 Ron thank you so much and I'm happy to be here surface Navy Association on your 25th anniversary of your symposium I'll say a couple of things about that introduction. One is I was in the Navy so long ago. I wasn't as well We didn't have designators at that point aviators had wings submarine or said dolphins Surface Navy basically had black shoes Which I was pretty proud of And Gordon Nagler was my captain and like a lot of you who served as J.O.'s with a Captain I I kept in touch with him all his life And Was very close to to him When I was sworn in as governor he came he came to the inaugural and an surprising reporter Found him and said well. Did you see this? potential in him when he was a junior officer on your ship and Admiral Nagler said Well, I always thought he would amount to something. I just was pretty sure it wasn't going to be in the Navy So I'm really sorry he's not here I Want to thank y'all members of this association for all you have done and continue to do to demonstrate the Diplomacy in the might of our nation through our surface Navy You hear a lot about how complex the Navy is about how big it is about what? Organizational challenge it is let me give you a few few numbers If the Department of the Navy was a private company It would be the second largest in the world by employees It would be the third largest in the world by assets And it would be the fifth largest in the world by budget or revenue authority It is truly a global complex complicated and incredibly vital and necessary part of America and of our national defense Now one of the reasons I gave you that those numbers is Those huge companies that the Navy keeps company with As as large entities and complex organizations All of them operate from time to time with a degree of fiscal uncertainty but nothing approaches the unknowns that Department of Navy and Department of Defense Faces today you've got a Couple of things one that gets a lot of the attention and a lot of the conversation is sequestration as it should It was delayed for two months, but it's still out there still Hanging over us That would be a four point six billion dollar hit for the Department of the Navy Should sequestration happen and it would be a four point six billion dollar hit five months into the year So you'd have seven months to To carry it out of equal concern though and it gets Much less attention is the continuing resolution. We are operating under the FY 12 budget Under a continuing resolution That expires at the end of March If that is continued if that continuing resolution is extended For the rest of the fiscal year That's another Exactly the same number four point six billion dollar hit to the Navy and the the issue Beside the the size Is the mindless way both of those things operate Sequestration you just lack a certain percentage off of virtually every program Continuing resolution says you stay at the levels you were last year and no new starts So Both of these things pose big risk for the Department of the Navy and Nobody likes budget cuts but if defense or Navy has to be a part of Some going forward Grand bargain or strategy or deal then Give us the top line Let us manage How any cuts how any reductions are made Let us put dollars against strategy instead of simply cutting the top line and one of those things that I Think is incredibly important and I'm going to talk about some is Making sure we maintain our shipbuilding Programs that we have going Making sure that we can meet the new defense strategy That the president laid out a year ago this month We have shown I believe pretty decisively so That we know how to manage the budget That we know how to set some priorities that we know how to get money In the programs that we know how to drive a hard bargain that we know how to get the most money for the taxpayers dollar Instead of mindlessly cutting Give us that chance to manage To whatever the final number is but not do it in a simply automatic way across programs across Across the department We've taken some actions. It's got a lot of attention about Trying to Today slow the burn rate slow the rate that we're spending money so that should Either are both of these occur. We won't have to make all the Reductions in the very compressed period of time that we would have to We're trying to make those as reversible as possible trying to make sure that Whatever we do today if the issues are solved if a budget is passed if Sequestration is not triggered that we have not done irreparable something irreparable To a program or to the entire department but these fiscal challenges are serious these fiscal challenges Have to be addressed in some way but If regardless of what the physical challenges are let's make sure that we Put the money that is allocated for the Navy and for defense Into some priorities and not just slice programs As I said fairly mindlessly The way that these two issues would do today So I started off this talk on a fairly down note But in the In the sense of you remember the old joke other than that Mrs. Lincoln. How was the play? Absent these budget things that are hanging over us The Navy and Marine Corps Are in good shape We will we are and we will continue to be regardless of what happens. We will continue to be The finest and most formidable expeditionary fighting force the world has ever known and I Think it's because of some of the actions we have taken some of the actions that we have taken in various fields and in this city of Acronyms and abbreviations and I work in a building and a lot of you do full of acronyms and abbreviations I've come up with one for sort of organizing how The Navy the Department of the Navy has approached issues that we have and it's the four Ps people platforms power and partnerships and These are all interrelated You've got to have enough platforms of the right type But you've also got to have enough people with the right training to run them If we don't