Lt. Gen. Shaun Q. Morris, incoming Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Commander, is promoted to lieutenant general at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Sept. 3. Morris was previously the Commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, and Air Force Program Executive Officer for Strategic Systems at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. (U.S. Air Force video by 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs)
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and a special welcome to all of General Morris’s family and friends and to our distinguished guests in attendance today. Welcome to Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the National Museum of the United States Air Force. I’m Colonel Bernard Willis, and it’s my pleasure to serve as the narrator from Major General Sean que Morris’s promotion to Lieutenant general officiating. Today’s ceremony is General Arnold W Bunch, Junior Commander, Air Force Material Command. During today’s ceremony, in accordance with State of Ohio’s health protection Order, the official party will remove their face coverings to offer remarks, and the audience members will maintain usage of their face coverings. Ladies and gentlemen, now, please stand for the arrival of the official party and remain standing for the playing of ruffles and flourishes. The Generals March by the Air Force Band of Flight Spirit of Freedom The Posting of the Colors by the Wright Patterson Honor Guard the national anthem by Technical Sergeant Joan Joanne Griffin, Air Force Band of Flight member and the invocation by chaplain at Matthew Frankie Command Chaplain, Air Force Material Command. Well, or oh, you see, by the dawn’s early So okay, last Lean. Whose? Brooks? Right on brides. There’s Oh, no three Watch. So please dream. Thank you. Okay, I know that Waas Just you’re saying way. No, Chaplain. Frankie, where you please offer the implication I join you in prayer? We got together today to pause and to celebrate, but let it also be a time for us to reflect into dedicate. Come here This afternoon celebrated great accomplishment promotion of one of the senior leaders of our air Force In general, this is a big deal. Because even though we strive to produce leaders for our air force, you can just make individual in our airports. Comes to us with special gifts and talents, experiences and perspectives. And so it is the General Boris you blessed with unique talents and abilities with a family who embodies military service to the nation with loving spouse, teen and killing. So Page John Jacob, You have supported him in his military service with peers, supervisors around his career. It is because he’s been fading Stewart of those blessings in the past. He’s now a trusted, served in the higher grade and to be faithful with before it’s like a baby would grant us perspective to see our unique talents, abilities and blessed as your unique gifts given to serve those around us Plus did awards and his family left hard time of celebration. Today let’s our nation and lift our service. Your name. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Thank you. Air Force Band of Flight The spirit of freedom The Wright Patterson honor Guard Tech Sergeant Griffin and Chaplain Frankie. Before we begin, I would like to take a moment to introduce some of our special guests and ask that you please hold your applause. And then until after all the introductions are made, please welcome General Morris, a spouse, Mr.s Jeanne Morris, daughter Paige and son Jacob, his father, Chief Master Sergeant Quincy Morris, United States Air Force retired and Mother Iris brother Mr. Scott Morris and sister in law Genet nephews William and Kate, sister Mr.s Christie Hartley and brother in law Todd, Niece Olivia and Nephew Trent, brother in law Mr. David Ho, Extra and sister in law and brother in law. Mr. Paul Garcia and sister in law Renee, please also welcome Jerry Morse’s friends. Mr.. Mike Gil, the former Air Force Material Command executive director, senior executive Service, retired and his spouse Susan and Mr. Brian on co. And says Spouse Mary. A special welcome, also to our distinguished visitors from the Air Force Material Command Front Office. Lieutenant General Karl Schaefer, Deputy commander and Chief Master Sergeant Stanley Cadel, command chief from the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center Front Office Lieutenant General Robert McMurray, Commander, Air Force Lifecycle Management Center and spouse Major D. McMurray, United States Air Force retired Miss Cathy Water in executive director. Colonel Charles Cain, vice commander and Chief master Sergeant Troy Croft, command chief. Also, please welcome Mr. Joseph Z’s the governor of Ohio’s appointed senior adviser for aerospace and defense. Mr. Jeff Hoagland, president and CEO of the Date and Development Coalition. Brigadier General Heather Pringle, commander, Air Force Research Laboratory, and Colonel Patrick Miller, Commander 88th Air Base Wing. In addition, Mr. Sam being the regional representative to southwestern Ohio for US Senator Robert Portman. Thank you. And welcome to our many distinguished guests in the audience from the Air Force and the date in community. We thank all of you for joining us for this special occasion today. Now, please join me in a round of applause for all of