 Good morning, shipmates. This is Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Juan Garcia. 11 years into the longest sustained combat operations in American history. And with the new national defense strategy recently rolled out by the president and the secretary of defense, that by any analysis is based on the sea services and focuses on the Navy Marine Corps. There's very little reason to believe that the relentless operational tempo that you and your families have operated under for the last decade is going to let up any time soon. That's why earlier this year, right here in the hangar bay of the USS Baton, the secretary of the Navy, CNO, the command on the Marine Corps, McPon, and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps gathered to roll out a new initiative we're calling 21st Century Sailor and Marine. Now, it wasn't by accident that they chose the Baton. The Baton and its crew had recently returned from one of the longest deployments in recent decades. They knew this is a ship that was strained and that had asked a lot of their crew and their families. 21st Century Sailor and Marine is a set of initiatives that brings together those programs in existence, those in development, some new ones, brings them together under one overarching rubric designed to ensure that you and your families have the tools you need to succeed and excel in the coming decade, knowing, again, that the operational tempo you've known for the last decade is very unlikely to let up any time soon. Five key focus areas under 21st Century, safety, readiness, physical fitness, inclusion, and continuum of service. But the two I'd really like to focus on for today's event are physical fitness and safety. Now, the Navy's physical fitness story is a good one. All the trends are going in the right direction. The PFA is a very, very serious process that's taken seriously year-round. No longer do folks spool up for it just twice a year. It's a lifestyle. And sailors know that the consequences of three failures in four years will have a meaningful impact on their career. Now, when I first showed up for my first fleet command out at the old NAS Barber's Point, I'll never forget the squadron had their first, or had my first PFA. And when we did the mile-and-a-half run, the command master chief lapped everyone, finished a full half mile ahead of the rest of the command. And he did the whole thing while smoking a cigarette. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen at the time. I said, I want to be like that guy. Well, two decades down the road, we know so much more about how to take care of ourselves. We understand fitness in a much more sophisticated way. And at a time we know that we simply can't afford man-days laws for illness, for sickness, or for injury, we want to zero in on that. That's why at every command in the Navy, your CFL, your command fitness leader, will be trained on a program we call NOFS, Navy Operational Fuel and Fitnessing Standards. It's designed so that your CFL is trained and has the gear and the equipment they need to help you maintain your A game every day, whether you're on a destroyer, some of which are losing their gyms, or a submarine where there may be two treadmills for an entire crew to use, or you're in an expeditionary setting somewhere where there's not access to a traditional gym. Your CFL will provide you with the tools you need, the exercises you need, the gear you need to keep yourself fit every day. Now, by the end of this calendar year, in every chow hall, mess hall, galley, wardrobe in the Navy, and the Marine Corps, at every meal three times a day, there'll be at least one entree taken from the USDA's most healthy list, and one side dish taken from the USDA's most healthy list. No one's gonna tell Sailor and Marine they've gotta eat their broccoli or their spinach, your grownups, but at the same time, you're gonna be trained on how to keep yourself fit, and you're gonna have the best options available. Now, what you do every day professionally is dangerous enough. We don't wanna lose Sailors and Marines in their off time to injuries or God forbid, worse. Great example of this is the Motorcycle Safety Program. All the trends are going in the right direction. The requirement to take the beginner rider course is reaping real benefits, but there's still some holes to close. Last year we lost 12 Sailors in motorcycle mishaps, and in nine of those cases, the Sailor had had the intro course, but had never gotten around to either the sport bike course or the expert rider course. We're gonna close that loophole, because the last thing we wanna do is lose Sailors in their off time, or God forbid, worse. 21st Century Sailor Marine. I urge you to Google it, find out about it, ensuring that you and your families are taking advantage of the program's design to ensure you will succeed and excel in the coming decade, despite what prompts us to be a very challenging operational tempo. I'd like to thank the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center for their support of this program, and congratulate them on this campaign. It's gonna make a difference in the lives of our Sailors and Marines and their families, and it's gonna keep us ready to execute the nation's business. Thanks for your work. Be safe shipmates, and we'll see you in the fleet.