have the energy mix right the power right We may have to park we pull some of these ships leave next to the pier you have to ground some of our aircraft We've got to have that that right and To build the partnerships that we need to do that are an integral part of the new defense strategy We have to have enough gray holes on the horizon To go and build these partnerships Now This new strategy Requires that each one of these Be done. Well It's a maritime strategy focusing on the western Pacific the Arabian Gulf and On building partnerships around the world using innovative low-cost small footprint methods That's a definition of the United States Navy and Marine Corps So let me take you through those four very quickly top priority of mine and of the Navy's Continues to be our people take care of the sailors and Marines Continue to be the best by taking care of the best now. I don't have to convince people in this room how skilled how talented How dedicated the people that make up the United States Navy and Marine Corps are the level of Dedication is simply astounding very different Navy from the one that You and I started out in I served with some amazingly good people Very dedicated very skilled. We couldn't touch the force we have today With the level of talent and unlike any other military in the world and unlike most other organizations We push responsibility down we push it down in terms of rank we push it down in terms of age It's pretty astonishing the responsibility that we expect from our youngest sailors Our most junior Marines and we do it day in and day out and we get the type of response that we anticipate But in the last more than a decade now, we've been involved in two wars We've had an incredibly high operational tempo and it's put a lot of stress on this force and on the families of this force and So we need to worry about the health of the force and you see a lot of and again, rightfully so you see a lot of discussion about Things like sexual assault Suicide about things like the sacrifices families are making about the readiness of the force about how physically fit they are and One of the things that we did was when we looked at these issues We found that we had some pretty good programs Going we're beginning to find some answers on things like how to prevent sexual assault But we also found that they were pretty stove-piped that One program didn't talk to the other and so we put them all together In something called 21st century sailor and marine that I announced last spring And what this tries to do is bring every Program designed for sailors marines or their families in one place and There's a website 21st century sailor and marine That is obviously getting some attention because of the number of hits that it's getting but While we were trying to put together a one-stop place for Sailors and their families to go to We began to learn some things for example in nearly all case of suicide sexual assault domestic violence There was one common denominator and that was alcohol Nearly every time And so now we're we're doing some programs on alcohol We're doing education try to de glamorize some of the Uses of alcohol, but we're also For duty stations coming on we're doing breath-wizers And They're non punitive But if you pop positive seven or eight hours after the Superbowl when you show up to work at Seven o'clock in the morning You do that a couple of times We're gonna get you into something to help you because What you don't want is a career altering or career ending or life altering or life ending incident What you're trying to do is keep the force healthy. What you're trying to do is keep the force fit and These things go all the way from suicide prevention to What sailors eat how we How we do a culture of fitness instead of just getting ready for the PFT on The wellness in every possible way of the force For the military To best serve our nation It also has got to be reflective of the nation that we serve and we are Doing a lot in terms of diversity and inclusion And we're moving toward ending the final barriers where women may serve including on my watch and submarines we want to connect with Different kinds of places to get officers so we have Brought back after 40 years In our OTC at Harvard at Yale at Columbia We've added it at Rutgers and Arizona State nobody Should be denied the honor of defending this country and that's one of the things we're trying to reach out and do And when men and women leave the military whether it's after four years or 40 I think we've got a big obligation to help make that sometimes not easy transition in the civilian world to work on things like employment and particularly for our wounded warriors One of the things we're doing in Navy out of all the things we're doing in these transition programs is we're hiring wounded warriors directly into Navy They have a lot of skills that we need We had a goal last year of hiring at least one wounded warrior a day for a year We triple that We hired a thousand wounded warriors into Navy and That's a good deal for everybody because they do bring Amazing resilience and amazing skills Second P is platforms and I know that y'all have heard a lot about this and I know that you're going to hear some more The under is going to talk about it in in when he talks to you later on today and I think we have made Some pretty remarkable strides in shipbuilding in 2001 on 9 11 2001 the United States Navy had 216 ships in the battle fleet We had 277,000 sailors 377,000 sailors by 2008 during one of the great military build-ups in American history United States Navy was at 278 ships And we had gone down by 49,000 sailors in 2008 we built three ships That's nowhere close to enough Offset retirements when I came in in 2009 a Lot of our shipbuilding programs We're in this is a technical term a mess ships were being designed while they were being built there was Requirements got out of control