 Hello everyone. My name is Staff Sergeant Martia Timiny. I am the Sixth Marine Corps District Musician Technical Assistant. I represent one out of over 800 Marines located across the southeast region of this country. On behalf of Sixth Marine Corps District, as well as the Marine Music Program, we are proud to be sponsors for the ramp experience this year. During the past two years, Marine musicians all over this country, as well as overseas, have been able to provide support directly to their music programs in their communities. Such types of support have also included virtual webinars, master classes, private lessons, or other sorts of specified media materials needed for those educators at both the high school and middle school levels. Another type of support provided to our local communities can be through our dermal acquisition. What that means for you as an educator is if you would like access to instruments that have been procured by the Marine Corps, all you would need to do is reach out to your local musician technical assistant or one of your local Marine Corps bands in order to acquire that inventory. My fellow Marine musician technical assistants and I have been able to provide and produce webinars as needed for educators within our regions. These webinars can consist of anything that the educators would like to focus on to include instrument specific master classes, one-on-one instruction with some of your students, full concert band critiques, solo and ensemble adjudication, audition advice, or specified discussions covering over career options within the Marine Corps, how to become a Marine musician, or for advice for those who are going on to collegiate level programs. When it comes to the beginning of our musician careers, we all start off on the same path, usually with beginning band in either fifth or sixth grade. Across that time, some of us are afforded the opportunities to take private instruction or attend certain master classes, camps, clinics as needed. As you continue your schooling across the years, once you get to your senior year of high school, you are faced with that first juncture to continue on to college or continue a professional path. For those younger applicants who would like to begin their music careers straight out of high school, you can audition, qualify and earn a position within the Marine Music Program. As you are a Marine musician, you are still afforded many education opportunities for you to either begin, continue or complete your collegiate level education. A majority of our Marine musicians have enlisted after completing at least a bachelor's degree and some of them even have some professional level experience to include performing with other professional music groups or by teaching. As a Marine musician, we perform anywhere from 350 to 450 performances each year. Those performances include ensembles such as the wind ensemble, ceremonial marching band, brass quintet, New Orleans style brass band, jazz combo, big band, woodwind quintet or any other various ensembles needed to accomplish a specific mission. We also engage with a lot of community relations and recruiting efforts in order to continue serving those communities that we live in. With our participation in the Ramp Experience, the Marines of both 6 Marine Court District as well as the Marine Music Program hope to provide additional resources to all the music educators located across the state of Mississippi. Through the vehicle of music education and music performance, it is the goal that all of our students recognize their own potential and their capabilities to become leaders in their communities and hopefully even leaders within the United States Marine Corps. We hope to continue this partnership for years to come with the Ramp Experience, the music educators and influencers all across the state of Mississippi as well as 6 Marine Court District. Again, my name is Staff Sergeant Martia Temani and thank you all for your time. Semper Fidelis.