 Currently, your Navy has a battle force of 286 ships and more than 300,000 active duty sailors. Hi, I'm a musician first class, Amanda Polycronus, and I'm the production's head here at the Navy Band in Washington, D.C. Right now, we're rehearsing our Navy birthday concert that's on October 14th. For this concert, we have many of our units on stage. It's a large gathering, it's almost the whole family. We tried to tell a visual story of the Navy as well. What's going on out in the fleet? What are we doing here? How are we all coming together? We have to have an entertaining show, but that entertaining show also has to be in line with what the CNO's message is. You know, right now, we have his three tenants, we're fighting first, operate forward, be ready. How do I represent musically that we're operating forward that we're ready? We're doing a tune right now called Across the Sea. That's every sailor that's been deployed has operated forward across the sea. I hear your voice call on the breeze On a ship out on the ocean On a ship out on the ocean On a ship out on the ocean And I'm excited to see the whole show go up on Sunday and hear all the music. Everybody sounds so great and has worked so hard. So it's the final push, we've got one more week and I believe that we're going to put on a dynamite show.