 You come here on day one, you're going to be given leadership opportunity and you're going to be given qualification opportunity, and you're going to get a chance to drive one of the coolest ships out there, you know, the military jet ski with a flight deck and a gun. You know, who doesn't want to drive that around? For me, one of the most rewarding things about being on board an LCS ship is that I think this is what we all at some point joined the Navy to do. When I joined the Navy, I didn't expect to be an officer who would sit around and drink coffee and oversee evolutions. I imagine I would be leading them and in charge of them and participating in them, and it's not really until LCS that I've been able to experience that. It's especially challenging to do new things in a service that's as steep in tradition as the Navy is. I think that LCS is where the future of the Navy is headed, between more automation or maybe plug-and-play missions and empowering one sailor to do more than one job. I really think that we're headed in a new, cool direction that can do a lot for the Navy and this country. Obviously, the LCS program is built on the foundation of mission packages, so being able to be flexible to one of three different areas that they're currently building, whether it be surface mission package to go out and fight counter piracy ops or small boat swarms to the anti-submarine package to the anti-mine package. Obviously, depending on what a theater commander wants from his LCS, they'll put that package on board and we'll go fight that fight. Everything we have is containerized. It means the boats, the guns, and all of our support equipment arrives in containers and modules that can be craned off, craned on. Relatively easy. It's not hardwired into the ship systems. It's all plug-and-play. Obviously, when you come up into the bridge, the layout of the bridge, like I said, is very Star Trek-ish. You have a place for your homes when you have a place for your Odeon and the captain's chair behind it, so definitely different from anything else you'll see on the fleet. With our propulsion plant, we provide power to four water jets, which is a new form of propulsion for Navy warship. Our water jets are so powerful that when we're operating at full power, we can fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in a matter of seconds with how much water we're pushing through. We all own this thing together. We're all stakeholders in LCS. 220 rounds a minute, a capacity of 120 rounds. Each round contains 2,400 tons of pellets. Each round can be programmed in, I believe, eight different ways, so instead of having different rounds for different types of fire, the gun programs the round as it leaves. So as soon as you fire, you're programming every round, so you can have every round be a different type. When we are transiting at low speeds, we can use our diesel engines and get a little bit better fuel economy. If our mission changes and we need to get some place quickly, we can kick on our gas turbines and run all four engines at a low speed with over 40 knots. We've all served in various locations and duty stations in the past of what we term as the legacy Navy, so this is a different environment where we all come wearing three, four, five different hats with many different functions, cloud road duties, responsibilities, on board the ship. It's a pretty demanding job. You're constantly going in charge of a lot of things with very few people to compensate. I am an air traffic controller. I control the helicopters on board. I'm an ASTAC, which is an anti-submarine tactical air controller. So every time we have an organic or non-organic asset come, we will be the ones that are in control of that aircraft. I also do global command and control maritime, which is an overarching current operating picture of what's going on in the fleet. And I also do what's called multi-tattle or track data coordination, which is just a situational awareness tool for us and other units that are around us to have some battle space expansion. The automation and technology that the Navy is pushing forward through this they've basically taken that same watch team to get a ship underway, normal underway steaming. Basically four people gave it a good job. LCS is a whole new animal. This is a fantastic ship. The Navy is getting a bargain in what we have here. The most exciting thing in my opinion is the ability to do rapid technology insertion with the latest things. I think it's very exciting. This is the way the Navy is going. This is long-term the future of the Navy. We're basically working on the doctrine, the tactics, techniques and procedures that are going to be the foundation for what will be the second-largest class of ship, the LCS, when we finish the build-up. I think the fleet should be real excited about what we're doing here. So it's really big. I'm making history.