 Battles aren't won, solely on the field. That's a common misconception. Battles are won within, over enemies of fear, enemies of doubt, in that place where promises are kept. Promises to oneself, promises to one's community, promises to one's country. Of every Marine, you'll find a promise. A promise forever kept. A promise of Battles won. The battle to keep our nation and its people safe has changed. Our world has become more dangerous and more unpredictable. And those who seek to cause harm and destruction take that opportunity all too often. But America has a powerful response. America has its Marines. A naval expeditionary force in readiness. Extremely adaptable and agile, prepared to operate inside contested maritime spaces, built to win our nation's battles and create order from chaos anytime, anywhere. The Fleet Marine Force is forward deployed and forward postured, deterring potential adversaries and safeguarding key maritime terrain. We are first on the scene, first to help, first to contain a brewing crisis. And if required to do so, first to fight. We work and fight in partnership with the Navy, which makes us instantly mobile, amphibious and lethal. And our self-sustained forces are able to keep peace, bring aid or take the fight anywhere on the planet, for as long as it takes to buy time, create decision space or enable our larger joint forces. We are flexible, scalable and we practice warfare that outmaneuvers adversaries and exploits vulnerabilities. But a force like this is about more than mobility or equipment. It's about Marines, recruiting and retaining the very best defines who we are. We seek selfless young men and women of character and virtue and challenge them to earn our title. Marines themselves are the greatest weapons in our arsenal, each polished and capable, battle tested, determined to win. You must do 100% of yourself to all times. Steeped in our core values of honor, courage and commitment. Marines bring moral, physical and intellectual strength to every situation. And when their time and uniform is done, they use those qualities to continue to serve their communities. But before Marines can ever fight our battles, they learn to work together to overcome doubt, fear and weakness and become capable of making smart and decisive combat decisions. It's a special skill honed across more than 240 years of defending this nation. And it's made the Marine Fighting Spirit legendary. Strategic environments are changing, characterized by evolving technologies and a fight for accurate information. It's a chaotic environment that calls for a next generation approach. As the world's premier naval expeditionary fighting force, we operate across air, land, sea and cyberspace. Embracing information environment operations and integrating as part of the combined joint force, Marines bring unmatched combined arms capability from the great battles of the past. And to those ahead that will surely test our nation, the Marines exist now and have always existed for a singular purpose, to fight and to win. And as our world becomes more complex, we'll continue to build a fighting force that can counter every threat to our country. This is your Marine Corps. These are your Marines. I am Captain Lorenzo J. Ireland and I am with the Marine Corps Cyber Warfare Group. So today we're at the everything you are event. It's a great event that I feel is very important. It leverages two critical aspects of people and technology and where both of those are fused together. So I think where it's important for the Marine Corps in terms of the partnership is, one, we get to engage young talent. They also get paired up with experienced individuals and personnel that are in the military. Two, it's very important with leveraging technology what this is partly about and then people, as I mentioned earlier, fusing those together and bringing that type of talent into the Marine Corps as we continue to fight our way in the 21st century. Searching for meaning in a relentless world, always connected but somehow alone, trapped by illusion where the battle to belong begins, awakened by a calling, by purpose, by the cause you fight for. We're gonna get over the obstacle. No one can ever take away what it means to be among the few, the proud. I'm Staff Sergeant Patterson from Lubbock, Texas. I'm the officer selection assistant out there. What the Marine Corps is doing here is bringing awareness to the National Society of Black Engineers, just giving them an opportunity to see what we do and to kind of understand what we do. The Marine Corps is all about leadership, not only providing that leadership tool, but developing leaders. My name is Captain James Butters. I'm currently the officer selection officer for an AMR mission. I believe the Marine Corps brings the same type of skills that we're looking for, that NSB is also looking for, that we bring to the house and saying, hey, we have a joint partner in this fight to make sure that you recruit and retain the best talent possible. I believe that these partnerships are just gonna get bigger. I believe with the Marine Corps and the NSB partnership we both have the same shared values, so that hopefully we'll do more of these events in the future, maybe even Marine Corps-specific, where we're trying to talk to NSB like, hey, we love the community that you guys have built, we'd like to be more involved in it and hopefully have more of these Marine Corps-specific NSB showing partnerships. For every generation, it has started with the call to serve. Discovering the purpose and the belonging earned with the title. Learning to dig deep and push through adversity together. Defending our nation and its people. It is a life of great worth and reward, but Marines are never really finished serving. Their commitment comes full circle, visible in communities across our country. This is Semper Fidelis, always faithful, always Marine. Marking a path for the next generation.