our honored guests at this time. It’s my distinct pleasure to introduce General Bunch. No way. Way I said hello. Everybody here. Okay? Yeah, Working here. My, unfortunately, my Tennessee accident Live in the so everybody get afternoon. And thanks for coming in. Join us today on this great day for the Morris family. A great day. So it is not often used to do one of these. So first off to you and Jean Sean. Thanks for Let me be a part of it. Biggest honor. You could get it to get to do promotion or retirement ceremony, Dawn or someone for their service and what they’re gonna do. Thanks for letting me be a part of it. Really happy about this. It is taking us a little longer to get here than we thought we were going to. We’ve actually thought about as a new line of his bio that he was the incoming Air Force lifecycle mention center commander, because this is taking a little longer. But we’re here. We’re happy we’re here and we’re gonna move on with it and they go to that long. Are they always make it. They’re going to do something a little later that when they with flags. And it’s the one thing that my family still talks about today from all of my promotion ceremony’s is what they do. And then just add a touch of class food and make it memorable. And it’s to the van. Thank you again. I love having you all here. We do such a great job. It’s perfect and tech started. Griffin, Thank you. You’ve got as someone who has a voice that my Children asked me not to sing in church. You actually make it very good. And I really appreciate you being here and doing all senior leaders. Thanks. Communion. Laters. Thank you. Happy you’re here being part of this. I’m really happy. Too much of the families traveled to be your Some of them have been to these. Some of them happened having so I have no idea what’s getting ready to happen. So this should be entertaining at the minimum for some of that. When I say something really nice, you don’t believe that you could roll your eyes, Say something nice about him. A gene. Usually what happens to his mom believes every word I say about her little boy, That doesn’t have any. I do I’m talking about. We’ll see how this works out. As we go through this today, we try to do some formal things, but we also try to have a good time because it’s a really big day for everybody in the, uh, on the family side. We’ve got people that are virtual Why are you here? We got those that are here. We’re just happy that everybody could make it today. I gotta read the list because it’s a pretty long list. We got jeans, sister and David. Thank you for making the trip and coming in. We’ve got jeans, brother Paul and Renee and they’ve not been one of these. So this is the big ones, That kind of watching to see how this plays out. We’ve got Sean, Sister Christine and Todd and Lydia and drink and Friends is the happiest dude in the world because he had to wear a tie, come to today’s festivities. So he’s already he’s already pulling this really down low and have fun things got work. So I ask you, which airplane I’m fast you go. There’s so many. We quickly wait. We need more. So anyway, Shawn’s brother Scott, engineer William and Kate out of Texas, A lot of Texas vacated. It came up here to be part of the best TV. So thanks for your service. Your brother, your sister, their events they don’t like because he’s wearing the uniform. And she served alongside. So thanks for your support of him and for everything that you’ve done to support him as I make this journey on. Probably not even a journey that G thought they would be making when they met. But I go into that in more detail a couple of minutes. Yeah. Let me talk about a couple of she Master Sergeant Quincy Morris and has brought ma’am. Thank you for your service. You served as a military spouse and you served his military spouse at a time frame. We didn’t have a lot of the family support programs that we have today. And you said a path for taking care of folks and being a great so thank you. Thank you for that. Then you add on top of that that when a child where’s the uniforms? Your servant in this world? Because I know you’re thinking about him. I know you’re worried about, and you’re doing all those things. I know my mom and dad do it all the time. You double, sir. So thank you for your service and taking good care of him. Okay? Yeah. The thing that’s different about our Air Force and our military and all the other out there. And it’s what every country would die. It’s our professional in Seo Core, led by cheese. I know what a lot of countries have. Outstanding journal. Then they have They don’t have professional in seo core that we have in this nation, and that’s led by chiefs. They’re the ones that sent that example filter down to those senior NGOs and set standards and make sure their professional operating with integrity and doing all those things. And that’s what makes our ripples. She Morris was a concept. And so, sir, thank you for your service. Thank you for sending Greatest Thank you for you both for instilling and Sean are core back. We didn’t have to do a whole lot of shape. And once we got you all in already still them because he watched you do your business. So thank you for your service. I’m glad you’re able a bigger today, and you should be very, very proud. This is a major accomplishment. And, uh, I’m not sure how you felt when your son became a