 What a great morning. How cool is this? Let me just stop and say how cool is this? To be able to take a moment and recognize this. I remember the first part of the month for me in a scheduling meeting with our flight scheduler, so I was like, hey, we're not doing an AAPI flight. I don't know what happened after that, but here we are today. Also, I'll tell you, I think it's because we have some pretty talented lieutenants and airmen who just grabbed the bull by the horns with initiative and just wanted to to make this happen and put it all together. And I hope that's what you guys know. You have a wing that supports you and wants to recognize your rich heritage. I know we have Jeff Nakayama and Major Albano, Lieutenant Wolfe, and Santos, Seaman Freire, and Kim Ramirez were the names that were given to me, but I'm sure more came together to put this all to make this flight happen. And I thank you all for doing this. If you look at the history of the AAPI, the Asian American Pacific Islanders, there was a congressional resolution that was passed back in 1978 on May 4th, which is the date that coincided with the first Japanese immigrants to the United States. They asked for the president's assignment to declare a week from the 4th of the 11th to be Asian American Pacific Islander week. Later on in 1999, in May of 1999, they extended that to celebrate the month. And every year, the president has provided a proclamation for Asian American Pacific Islander month. And if you look at that, this month, the president, Biden calls out his vice president, Kamala Harris, as the vice president to recognize Asian Pacific Islanders. Anyway, I hope that signifies for you that that's where we are as a nation. This isn't about anything beyond talent and opportunity, and our country and our nation and our wing here provides that for you to support you. You bring with you a rich culture, rich heritage, and a diversity of thought that I think brings us together and strengthens us as the world's most dominant air force to create air power competition for our enemies that helps us to maintain leverage against them. And that diversity of thought and the rich culture and heritage that you provide also brings a unique dynamic within our wing to make us a well-balanced people group collectively. And while that's great, I think this flight is even greater, and I'm excited to see all the faces young, and I won't say older. And, you know, I made the joke earlier. There's nothing more significant and more rewarding and more symbolic than being able to have Olympia and Starbucks in the same morning. Somebody offered the chance for me to go fly with you. I wish you had said that yesterday, Jessica. I won't do it today because Nicole will kill me if I have to redo my entire schedule and she has to clean it up tomorrow. But I do thank you for what you do. I do thank you for who you are, specifically for the culture and the heritage that you bring. I hope you're proud of that and know that that is the strength of who we are as a nation and as an air force. So I just wanted to say that. Awesome. Great words. Let me just add on like a couple quick things real quick. So thanks to the team for putting this together. I think this is truly phenomenal. I met with them last week. I had the easy part, which is really just to say yes to take a good briefing and see what you're all doing. So I think this is a fantastic example of our air force. You know, we have a, you know, there's many cultures right in America in our air force and our wing, but we really have one voice when it comes to diversity to think about it, right? And so many cultures, one voice. We ought to be celebrating diversity and that's what this is today, right? This is not anything other than American air power, having a sorority of all Asian American Pacific Islanders because we want to and because we can, right? And I think that says a lot in and of itself. So go out there today, have some fun, celebrate your culture as part of the larger melting project is the United States Air Force and I look forward to hearing how it went when you all get back. Awesome. Thanks. My name is Erica Santos and I am a Lieutenant for the 964th ACS Phoenix. Well, the significance of this flight is to acknowledge the diversity of the air force since 1947. We can see an improvement until now of the growth of all the minorities in our air force, specifically with the Asian American Pacific Islanders. This is our first time ever having a flight with an entire crew, being Asian American Pacific Islanders. So this is, you can see the growth of what's been happening and diversity. Sorry. Okay, cool. You know what I was trying to say though, right? Yes, please. How to say it without repeating myself. The significance of this flight is to acknowledge the growth that the air force has grown into. Before then, there was the lack of minorities, the lack of Asian American representation and now we're able to fill an entire flight full of Asian American Pacific Islanders, acknowledging the diversity of the air force. For the 960th Airborne Air Control Swatting. The significance of this flight is to demonstrate and show that the 552 ACW has a very diverse Asian American Pacific Islander group and we're here today to show that we can get the mission done. Yep, so the training story, the purpose of it is to make sure that our members get the proper training and make sure that we're mission capable of being able to go at any moment at any time and as well as America. So diversity is nothing new to me. What I've learned over the years is that it doesn't matter exactly what your color, your skin is or your cultural background. In the end, we're all American and we're here to serve our country. As that said, as much as I'm proud to be American, there's nothing wrong with embracing your cultural heritage. Be proud of who you are. Now smoking on the bus or the flight line, we shouldn't need reflective belts, but if it's planning a flight deckers on this jet, we'll maximize clearing by reducing our workload with autopilot. We'll be using the weather radar T-casts and our visual fundamentals of every ship we've got the plan. We've proofed the plan.