 Welcome. MC2 Burleson here with the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Mic Pond Mike Stevens, to discuss this year's CPO 365, Phase 2, the E-Sailor Initiative, and to find out what sales are that are asking in the fleet. Mic Pond, thanks for being here. Good. Mr. Burleson, thanks for having me. Great. Now, it is Chief Season, and now it's on to Phase 2 for the CPO Selectees. What is your expectation for this phase of CPO 365? My expectations are what they've been for the last three years and what we've done all year, and that is to provide professional leadership training and development while treating one another with dignity and respect. And I'd really like to thank my Chiefs Mess and all of our first class Petty Officers for the great work that you've done throughout the last few years, and I look forward to seeing those anchors on those callers of our new Chief Selectees on the 16th of September. Good job. Awesome. Great. Now, the E-Sailor Initiative was launched in Great Lakes where for the first time, sailors were allowed to use tablets for training and to learn. What's the latest news coming out of Great Lakes about that? Well, the E-Sailor Initiative is about getting mobile technology in the hands of our sailors to make them more mission-ready, to enhance their learning capabilities. So we believe that starting at RTC Great Lakes was the right place to really get our hands and our minds around this new initiative, and then we hope to move that on to our A-Schools, our C-Schools, and one day out into the fleet, and for our commands that are already out there outside of RTC that have embraced E-Sailor and are using it as part of their learning program, I just want to say thank you for being a vanguard in that area, and I look forward to seeing what mobile technology brings to the Navy in the future. Right. Now, Mick Pawn recently got back from travel where I'm sure you had the opportunity to talk with a lot of sailors about the recent policy changes and pain and compensation. Now, are there any questions that sailors are asking about that in the fleet? Yeah, my wife, Teresa, who is one of our Navy's ombudsmen, is at large, myself, obviously, and Mick Pawn's team, a couple other folks in the office. We made a 25,000-mile trip to the Far East. We were able to go to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Guam, and Hawaii, and then we returned home, and in each location we did three all-hands calls, two with our sailors and one all-hands call in the evening with spouses and ombudsmen. Many of them had questions about pay and compensation. Mostly they were curious and just wanted to know how it would affect them and their families. We took the time to explain it and to break it down. What they're really interested about is the new retirement proposal, because it's not actually in place right now, where this gives sailors and their families options and choices. So it's a thrift savings, but it's comparable to a 401k-like system where the Navy will match a contribution that the sailor puts in, and then over time that investment will grow and then eventually they'll be able to withdraw from that investment. That's the short of it. There's much more to it. So please keep your eyes and ears open and pay attention and read as much as you can on it, because for the sailors that have not joined the Navy just yet, it will certainly impact them when this occurs. And for some of our sailors that are in the Navy, depending on the time frame that you've served, it has a strong possibility of impacting you, or should I say, providing you with an opportunity to participate in this new retirement plan. So we'll see what they roll out in the near future, and I look forward to seeing it. That's great. Now, the NAV admin just dropped detailing the big changes to the PFA policy, and they were pretty big. And it seems to focus more on year-round fitness for sailors. Are you getting any questions from sailors in the fleet about the recent changes? We're getting some questions, much like paying compensation, more curiosity. How does this impact or affect me? And what I'd like to share with our sailors out there is that this is really about total sailor fitness year-round. We want to make sure that you're fit and ready all the time, because we never, never know when we're going to need to do something that's going to require us to be at our peak physical performance. But this is also about a healthy mind, and this is also about mission readiness for the Navy. It's certainly not about lowering standards. This is really about finding what the right standards are and applying them across the fleet, and having a healthy Navy 365 days a year, rather than two times a year, if you know what I mean. Right. Makes sense. Great. Well, thank you for being here, McPon, and answering all the questions. Good. Mr. Burleson is an honor. Thank you very much. Thank you. On our meeting. Thanks. Be sure to check out this week's rundown, where we will discuss the latest news from the Chief of Naval Personnel Office coming to the fleet.