no. When you have been me. But I will tell you he learned from you along the way, and he treats everybody with respect that you would expect. You all should be very, very proud of that. Thanks for being okay. I get talk about the nearer, and I got to do this one to the camera. And I had this one down here, so I’m gonna kind of be all over the map here. So bear with me now. You talk about kids personal when we talk about be so Sophie’s at Texas Tech. She is studying natural resource management. We did the last ceremony I got to do these Popes. She was in the wilderness of New Mexico, counting birds and having a blast and roughing it. She’s a hotel. She’s eager Tele schooling or in person. And she’s doing a mix. Sophia, I know you want to be here. Thanks for your service and sacrifice along the way. Hey, Page is from right now resides in Waco. She is a history teacher. Percent of the next parade asked her, Have a pandemic was going and how this teaching thing going And I started rattling off ideas. He goes, Those all sound right? No, I’m not. Should know. This school district should know this. She’s doing a break upset, working with kids and setting the example for them. So thanks. I believe anybody teaching beyond about the fifth level on your comment. So thank you for what you’re doing. The shape minds as they go forward here, John adding virtual hey, lived in lives in Santa Clarita and work for four people working. I wish you could be. You’re John. I told you’re the one that has been driving at one question that’s in all the kids minds and I’ll get to in a minute. Hopefully be avalanche that question for you. But I know you wish you could figure celebrate with moment. Jacob lives in Albuquerque, works with Fidelity Investments, and it is doing all the work. We’re glad you’re able to make any for all four of you, your mom and average Freeman. And they love you very, very much. you won’t understand how much I love you until you have your own kids. Then you mind come to grasp a little bit of how much they love you. They are, but really glad that the two of you got to be your person and the other two were getting to be here. Virtually the part. That’s the big kid question. His dance picture gonna be up in the gym. That’s the big question on everybody’s asking, So I will give you the right answer is it should be up in the gym about 34 hours. Every picture of this. You should be coming down, and it should be replaced immediately by one of this gym, because that’s the sign of the utmost respect for your new commander. So, yes, if you go to the gym or if you go a the right path or hands come and you go into security forces area, you’ll see a picture of Dad there so that your mark for success that succeeded these guys picture there. That was one of burning questions that I was told never asking along the way. Here were the pictures way got that talk about Mom and Dad, Let now let me talk about Sink House. The most important part of the Morris family and the bedrock that holds everything together. And that Gene Jeanne is from the breast. Um, to say that the way that she grew up with Reyes was not exactly aligned with what you would expect for a military life. I would possibly be a little bit of it, understand our moment, Damn live in the same house that always lived in from when she was a kid or as a podiatrist. Their mother is a nurse, and Dan is actually the miner of the community that they lived in. The only reason she laughed. He had a degree in education. I want to be able to teach. And she found this really good paying job in California. Now Sean says she may not have been the cost of living analysis, right for why it was paid so much more. I live in California that you didn’t live in Nebraska. She pretty quickly found that out when she got out there, which I was really happy that you might be decision to go to San Bernadino work and she taught 5th and 6th graders in the nursing school. I think I got that part right. So she is now in California and single Sean is a lieutenant there, and beautiful friends invite them to go see World over Labor Day weekend. They go there. They me. Two weeks later, they start naming. Six months later they’re engaged one year later. Now I always ask, How did you ask you to make? I don’t know If it was an dramatic story I told you about yesterday. It’s pretty close. They had a routine. I would always go to the B X. They would buy a bag of malted milk balls at the candy shop that was there. So Sean by bag puts the ring in the bag and she opens it up and find rain. Says yes, and to celebrate. Let the big romance. How do you ask your future bride to be your bride for many, many years? And they’ve been married for 30 years, since I’m asking if she had any idea what she was stepping into this military life. You see, I talk that that we’ll just do it now. Showing him moved 10 times before he ever went to the Air Force Academy. They 14 times since then, she had no idea they didn’t really talk about the movie. So the counter king on yourself in a different kind of relationship. When, shortly after we were here, we had been married, he said. You don’t get H to move because he’s raised up what he’d done all of the black, all his dad, mom around every so many years, you move away, Jean head with that and hand. Just, um, I run to get. I started running together when the kid’s got old enough that