Cost on too many got out of control And I'll give you a couple of examples when I came in the LCS The two variants we had one in the water from each variant and one being built We bid out three more the About a month after I got there The bids came in unsustainably high. We just couldn't afford We needed the ship, but we couldn't afford it So while we wanted both variants while they each brought something unique They both met the core missions So I made the decision to pull back the RFP to Put it back out and say okay We're gonna do we're gonna pick one variant and you're gonna compete against each other based mainly on price and The winner will get ten ships over five years the winner will also have to give us a technical package so that we bid it out to a second yard to keep competition going and The second yard will get nine ships over that same five years So over the course of the next year during the negotiations The prices came down by around 40% and I still don't know who won. I Purposely didn't want to know But When it was clear that the cost had come down so far and when it was also clear that Both shipyards are willing to sign firm fixed price contracts block buys. I went back to Congress and Said can we buy both versions again got approval even though it was Going back and asking for that permission Went against a lot of advice That just one go happen But we were allowed to do that So we got 20 ships 10 from each vendor Instead of 19 and we saved 2.9 billion dollars on the program and the 10th ship that's being built of that class Will be substantially cheaper Than the first of those 10 ships in that five-year period. There's a learning curve on DDG 51 which the line was restarted because one of the things that Tom Coatman head of surface warfare said yeah that said day before yesterday We need to build the halls. We know how to build When it got restarted We've got is all of y'all know two shipyards that build them bath in Maine Pascagoula in Mississippi and you want more than one shipyard building every type of ship possible, but There wasn't really a competition going on There was more of an allocation Bath you get one past Gully you get one So we bit out three ships and we said bath you're gonna get one of those ships and Pascagoula You're gonna get one of those ships, but the low bid gets the third ship and Oh, by the way the difference between the low bid and the high bid Comes out of the high bidder's fee. We got those three DDG 51s and saved almost 300 million dollars From the original estimate. We're trying to be good stewards of the taxpayers money We're trying to work with industry industry has the right to Make a fair return on these ships and we owe industry some things Again barring from Tom Cove. We owe industry a stable design and That's where we are we owe industry Mature technology and that's where we are If we get something new and G whiz it's just gonna have to go on the next block and third We owe industry some transparency How many ships we're gonna build what types of ships that we're gonna build and I think we've done that in return Industry owes us some stuff if they've got that transparency industry owes us Making the investments in the workforce training and in infrastructure So that there will be a learning curve as we build these ships Industry owes us Every type every ship of the same type without major design changes out of cost less than the one that went before so today 2008 we built three ships today. We have 42 ships under contract 42 Most of virtually all of firm fixed-price contracts a lot. I'm under multi years and the DDG 51 program That program office was selected for the 2012 David Packard excellence in acquisition award Because of some of the things That were happy that were happening. There are still some issues Some of them historic but We're working on every one of them and I think that given the number of ships we've got under contract and given the fact that We've gone now to a fleet of 288 ships today and we will be at 300 and Beyond before the end of the decade and If you look at our 30-year shipbuilding plan out to the future Will sustain those? those numbers that We're getting the ships that we need. We're getting the right mix that we need. We're getting the numbers that we need because Quantity at some point begins to have a quality all its own I'm proud of where we are on shipbuilding the third of these four power Talks about As Ron said The energy goals that I said I Set those in the fall of 2009 the biggest one said that by No later than 2020 at least half of all naval energy both float and ashore would come from non fossil fuel sources And we did it to make us better war fighters. We did it to Reduce a military vulnerability We did it to make sure that we can fulfill our military missions We're doing it not only through moving toward alternative energy, but also through some efficiencies And I can give you example after example after example on the ground in Afghanistan During some of the heaviest fighting there and sangin Marines reduced their power consumption overall By 25% India company third battalion fifth Marines Lighten their load just by using solar chargers solar blankets You could roll up stick in your pack a company drop 700 pounds of batteries By doing that not only did they not have to hump that 700 pounds. They didn't have to be resupplied Which also cut down on the risk less fuel ultimate means fewer convoys fewer Marines put at risk We had seal teams just coming out of the field now They tested things to make them net zero in energy and water so they don't have to be resupplied at all They can stay in the field Which makes them far better in terms of time on mission in terms of Independence of action and movement US military is the largest single consumer of fossil fuels in the world and Every time the price of Barrel of oil goes up a dollar Every time it costs the Navy 30 million