 I'm General Jim McConville, and I'm very honored and humbled to be the 40th Chief of Staff of the Army. Well, you know, growing up, my dad was an enlisted sailor in the Navy during the Korean War, and then he worked 49 and a half years at the Gearworks, the Boston Gearworks making gears, is what they did. And, you know, he inspired me to serve because he, you know, I was always amazed that a man who I had tremendous respect for, that tremendous character, loved his time serving in the Navy. And to this day, he's 89 years old, he still tells me those stories with passion, and the fact that he got a chance to take advantage of the GI Bill and go to college while he was raising five kids over seven years really had a huge impact on his life, so that had a huge impact on my life. You know, every day I wake up and I see these incredible soldiers that are serving around the world. And I know, having three kids that serve in the military, that their parents have sent their most important possession to the United States Army, and they expect us. In fact, they demand that we take care of them, that we treat them with dignity and respect. And we do everything we can to make sure that they grow in the Army. So every single day I wake up knowing that some parents have trusted me with their sons and daughters and I need to take care of them. When people talk about modernization, a lot just think it's new equipment. It's certainly part of that, but more importantly, it's a new concept on the way we're going to fight for great power competition. That is multi-domain operations. It's the sixth modernization priorities are the equipment that we're going to fight with. And it's a 21st century talent management system that's going to put the right soldier and the right job at the right time so we can win on the battlefield. People are the Army. They're our most important weapon system. They're our most important asset and we need to take care of people. And so for our soldiers, we want to make sure that they have the best training, the best equipment, the best leadership, and they have the opportunity to really grow and advance in the Army. For department Army civilians, we've got to manage their talent. They are the institutional backbone of everything we do. And for the families, we've got to provide quality of life for them. We've got to make sure they have good housing. We've got to make sure they have good health care. Child care. The spouses have an opportunity for employment and we've got to take care of the PCS moving challenges we have right now. We have some work to do in that area. And if we provide a good quality of life for our families, they will stay with their soldiers. Winning matters. We send the United States Army somewhere. We don't go to participate. We don't go to try hard. We go to win. And that is extremely important because there's no second place that our honor will mention in combat.