they could stay home alone and they can go train together and then run half Americans to get that’s what they did their training right now for the virtual half for the airports. Miracle Jeanne and I had a few conversations about humidity is here. And now that that’s what that does to your train, but they’re still on a path to be ready to run their course pack this year. Um, thank you. You have no idea what you’re stepping into this military and I four people with the times I say that Aaron the uniforms, but I need the family to understand it the best value Did the American taxpayer gives multi response? You pare it down often they put their career on hold and that way we knew cold things like Golden Fly New airplanes B A commander via director be a PDO do all these really cool things. Well, they’re trying to figure out where the kids go to school. Who’s gonna do, man hole. We’re gonna worship. Where am I gonna learn a musical instrument that everybody’s got to do? And that’s what the moms are spouses. I can’t say that Mr.s Bunch here should give me the ax on same moms because spouses, that’s what spouses did. So changes. Thank you for your service and your sacrifice because we know that you’ve sacrificed So Sean can’t wearing the uniforms and I suspect strongly suspect that he will say thank you in a couple of minutes. And if he doesn’t feel free to keep Okay, you’re clear. Let me talk a little bit. Born in Lincoln, little Tree bleeds Air Force boy. I asked him why we didn’t whine, decided you want to go to the airport. And he said, Well, based on what I’ve grown up with Dan being in the military and looking at all this, he goes, I just thought that would be the right place to go. It seemed a natural. So I applied and went to the Air Force Academy was accepted to the airports. Can I think what it and thought? Because he got accepted to the Earth. He said, I actually think that believe that they school went down a notch because they’ve taken his kid in. He actually thought that. I don’t believe that, sir, for a moment. But that’s what your little Johnny here told me along the way. The reality of it is you got accepted into the Air Force Academy, graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering, and he was on his journey to be an airport. Uh, no to be they. And I did not know this until I looked at his record peacekeeper rail system for I c b M. That’s what he worked on for his first job. Very controversial program program to have a lot of issues. Self starter, top Lieutenant. Uh, hello, contractors. Accountable. So I say these because kind of all those things that we watch on for many years now is an officer in the Air Force album Toe Heidemarie found ways to be efficient Found waste site money identified problems and shortfalls in the contractor. Proposals on made everything work out and make it work Natural builder of esprit de corps. Those are all things that bring his first couple of lieutenant performance reports and things that when you read those to go Okay, that explains exactly who is being a journal. So it was that foundation percent and he built that going along the way. Yeah. Woops. Okay, I’m supposed to keep They got to go work in a joint program office on national Watch, system and work and what you learned there, Waas worked with NASA to build partnerships to be able to get things done. He and, um, he and Gene any wasn’t exactly which is a great job because you weren’t how business is done at the singer level, and you learn it a very onstage. And he was the morale builder of the office and make sure everything got done. Kristen’s back here. She’s minds that God bless her. And your job is the exact is to make sure that what the bosses get has been QC. It’s ready to go. You’re reading all the documents that were coming in. You’re looking at all the performance reports, and you’re making sure that the boss’s job is easy as you can. It is a very hard job to do, one that Shawn did very, very well when he was out in North before he got his next, You went down to kill and he went out. Kelly and you worked in and he worked 15 engines, and he wanted that side of the business. He went into a different area and further brought down his career and learned at that logistics complex at the time just extended at the time. It great things, improving aircraft of I literally get more airplanes out. Get the engines work. We need to be something that you will get a call back in your memory. In the job you get. Rid step of Robert and I’ve had conversations about that within the last week. John learned on that. Then he got an opportunity that gets you got to be a camp for my Children. Now they camp is always at the general side. They are making sure he’s actually eating, making sure he’s got all these documents making sure he’s got his uniforms following every day, watching absolutely everything that’s being done and you’ve got the number one along the company grade officers, that organization, while he was in that job, one of the things he did in that job. And if you think back to Kelly, you got to work with the BRAC commission and everything that was going for. Those family members don’t know what that is. That’s the base realignment. Include Kelly was device that we decided we’re gonna close and there’s a wine. His performance report that said he prepared breaking four. This is kind of like a