 Brooklyn, Queens, New York raised as a New York City kid, born in Puerto Rico, decided to join the Air Force, just looking for something different, living in New York, the concrete jungle, you don't really see the world too much, and so decided to join the Air Force, allowing me to see the world and do something different. Husband, my wife Susie, she's also an airman, she sacrificed a lot to allow me to do the things that I've done in my career. Overall, I've served most of my career as an aerial porter, a port dock, you know, proud and wear that as a badge of honor. Before this, I was the 459th Air Force Women Command Chief, served there for about a year and a half, was an amazing time, was sad to leave, developed some great bonds, relationships with the airmen there, but looking forward and have looked forward to taking on this position. I think number one is just help develop, you know, the force for today's challenges and that future fight. You know, that future fight has been on every various radar, we're hoping to never have to get into that fight, but for me it's, you know, what are we doing to prepare our airmen for that fight and provide that deterrence, you know, we talk about nuclear deterrence, but for me, our airmen are also deterrence, and if our airmen are ready, capable, willing to be there for that fight, I think that will deter the enemy number one, so I think getting them ready for that challenge, I think it's important. The other thing is the goal of mine is to develop a cohesive NAF enlisted force development strategy. So within the next month or so, we're going to bring some command chiefs out there, we're going to sit down and look at force development within our NAF, are we hitting certain metrics, we're going to look at the enlisted force development action plan that came down from the SIMSAP and the CSAP, there were some action items that were out there, and I want to make sure that we are doing everything within our wings to hit some of those action items, to hit some of those do out to hit some of those milestones, I think that's important, and the last thing we're going to look at is retention of the force within our NAF, and so overall on AFRC, you know, across the air force, we do a great job in recruiting airmen. We don't do as good of a job in terms of retaining the force, we lose first term airmen at a little bit of a too high of a clip, and what I want to look at is figure out what's the why, you know, what's driving airmen to leave after our first term, you know, for me it's, airmen watch the commercial, they see the great things that they're going to do, and for some reason with that first term that commercial just doesn't come true for them, and so we're going to look at that and what are the things that we can do to engage the force, what are the things that we can do to retain that asset, so those are the priorities that I'm hoping we get after during that sync. I think number one is, you know, be proud, you know, be proud to wear the uniform, take pride in being an air force airman. There are a lot of individuals, a lot of airmen who have sacrificed for us to be able to wear this uniform, you know, for me, excellence in all we do, it shouldn't be words, it should be a way of life. You know, the second thing is, you know, stay professional at all times, you know, we work in the profession of arms, and I think sometimes we forget that. We have our specialties, you know, be it if you're a maintainer, if you're a personnelist, or if you're a flyer, you know, for me that's secondary to our profession, and so staying professional means, you know, honoring that code of conduct, honoring our foundation, our core values, honoring our discipline, our bearing, you know, just like a house foundation, that's our foundation. If that fails, if that rots, everything else goes. You know, if you can't be trusted to do little things, I'm not sure if we can trust you to do the big things, and we ask you to do some really amazing things. You're on a list of airmen, you know, a fixed million-dollar aircraft. They work on our most important weapon system, which is our airmen, and in order for us to be able to trust them and do that, we have to trust that they have that foundation, that's solid, that's rooted in core values and discipline and customs. So I think for me that second priority is important, stay professional at all times. I'm excited to be a cog in this organization, 34,000 airmen, 18 wings, one DRU. What we've done over the last couple of years, you know, responded at a moment's notice to OAR and OAW, providing that necessary airlift, and then again, having airmen deploy to Task Force Liberty and welcome a lot of those allies providing the refuge that they need, you know, that's just exciting and to be a part of that is awesome. You know, we talk about the last couple years and we look at what we did in terms of responding to COVID, not just the airmen responding and, you know, vaccinating the force at a moment's notice, but also providing those resources out there to local communities, you know, be it our nurses or our med techs, helping at the height of COVID. That's amazing. And so for me, it's I'm excited to be a part of that organization. I'm just excited, you know, what we're going to do going forward again in preparation for that future fight.