 Good morning distinguished guests, soldiers, families and friends, welcome to the Army's home south of the Alps. Today Colonel Daniel J. Vogel will relinquish command of US Army Garrison Italy to Colonel Matthew J. Gomelach. The change of command ceremony is a long and honoured tradition in the military and is designed to recognise the transition of command from one leader to another. In today's ceremony, command sergeant Major Vetten will pass the organisational callers to the outgoing commander. In turn Colonel Vogel will pass the organisational callers to Mr. Meiss signifying that he is relinquishing command. Mr. Meiss will then pass the callers to Colonel Gomelach signifying the trust and confidence that the United States Army Installation Management Command and Income Europe has in Colonel Gomelach. This exchange also establishes that Colonel Gomelach is now the commander of US Army Garrison Italy. Colonel Gomelach will then pass the organisational callers back to Command Sergeant Major Vetten. The passing of the callers from the incoming commander to Command Sergeant Major signifies the confidence that the commander places in the non-commissioned officer's corps. By authority of Army Regulation 600-20, Paragraph 2-5, the undersigned Assume Command Assumes Command of the United States Army Garrison Italy, effective 16 July 2021. Signed Matthew J. Gomelach, Colonel US Army Commanding. Well good morning. Welcome to everyone joining us here today in a beautiful Vincenza. That's good to join you as we thank Colonel Dan Vogel for his service as a commander of this great Garrison and Amanda also for her service to the community and also to welcome Colonel Matt Gomelach to the Income Europe family and to command the United States Army Garrison Italy. But this ceremony also gives us the opportunity to do something else and that is to recognize the great folks that make up this Garrison that serves the communities of Vincenza and Darby so exceptionally well. Thank you all again for joining us today as we honor the Vogels and welcome the Gomelachs. Ready Garrisons for stronger sustained support and defend. Signore Signore, centile auspiti, con giorno e grazie a tutti per siri qui. A warm welcome to our Gold Star spouses and to distinguished assembly of Italian and US military and civilian leaders. Thank you all for joining us today is my family and I bid farewell and welcome my successor Colonel Matt Gomelach and his family. This command has been one of the most personally professionally rewarding experiences of my life and it's rewarding because I was able to able to experience with my wife and my family by my side and we've had a tremendous experience and I look forward to the next adventure so thank you Amanda, Caroline and Molly. My family will be forever grateful for the opportunity to live in such a wonderful place in a world to have met so many fantastic people to experience a wonderful culture and to make lifelong friends here in Italy. So enjoy the next two years. They will indeed go quickly. You and Kendra will do an incredible job leading and caring for our military communities here in Adarbee. Give them all that give them your all. I can assure you they will give you theirs. Thank you everyone. Grazie a tutti. Arrivederci. Perfetto Vicario Carletti. Vice-Syndical Celebron. Presidenti Ciambetti. Questori Messineo. Major General Mrs. Rowling. Mr. Meiss. Reader General Boris. Sergeant Major Petrie. Italian Civil and Military Authorities. Fellow Commanders. In command Sergeant Major. Members of the USAC Italy team. Soldiers, friends and families from the Vincenza and Darby military communities and all those who joined us on Facebook Live. Thanks for your attendance today. To the band and the Garrison Color Guard. You look excellent and I'm grateful for all that you did to prepare for the ceremony. Signore Signore. Buongiorno. Autorità Civil e Militari. Colleghi Commandanti. Suttoficiali di Corpo. Members of the Team USAC Italy. Amici e famiglie della comunità di Vincenza and Darby. I tutti gli ospiti collegati in streaming sulla pagina di Facebook della Guardione. Benvenuto e grazie per la vostra presenza. A tutti i Militari schierati, siete bellissimo e sono grati di tutto quello che avete fatto per prepararvi per questa ceremonia. Mi rivolgo alle autorità italiani, assindaci della comunità ducali, a militare di carrieri, alle forse del ordine, a di dipenti del guardio del guardione. Sono davoro in tutti gli asti di incontrarvi, di lavorare con voi, di imparare da voi e di godermi con voi questo magnifico Paesi. 20 anni nella forza speciale del Ersutro me hanno offerto molte opportunità per godere della geografia, delle persone, delle lingua e della cultura di molti luoghi, ma nessuno affascinanti e bello come Italia. Ami superiori, Major General Rowling, il direttore Maes, vi ringrazio per l'opportunità di fare parte di organizazioni così straordinarie, rivadisco il mio impegno per i doveri del comandante della Guardione e concludo con le parole di Abraham Lincoln, faccio il meglio che so e il meglio che posso e intendo continuare a farlo, finie alla fine. To Major General Rowling and CTAF AF team, to Mr. Maes and M.C.M.E., thanks for the opportunity to be a part of such remarkable organizations. To you and everyone present here, I'll summarize my remarks with the words of Abraham Lincoln. I'll summarize my commitment to the duties of Garrison Commander and conclude these remarks with the words of Abraham Lincoln. I pledge to do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. Thank you.