who’s who. The president of the United States, the secretary of the fans, the secretary of the Air Force, the chief of staff of the Air Force, the senators and representatives of the state of Texas and the good. Now that’s Camp a who’s who. If you’re gonna try to build a brief, tell people what you’re doing, And that’s what young Officer remorse was doing at the time. This is where he also learned a little bit about being an Air Force family, and why how you sometimes you can take yourself too seriously. Mom has now got a couple kids at home and there’s something pops up and she can’t find and showing Can’t leave, general. So Sean goes general, and John ends up with his car seat in the back of staff car while Jacob and the other as Jacob, Mom and I’m around the base with two star and Dad cruising around doing business. Keep in the mission. Go. So the truth society, it is a family affair that we do this and even though sometimes we have, like, we don’t care about families we care greatly about. So I can only imagine the pictures if someone would have had all of the car seat in the back of the staff car with general set aside, Sean going around and doing absolutely lawyers. Sean got to go to, uh, from there. He got to go Teoh Air Command get arrested. And when he went to ask, the West may have that slightly out of sync with us. He was single spread and he was sending contribute. I tell that from this side they know what that means. I tell that for this that means top 10% of the class with your peers, but more importantly, outstanding contributor mains. Your classmates voted you as the individual that contributed the most to their learning during the entire club. That one is really how honor that all of us look at very and because it’s peers who are looking at you. And it’s because you could build teamwork and you can dio come Sean and I didn’t have that. She went there before you went to Sean, then went to write work on engines again. I say this one for human. One of the projects that Sean worked on was, Do we really engine the B 52 the TF 33 replace that program? He got to do the study when he was a captain. Why do I find that humorous? Because right now in our budget, we are finally getting around to doing what Captain More studied all those years ago, and it’s a program that will play a key role in the new job stepping into the future. But he did great things there. He won’t performer of the year two times for all of the engine shop, out of almost 200 people. He was normal. One performer, voted on by the leadership and selected, distinguished himself in a fantastic job. Um, somewhere along the way here who was called something that I thought was particularly know already the rock in a storm of transition, I thought that means cool under pressure, common everybody else down, being able to get things done. I thought that was a great compliment to Shawn and matches up what I’ve seen on his performance over the years. Everything that he did there Waas He was the epitome of air force leadership, driving efficiency and increasing the support of the work. Later in the day, he went Air commander staff. I don’t normally go with your I bring this one up because someone in the family absolutely that one is probably the toughest year that they had with the sun. She was pregnant with Sophie soon as they moved, the kids got chicken pox. And if you’ve ever been albanna in the summer and you or have a spouse that is great with child, it is hot humor, and it is not pleasant that way. So you got that going. You got all the kids getting chicken pox. Now that makes three almost four. You have other illnesses that come up. Sean gets kidney stones, so he’s joy to live with. And she said the day they moved in, the mover goes, You have some water bugs over here, but we don’t think it’s a problem and it was in their house and it was copper and jeans, said I never wanted to go back to Alabama again. I don’t believe that’s where the Morrises will be settling whenever they decide they’re gonna hang this up, I’m pretty sure. Later on his career, Sean went to the next war college, and we kind of joked about that a little bit today on the phone because you have out of their workloads have been very lonely here because the family was not going with me back to Alabama. So, uh, you get a great job. There was a top performer, but happiness. Jeanne was saying that in reviewing mirrors that move Teoh decent. You see, he got to work for and I bring this up because if you interact and you worked with some of the people that we get the opportunity to, you see general officers that just get And I said an example that you can’t even like the rest of your career. And he got the privilege of going into work as a program element monitor and a congressional action officer. We got going out of building work, and then you got to work on the F 22 program in a critical time. Circle back to that. But I think most importantly, there Waas you got to work with John Cornyn. Many of us believe is the smartest people that your general lobsters that the Air Force has ever had. An absolute true gentlemen and class. And you got to work for a guy named Work Wolf. And Jim Wells became our chief of staff. And he is probably the best leader that I’ve ever seen his ability to communicate and link up with Chairman and haven’t got privilege of working for directly. She got