dollars in additional fuel costs Now If you want to put that into some surface terms, that's a hundred and forty-two steaming days for all our LHDs 293 days for our distinct for steaming and combat ops of an Arleigh Burke destroyer, so if You know even if we could get all the Oil and gas we needed inside the US It is still the ultimate global commodity Price is set globally Some hard-liner threatens to close the straights for moves and the price is gonna spike When Libya happened a couple of years ago price went up $40 a barrel almost overnight. That's a billion dollar bill Doss In FY 12 alone toward the end of the year we were presented in Navy a five hundred million dollar additional fuel cost bill and it was simply because a year and a half earlier when the budget was put in nobody could estimate Accurately what the price was going to be well now in 12 We were able to solve that thanks to some help from Secretary of Defense's office by using some OCO funds OCO is not going to be there are not in these numbers and not available for this kind of use Forever if I get presented on behalf of the Navy with another 500 million dollar or greater bill There are really only two places to go for it One is operations and maintenance and again barring from Tom Coatman We don't need to steam less fly less train less The other place if the bill gets too big is to begin to cut platforms. I Don't want to do either one of those things and I don't think we have to We've got a more stable source of energy Being produced inside the US That we can budget for and plan for and that doesn't respond to some of these international crisis We are better war fighters We demonstrated last summer at RIMPAC the Great Green Fleet Carrier strike group carry obviously was nuclear But every type of aircraft that flew off that carrier flew on a mix of avgas and biofuels every single surface ship steamed on a mixture of Regular fuel and biofuels and The big news out of that the big news Nothing happened. We bought this these biofuels Put them in the normal logistics chain Put them on an Euler which may be misnamed now In Hawaii And send them out Not a single engine had to be changed Not a single setting had to be changed the engines didn't notice the difference. We fired Every type of aircraft off catapults off the limits during the Great Green Fleet We did every sort of helicopter that we've got and Nothing happened We did the first air-to-air refueling Using biofuels. There were a lot of firsts that day and a lot of our global partners Some of whom are here today participating the Australians who are Making a big effort in biofuels landed one of their helicopters on Nimitz refueled and took back off to go back to the Australian ship we've got Countries around the world Brazil Singapore Italy others pursuing biofuels as an alternative But it's not just that it's also some efficiencies that we're doing Macon Island Hybrid ship. It's got an electric drive speeds under 12 knots We deployed Macon Island With a 33 million dollar fuel budget it spent 15 million of that 33 million dollars We were able to plow the 18 million that it saved back into O&M so the next two ships the America and the triple E LHAs that are coming. We're going to have this electric drive. We're looking at Retrofitting some of our DDGs with this we are Doing things that don't get much attention stern flaps Changing the lighting on ships different hull coatings and And for doing that Macon Island and five other surface combatants Got the Navy Energy Award for saving 11,000 barrels of oil in fiscal year 11 we simply have to do that We've got to make this move We have to we don't have any choice and We're beginning to see in just pure financial terms Some real returns on the energy investments We've made only two or three years before and you're going to see them throughout the fit up and beyond and lastly 4th P Partnership Now I make it a point of trying to go and visit as many sailors and Marines as I can Around the world see them deployed to be with them Where they're actually doing the work where? Navy Marine Corps My description is we're America's a way team When we're doing our job most of the time we're a long way from home and America really doesn't know what we're doing How good The fleet is how good those sailors and Marines are of doing I have been for example to Afghanistan 10 different times to express the appreciation Gratitude of this nation for the sacrifices that the sailors and Marines are making there But I've also gone To 96 countries around the world I've traveled 670,000 air miles I And permanently jet lagged I do it to meet sailors and Marines, but also do it to go into these countries that we Operate with that we partner with that we are trying to build their capacity because the new defense strategy says that It has three parts one is focus on the Western Pacific two is focus on the Arabian Gulf and three is build partnerships build capacity around the world I Go to the Pacific To talk about this new strategy and to say that It is real Look at what we're doing with Marines in Australia with Marines and Guam Look at what we're doing putting for LCS is in Singapore Look at what we're doing in terms of where the new bills are going into the Pacific also visit Europe though Talk about the fact that NATO remains our bedrock alliance that NATO for decades has Been that alliance and will continue to be and that not only is Naval presence not shrinking in NATO it is increasing We're moving forward to storiers to road of Spain to do ballistic missile defense work our commitment To these partnerships is real It is substantive and it is lasting and our presence all around Europe From Rota to Italy to Greece to Spain working with our allies Great Britain is real. It's substantive. It's important and this new defense strategy does not diminish That importance in fact It increases it Back here at home. I Think one of my