 I came into the Marine Corps for four years. That's all I was going to do. I was going to do four years and get out. And before you know it, you wake up and you've been in the Marine Corps a long time. A lot of young Marines asked me, hey, when did you decide to make it a career? And my answer is, hey, I'm still kind of thinking about it. I mean, I never woke up one day and said, I'm going to be a career Marine. Everyone comes into the Marine Corps for different reasons. But there are some things that unite us. What keeps us tied together is a sense of purpose, a sense of mission, and a belief that we can all be better than our individual selves when you're part of a great team. I am very, very grateful for the opportunity to command the 30,000 Marines and sailors of 3MF. It's an amazing theater of 26 partner nations. I think what I'm most proud of is that I go to sleep at night knowing that if the bell rings, we're ready. They're well rehearsed. They're well trained. They're well led. The fundamental reason that connects all of us is it's the people. It's the men and women you're around. It's the Marines and sailors that you're around on a daily basis. And I think that's a very powerful statement about who we are as a community. I feel incredibly grateful to have been afforded the opportunity to have been a Marine for 39 years and being the organization that I'm in with young men and women like the ones surrounding me today.