 Congressman's original Scott Forbes and Whitman, it's great to have the Hampton Roads support here today and it's wonderful to see all of you. Stinguished guests who have already been mentioned and especially Miss Donna Willard. Fellow flags, supporters from California and supporters of the California and most appropriately sailors of the California. You know in sports you always wonder how do you, who do you pick to build a team around and you look around and say they talk about the quarterback, the left fielder, the home run hitter, whatever it is. Well if you want to build a ship around a sponsor you got the right one and Donna Willard. If I were captain again Donna would be at the top of my list that's who I want to be my sponsor because you know what she's got a pretty good supporting cast for this endeavor. Why she's got a four-star Admiral who is her flag aide, flag secretary and not a bad executive assistant. We'll see how the pictures turn out before we say good photographer that is yet to be seen. I'm not sure if you met that mark. I said Donna you know Bob and Donna we've known him for a long time I said how how has your marriage lasted so long and she said the bottom line is Bob's trainable and I think that's that's carried us quite a bit. So Admiral Richardson took a lot of the words out of my mouth and that's a good thing because sometimes you just don't have a lot to say. A year ago about a year ago on the 6th of November I was the vice CNO then and I got up on the podium and said all right you guys Moharin we want this thing delivered on time and on budget we need the submarines I need to own the undersea domain that's what we're about. Well they did it and they did it obviously under budget and under time and that my hats off to you captain off my hats off to the crew so I didn't know I was going to be the CNO then and as I was thinking about what's important out there we've got some real fiscal challenges coming out but more importantly we have challenges around this world as our strategy kind of emerges from this land wars that we have to really what could very well be a maritime future out there and I said you know we got to think about war fighting first well that's what we're doing today we got to operate forward that's what we're talking about doing today and we've got to be ready that's what we're talking about happening today and we've got to own the undersea domain I wrote all this down little did I know I'd be standing here before you in a waning days of October having such a wonderful piece of American sovereignty that we can take out and get the job done and above all in the future we have got to be judicious with the resources that the taxpayers give to us that's what this symbol is today so not a bad day in all respects but I'm still wondering some of you may think is this a christening or commissioning and have they taken stealth to a whole new level where is this thing I know it's in here somewhere but she'll be deployable anywhere her sister ships have proven that today they are out there on the front line and nothing nothing out there surpasses their performance they are a technical marvel but what they're all about standing out here behind you the sailors who volunteer to serve I look forward to you guys excelling out there your actions reflect your proud heritage and your tradition I'm proud of you and I'm proud to serve with you as we go forward together in the terms that Admiral Richardson laid out for you thank you all for serving and I thank your families who support you and enable you to serve to do the job that you do it's my pleasure now to introduce Chairman Buck McKeon he's a native of California and this is an individual who knows innovation but yet he's very approachable he calls his website his online office he has a let's talk page he encourages interaction through E news letters text messages Facebook he twitters and he's big on the YouTube as well in short he's for the people and he's really connected to the people he's known for boundless energy I've seen a time and again he's a reformer and he enhances all of us in the work that he does he's improved teacher quality and accountability he knows where our seed corn is he's done higher education made higher education accessible to his constituency and affordable and as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee he is truly committed to those of us all of us that serve he's been strong on defense he's strong on servicemen and strong on service women and he said I will never jeopardize the safety of our men and women in uniform yet he too he does ensure that those of us charged with the use of taxpayers dollars are judicious with the use of the funds and lastly like many of us he married up when he married Patricia family with six kids and 35 grandchildren that is a family man so ladies and gentlemen please join me in a warm welcome here in Norfolk for this wonderful commissioning welcome chairman Buck McKinnon