going to go here in the next year, take over Command Master Chief Urbana. Once again, I appreciate it. And then special call out to my senior enlisted. Sergeant Major Fay, your team out here for the relief and appointment ceremony in all of you. I'm telling you right now, there's no team. I'll put you up against anybody, and I know we'll come out on top. Thank you for everything you've done for me while we're here. To the family friends, thank you for showing up today. I know our family and the support... Damn, I'm over again. The support you give our family, once again, I appreciate it. And to my immediate family, just so you know, it's my wife's birthday today. Yeah, that sounds good. Until she looks at you and goes, really, you scheduled this on my birthday? So once again, baby, happy birthday to my boys. I'm proud of you. Yes, you're going to go to school immediately after this. So, no, you're not going to get out of it. And lastly, Sergeant Major Turner, I know you said the same thing I did. I know I was talking to you before the slating board where you're like, hey, dog, I just want to come and replace you at Second MLG. I'm like, damn, my position isn't even on the board. And he wanted to come and replace me. So I know you thought the same thing with Sergeant Major Black called you. You were like, hey, there's no better place and I think you picked the right spot. These Marines will continue to amaze you and challenge you. So I know you're the right guy for the job and I look forward to seeing you where you go. Everyone knows now being a part of the IG office, you know, the next time I come down here, people are going to go great. Two things. One, I'm going to talk to them a lot. And two, I have to be here for an inspection team. So I look forward to watching you guys from afar. Good luck, Sergeant Major Turner. And it's all yours, brother. So whatever time that he used, I'm about to make up for it right now. Where's Sergeant Major Travis? Oh, yeah, he already told me, hey, you ain't done nothing, get in, save the guys, and get out. So here we go. Good morning, General Officers, commanders, senior enlisted, Marines, sailors, family and friends. Hey, thank you very much for making the trip, for those who made the trip as far away as Parris Island, South Carolina. All right, brother. It's an honor, it's an honor to be here. It's an honor to be here. General McWilliam, sir, I look forward to getting after it day one. We can go today, and just getting out there and showing the Marines and sailors, you know, good leadership, and that we're going to be ready to go. Excuse me. Marines on the MLG. And I look forward to learning from you, and I also look forward to working with you as we take on the challenges that we have in our future, and that we get ready to do the debating of the United States. For my wife, family, all those great people that I have in the Turner household. It's not really Turner household by name only, it's her household. But anyway, here we go. Last one, I didn't have to pack them up. I didn't have to like, hey, you know, the sandwich talk for those that know that the sandwich talk, they crap sandwich. I'm keeping my language in the box here. But the crap sandwich talk that we know as service members, we sometimes have to have with our family. I was honored and blessed to get this assignment, and I'm very excited to be here. One thing I'd like to offer, you know, I really appreciate, my family really appreciates all of you taking the opportunity to come here time out of your day. I'm sure you've had a million other things that you could be doing right now, but you chose to be here with us, and we greatly appreciate that. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for those. Flowers are now being delivered to Sergeant Major Walter's wife, Mary, and in lieu of flowers, a donation is being made to the March of Nives Foundation Hi, Sergeant Major.