 He is the leader that we all want to be, and Sergeant Major, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Zeeb, to our T-Con training command and headquarters to tell you a crowd. So if I could get a very rousing round of applause for the 20th Sergeant Major of the Red Corps. It's certainly my head all day long. Everywhere I go, this word is just, I don't know what it is, because it was the video, I watched that video like 25 times now. We go to things every time. And so, I guess I'll start with, before I give you the word, I guess I'll start with two things. First, what you do in your command matters to the Marine Corps. I know I'm supposed to do that. But I'm telling you right now, this is why. There are so many things that one can worry about today. You see Israel, you see Ukraine, you worry about our commonwealth, you worry about our ethnic, and then you look across from each other at the tables. When you go home, you worry about each other, you worry about your children, you worry about how you're going to pay the bills, and it's just a lot of money to play. So if I could just put that somewhere here, just say it aside for a second, because I really just want to talk to you first. So the word is inheritance. Maybe you should have been legacy, I don't know, but inheritance is the word that came to mind. I can just image you back and the former Marines, this applies to you in the room, who are wearing civilian attire, and maybe if you were to see them walking, they don't walk as fast anymore. Their eyesight is not as sharp anymore, right? The waist-hard area is deep about what it means to be a Marine. We answer the question about being a Marine, what that feels like. They're speaking like with this authority, like with this passion, with this spirit that usually just flows out of the screen, and it just hits you. You saw a little bit of the inheritance happen here in the past, remember, cake? And then you see it as probably 98% of this room has had this equal voting for Preston to the poem by a drone-circuit, and that spirit is passed on that way when they are minted by a new Marine. Promotions, you see it in re-enlistments when they re-affirm their commitment to the core. When you go on base and it's early enough or it's late enough, you do something really weird that you stop your car and people stop in their tracks to observe colors, rain or snow, and you have to set the example, but you didn't always set the example. When you were young and you saw, you heard it at 5 in the morning, you started walking a little faster. And then you heard that first snow and you were like, you spent a lot of time in the club, in the core, and then you used the one that somehow ended up pulling Marines out of the car. You knew the one yelling across the parade deck, like, stop colors, it's spirit. If you fast forward and you can image yourself 30 years from today, and it's on the 274th birthday of our core and 30 of you are on the screen in the interview, you were discriminated. What will you say? What will you have passed on to the Marines? You probably missed it at the end. We're a reason you'll be back. Who talks like that? They serve one year, three years, 40. That spirit just keeps on counting on itself. It's this weird feeling. But we also inherited the green way, which is innovation. Innovation is we get it done. It doesn't matter the odds. It doesn't matter what's in front of us. We find the way. We do not care where you come from, how old you are, what the color of your skin is. Do you bring the answer to the fight? What will you say? If you are up on that screen, reinvent it, watch this, hold on here. We inherit that too. We inherit people like a 17-year-old kid who's a stowaway on a ship bound to Iwo Jima. Makes the landing with no weapon. You have a grenade under his body. A second grenade was in under his body. P.S.C. Jeff Lucas. And he would survive. And he would go on to his first day of high school with a metal water on his neck. He wouldn't be sent. He wouldn't be in the Marine Corps. They call it grit. They call that tenacity. They call it courage. And through your service, it just keeps multiplying, multiplying as we keep passing it, passing it, passing it on. Beautiful. They need to be a part of it. That's why people observe things like this and they're like, you guys are a bunch of craters. And that's okay. Tomorrow, when you awake, you will have another opportunity to get right. You will have another chance tomorrow morning to be all of that. To make your own memories. To make your own way. To protect your family. To get after defending the formation. To get after doing the hard things that nobody wanted to do. To inherit potential. To inherit possibility through you, the person, the human being. Relaxed vocals to the jazz. We are the Marine Corps because we make the Marine Corps real. Everything in my, in my theme tells me that we have yet to see the best of the Marine Corps. Not seeing the best of days. We have so much to do. We have so much to meet. In this room, know that more than anyone. I will you treat your uniform tonight. When all of this is over, this is done. You make your way back to your room and you look at yourself in the mirror and you take off your uniform. Don't throw it back on the ground. And I will challenge this room, everyone in it, to remember those people on the screen, those who sit next to you. And I will tell you that you don't have to be 80 years old to get the spirit out and talk weird things like it's on. You can do that tomorrow. It's okay to care. It's okay to smile. It's okay to be who you want to be as a person. As long as you always remember that the standard must be internalized because what we do brings the end is no one could ever possibly compete with. I'm proud of you. I trust you 100%. You're coming on to me in this uniform with you today. Let's do something with it tomorrow. We're going to do something with it tomorrow. We're going to do something with it tomorrow. I present this gift to a leader that the brain court needs right now, the right leader, so, sir, major and everyone, please join me around in applause