to watch him on a daily basis. He was just completely in his own. And Shaun got the privilege of learning from those two gentlemen. Wallet is in the back side of crazy building that we call the Pentagon. And you take those lessons, you applying the house I believe and how you got how you work. And that has shaped Sean along the way quite a bit. Working for those clothes. You got tough straps. The part there that’s really critical. A program element monitor. These guys mostly know what that is. We usually pick one major looking car and we give them a program. And whenever we have a problem on the hill and we’re trying to fight for money and talk about what’s going on a program, we put them on the bus, we send them over to Capitol Hill and I get tried explaining to staff they are the first one of defense for our budget. They are our first line of defense, trying to beat back those people that want to steal your money and give it to their You have to know all the facts. You have no everything going on in the program, and you’re gonna be able to tell it not in acquisitions speed or find a pilot test pilot geek speed. You gotta be able to tell it in the vernacular that someone that’s never been the inside of an airplane can understand, and they gotta understand how important it is, and they’re gonna understand why they take your money or whatever they do. They’re gonna hurt the Air Force and hard work. And that’s when he got to go your wealth, Rose Wine and John’s OPR that if there is a 911 call from the chief’s office, we call Show and the acquisition executive from the Air Force had to go test find. At 22 I got one subject matter expert to go with them to set behind them and answer questions. Sean John is the one that our opposition leaders pulled in to go. Sean then got his first opportunity. Will be a commander at the Defense Contract Management Agency. Got work in Baltimore. Watch join job. So not only looking out for programs like 20 to 35 other airports programs. But he was also looking at helicopter programs E 60 e 18 and other programs for the Navy. The reins And that program is critical because you won’t have contractors doing business. You’re not understand what contractors profit margins are. You learn when the contractors trying to blow smoke up your skirt and not really perform the way they’re supposed to and you’re gonna hold account. And if we use them right there, great asset for what we want to do, managing programs to make sure that we’re getting the performance that we need. You get fantastic job there. You got great ratings by his supervisors and in the mind that I love with that said he took a dysfunctional organization and got it back on the right path. Created positive, climate created right work environment so that it would perform in function as one unit versus something that was all over the map on display. So we did a fantastic job there and didn’t have PCs right, because we just evolved. And then, as I said, National War College and back to the five sided building working with Joint Stack. Most of us who are acquisition folks don’t work on the joints. There are very few acquisition individuals that go to the joint staff, and he worked with J. D. J. A looks at all the requirements, evaluates all the programs going on in the Department of Defense. He was looking at about $20 million for the programs and advising the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Another performance. That’s what Sean was. He got top straps out of all of his bosses there and did a fantastic job. One of the key things he played rolling there was looking at her. I mean, their vehicle system, that was timeframe when remotely piloted was starting to take off. And we’re trying to hear what we invested in. He played a key role in evaluating the global off the in Q one and Q nine for what we’re gonna do. Going forward, they got another command opportunity. Go to Kuwait. Another tough year with four kids and being deployed down range took away at a critical time for our operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is making sure we had the right materials in the he and I can sure, the people that were doing work for us and they were doing it the right way on the front lines, supporting the mission, directly, making things happen. Number one DC Micro that they had, um, got kids to go back for Randy Bush. Right later. Andy Bush. She is a real quiet guy, but always knows business. Sean got to be advice, and he got number 2. 31 the first year at anti Bush for all the currents. The next year, he got number one out of 31 for all the Cardinals, when he made it up to be a well commander full of single material out there, you got to work this small program that Robert and I still get to talk about, sometimes called a Henry weaning and a bunch of other activities. All the kids he did out there keep keeping older platforms and five ready to go to the next in Beijing and work recognized expert recognized team Miller, doing a fantastic job across the board. Have to come back here and work on the Casey 46 program. He was a first person. We put in charge of Casey 46 program. That was an accident. Where to start. He had made the right, but he wouldn’t wearing it at the time and came back and was doing that Singer mature later job on that critical program, which is vital. Our force going forward for How do