main jobs, and I hope one of your main jobs Is to Talk to the 99% of the American people who do not serve in uniform Many of whom have no connection To our military talk about the importance of the fleet talk about the importance of What the Navy and Marine Corps team is doing around the world and talk about how good Those sailors and Marines are How dedicated they are how many sacrifices they and their families make how the operational tempo has been so high how They have answered Every time so finally And keeping with your conference the Navy and Marine Corps America's a way team stands ready to answer Emperor Bell Semper for us Probably nobody's got a question, but just in case Secretary I was being a little facetious there Pussy power magazine. You gave a fairly positive view. You thought the Navy and Marine Corps doing well yesterday we heard More gloomier news Admiral Gorton Lee particularly I thought that the Navy was with them Very close to dropping off the edge as far as readiness going hollow number of things budget problems and that sort of thing, you know, I mean Say you you were very positive, but how do you address what Admiral Gorton he was saying about our closeness? well, I think He's right particularly with the budget situation And it's part of what I was talking about About the mindless way these cuts operate If give Give us the authority. Give us the flexibility. Give us the ability to Manage whatever budget is Coming We We will have to make some hard choices But one of those choices that we may not have to make is readiness but if the if sequestration and the CR Can if the CR continues the sequestration is triggered we don't have any we don't have that choice We don't have the choice of how to how to move money of how to of what what's our priority? My priority is training my priority is shipbuilding if our priority is readiness if our priority is making sure that That when we send ships to see they're ready to go to see if our priority is building ships to get to the to the size that we need Give us the ability to put money against those priorities and not just say Cut cut cut so I I agree with Admiral Gorton. He that if these things are triggered And the sort of automatic mindless way they work You do run a big risk of becoming hollow If they're not If we're given the ability to manage and I do think we're in we're in good shape And I do think we can set some priorities that I do think we've demonstrated we can make some hard choices Good morning, mr. Secretary. My name is Mark van drop. I'm the DDG 51 program manager I have a question that is possibly both selfish and that you may not want to answer, but I'm gonna ask it anyway Sir you and secretary work have been tremendous and you talked about in your speech You've both been tremendous advocates for shipbuilding within the Navy Which for a secretary in and under is not always been the case historically So I'll ask the question with with the second term of the administration Do you see yourself in secretary work? Sticking with the good fight and continuing to be advocates for shipbuilding here for the next few years as we continue on with Some of the initiatives you talked about in your pitch, sir Number one as long as I'm here. I'm gonna advocate for shipbuilding Number two, I'm gonna be here as long as the president wants me to be here. I have maybe the best job in the world and so You get a chance in Not very many minutes To ask Bob work the same question I'll let him speak for himself. I won't presume to speak for for the under but I will say Speaking of the under not for the under You couldn't have a better under secretary than Bob work He is he has been tremendous not only in shipbuilding, but just across the board Good morning, mr. Secretary Michael Hoffman with military calm He spoke a little bit about sexual assault and I wanted to focus specifically on the naval academy There was a negative report that the Pentagon put forth about the increases seen at military Academies at large citing 225 Unspecified and unspecified sexual contact at midshipman reporting that at the Naval Academy now We have a naval Academy instructor that's been charged with raping a midshipman I'm wondering what type of attention you're placing towards this and what you think can be done to improve this situation at the Naval Academy Number one Speaking more broadly fleet-wide one of the first things I did when I came in was I Established the sexual assault prevention office that reports directly to me. It's the only service that does that but Consider that such a danger To to the fleet to our sailors to our Marines. I wanted to know about it personally We are beginning Fleet-wide to find Answers to these things both in the Marine Corps and in the Navy. I mean it is shameful That we have one of them one sexual assault anywhere particularly in a military force particularly in a military force where We have you know when you take that oath you are saying that you're willing to risk your life for your shipmate Well, this is an attack on a shipmate For the Naval Academy specifically After I saw that report I Went to the Academy I Had the whole brigade there I didn't ask any press because I just wanted to talk to the men shipmen We have failed at the Naval Academy In terms of preventing this in terms of reporting number of reports went down So there's something Happening that's not right and one of the things we're doing is There's a whole long list of concrete steps that the superintendent there is taking The CNO was there with me when I went so this is across the leadership of the Navy But one of the things that we're going to do We were treating the Naval Academy differently Then we were the rest of the fleet We're not going to do that anymore We're going to use best practices the things that work in the fleet. We're bringing them in to the Academy We're doing things like putting more civilian sexual assault