 The main area is Major Evan J. Fairfield, commanding officer, Recruiting Station Frederick. Major Collins is now delivering the colors to the commanding officer. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the transferring of the colors. From Collin on the Marine Corps to Major Evan J. Fairfield, effective 1025 June 2021, you stand relieved of your duties as commanding officer, Recruiting Station Frederick and are directed to report to Debt 1 Technical Services Company, Reston, Virginia. Signed, David H. Berger, General, Commandant of the Marine Corps. Commandant of the Marine Corps, to Major Daniel P. Chamberlain, effective 1001, 25 June 2021, you are directed to report to the commanding officer for the Recruiting District for duty as the commanding officer. Recruiting Station Frederick for the Recruiting District Eastern Recruiting Region. Signed, David H. Berger, General, Commandant of the Marine Corps. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Meritory Service Medal with Gold Star and Louis II Award to Major Evan J. Fairfield, United States Marine Corps, for service as sent forth in the following citation. For outstanding, Meritory's achievement while serving as a commanding officer, Recruiting Station Frederick, for the Recruiting District from June 2019 to June 2021. During this period, Major Recurve the United States Naval Service. For the President, Julie Nethercott, Brigadier General, U.S. Marine Corps, Commanding General, U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Depot, Paris Island, Eastern Recruiting Region. For all they invested in their excess and the families of the Recruiting Station. We wish you and Tijel fair winds and following seas. Sincerely, Julie El Nethercott, Brigadier General, U.S. Marine Corps, Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruiting Depot, Eastern Recruiting Region, Paris Island, South Carolina. Willing to sit there and do the four hours of TC's because they needed help or out there grabbing a pile of business cards to help them AC to get the contacts that they needed so that they could embark on this and most important mission. So, leadership by the example, through not only you, through your SART major, through your R.I., it just exudes throughout the whole command and your support from Marines on this most important mission. For your part of excellence and that full mentality that you possess that I know you got to big shoes to fill I'm confident and so are all these Marines behind you that you have a great team that you are stepping into, you know, that sets it from the EXO, the SART major, the R.I. and all the Marines across this that they're going to continue to strive and maintain that excellence. Evans, you know, this command has accomplished quite a few things that you've heard. But, you know, as I thought through it, really, you know, everything that just the Colonel read off and the citation, it belongs to all of the Marines and the recruiters sitting in the back of this room here. I don't know any of that. I have learned more from you that I'm sure that you've learned from me walking out here, whether it's sitting down with me in the back when I'm on my first station visits and I'm there to train him as my first year CO. He's actually trained in me showing me how to find things with the Marines who are going out to a second year recruiter who teaches me how to awkwardly talk to people in Walmart at nine o'clock at night that you're all successful. For my peers sitting here and those that can't be, I appreciate everything you've all done too. The group chat gets pretty spicy sometimes so he's a good deal that's sounding more kind of like a lesson solution for every complex problem that's been going on for the past couple of years. And then, last but not least, to see you all sitting there and all attending you more or less, but Station Commanders, you are the... To the fellow RSCOs, thank you for the initial guidance and the input you gave me over the last few days. It's been a very warm welcome. I appreciate the advice that you've given me and I'm looking forward to working with each and every one of you over the next year or so. Sergeant Major, into the command team here at Fightin' Frederick, thank you for all that you've done for me over the last year or so. I found out in August last year I was going to come here and you all just started to reach out between UMassar and McNeugh. I really do appreciate the time you put in with two of me and helping me out along the way. Evan, since August of last year we've had at least 20 different Zoom conferences and you've spent at least two to three weeks cumulatively with me. I just want to thank you and Tejal for opening up your household to me and Jess. I didn't just have a brother-in-arms, but I've got friends and family for life here. So thank you for that very much. Thank you again to the Marines in the Color Guard and to the working party that's been out here for the last few days. You put a lot of time in. We've got Marines up here for Clark. So they're going to class and then they were coming out here to actually set this up and get this done. So thank you again.