Counselors more security But also some of the things that some of the lessons that we have learned some of the good results That we are getting They're gonna they're gonna go into the Academy and they're going in there real fast because I As I said right after that report came out I'm not concerned about it. I'm mad about it. This shouldn't be happening and the midshipman Can do better They've got to do better and they will do better in this Yes Sir Sidney Friedberg from a of all defense. I'm looking at you know the sequestration and CR issues Obviously there are a number of measures you're got you may have to take to fit under the sequester cap That have already been lined up if you were given that discretion to manage to be given a top-line target, but not the Straight line from 2012 or the straight cut across evenly, you know, you said you prioritize Rainace you said you prioritize shipbuilding that kind of takes up a lot of the budget So where where what do you have to sacrifice to protect your priorities? well, I think Number one we are In case these things as I said in case these things trigger. We're beginning to slow the burn rate Down on programs now on people now but There are areas and I think we've shown in the last four years We're willing to make some pretty hard choices that we're willing to cancel some stuff that we're willing to To do some things that are of lesser priority I'm going to reserve the right to actually do that management We get that without I Learned a long time ago Ron said I've spent a lot of my life elected politics That I only get in trouble when I answer what if questions I But I Will I would just repeat what I said Give us a flexibility. I think we've proven over the last four years We we're building we've got these 42 ships under contract with less money than they had in 2008 and they built three ships Yes, ma'am Did stand if her with us and I to follow up on the sexual assault question? I Was wondering my understanding is that as of right now There is not a lot of very good metrics on what kind of training is actually effective at reducing sexual assault Do you think it's a wise use of resources for all the services? Not just the Navy To be putting resources into things like bystander intervention and those kinds of programs Without actually knowing which of the programs you're trying out now are effective The one thing I would say is I don't believe that that statement that you just made is true that we don't know what is beginning to work We we do know and We are tracking these things pretty aggressively to make sure that what we're doing is working And we I think every service faces a different situation You know Thus far we've not seen the situation like Lackland Air Force Base But one of the things that we discovered was that There were very small number of sexual assaults at Great Lakes in boot camp But it went up dramatically when you went to a school So you know number one focus on a school Bystander intervention seems to be the one of the things that works the best and part of it is because of what I said Way earlier about alcohol You see somebody Feeding somebody else drinks You have got to do something about it You just can't let that happen. You can't let it you One of the things I said to the midshipman is you know if somebody came in here was taking shots at Mids We take that really seriously. It's no less of an attack if If somebody sexually assaults one of their shipmates, that's an attack. It's a crime It's it's criminal activity and Shipmates have the obligation To try to defend other shipmates Bystander intervention programs when they're done, right? Actually work are they we're seeing evidence that they work Navy's got a program called no zebras and I had no clue as to what no zebras meant. So I ask It was named after the thing that if lines attack a herd of zebras they Call one zebra out from the herd and attack it and the rest of the herd just moves off If the herd stayed they could beat the lines Is to say if you see somebody in a situation that may result in An assault you've got an obligation to do something about it. It's not enough to say lucky It's not me. It's not enough to say I'm not involved here. You've got an obligation. It's your shipmate That your shipmate that may be under attack. You've got to step in and so I do think putting resources into things like Bystander intervention. I Think it comes one from leadership From people taking it very seriously at every level And I I think we're pretty much there on that common on the Marine Corps and his Sergeant major Made a tour virtually ever Marine base just to talk about this just to talk to their commanders about this Number two, it's got to come from the deck plates. You've got to have your senior enlisted you got to have the chiefs Senior chiefs master chiefs. They've got to be seriously invested in this. They've got to see this for what it is It's a crime. It's not just something that happens. It's not just something that's a result of You know having mixed crews or something like that. It's a crime Number three shipmates have to look after other shipmates as I said We are very carefully and pretty aggressively tracking what works What doesn't work where we're seeing numbers go down and for example? I'll give you one last example in places where we have put breathalysers in place In test programs It's gone down That's one of the reasons we're doing that fleet wide is it's not It's not just sexual assault. The sexual assaults have gone down. So I Cannot overstate How serious this is what a risk this poses to our Navy and I Think that the I know the senior leadership Whether it's me or the C&O or the under or the Fleet commanders or whoever Know how serious this is and it has our undivided attention Anyway, once again, I want to thank y'all very much or Welcoming me old surface guy Back back into the fold. So thank y'all and have a great conference