missions all around the world if we don’t have a tanker fleet, we can’t project power everywhere, and charm has played a key role in making sure we got that capability. We went toe England to be program executive officer for weapons. For the family. That just means he was only in charge of all the weapons that are non nuclear for the United States. That’s a little bit so critical. Critical for a couple reasons, one ever we’re bringing on new Keiko’s small diameter about two massive ordnance penetrator a bunch of other things that I’m not gonna talk about, increasing our production of jazz ums, increasing all those things. The other part, though, that we decided to make it more complicated for Sean. We decided that we’re using a lot of weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. How we doing on stock cause Do we have enough weapons to be able to keep our native and the answer waas? Yes, but we probably need to ramp back up. So Sheldon got to work with all of our industry partners to rant toe Max higher than we’ve ever produced Joint direct attack munitions, which is the weapon of choice for the war small diameter bomb, a level that far exceeded anything we’ve ever produced. Hellfires and bring on new systems like its advanced precision kill weapons system in man time to put it out. Direct support what we needed to do down range To make sure we’re executing a mission. Make sure we could supply not only ourselves, but also around is important. Could you see those stockpiles or not? Just ours. We have to produce weapons for a large portion of the rest of the field. And Sean did you slightly before he went toe, egg window and had for military cells. That upset, which is a job, that he and I shared a whole just getting them. We have a huge for military cells of portfolio, and Sean was responsible for making sure that executed. That was a step that he took between Casey, 46 going his last year before coming here. Air Force Nuclear weapons We’re going through right now the biggest modernization of our employer Arsenal, that we’ve gone through. Probably 30 to 40. Our parents cruise missiles were built in the eighties with 10 years. Our Minuteman three weapons were built in the eighties. With 10 years we’ll still use them today. It started before Sean got there. Sean took that to a whole nother level. He can’t multibillion dollar programs on track. Well, at the same time, sustaining these older things that we really wanted to get out the inventory. But we need to keep something we had credible, viable So that we continue to do our huge portfolio. Yes, only the number one priority of Secretary okay, critical to this nation’s nuclear deterrent. And he built that team, increased our manpower up so we could do nuclear certification, which we had down in years started. Man enough to run all these key programs, bringing in the right talent to do all those things and put on a great path by the biggest thing that Sean there is professionalism and the way that he worked with this team, he greatly increased the credibility of our acquisition nuclear enterprise with all the Department of fans and with all of our partners with the combatant commander in the base. He got it to the point that when he said, we’re gonna do this, it was instantaneously balloon. And I will tell you that in years past he built that team and drove that performance to a level that we had seen before and got in a great pass. So we could do this nuclear modernization, right? Okay, Family, hopefully a little bit about what he’s been doing in his spare time. Why not always with making great contributions to this night? Tremendous names for the nation’s. So today we’re gonna do something that’s extra special where I knew it. It’s big for the Morse’s bank for everybody, really big for our. You know, if it’s you, I list some of the accomplishments. Those were only you. Everything he’s done up to this point has been remarkable. We don’t promote people because of what they did before we promote them because of what we know they could do in the next. Great on what we know their performance can continue to be. That’s why I get promoted, because we see that much more potential. What Sean can do, going forward to put this in perspective for the family. There are about 330,000 uniformed mammon and are there are alot 60,000 officers in our today, Sean will be number 42 of the lieutenant generals in our reports, because that’s all the role. So 300,000 60 something 1000 42 that gives you an idea of the select company that Shawn and Jean are stepping into with this promotion and why it is such an extra special day with keep Not sure your thought is gonna be a three stone, but you should be very proud that he’s gonna be today. So let’s get on with Thank you, General Bunch Mention remorse when you please join me in a bunch of center stage. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the publishing of a promotional. Other Stewart attention to orders Special Order Number Alfa Alfa Golf 074 by direction of the President of the United States Acting upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Air Force, Major General Sean QUE Morris is appointed to the grade Lieutenant General, United States Air Force Under Title 10 United States Code Section 60 More effective the third of September 2020. At this time, we’d like to invite Page and Jacob to come forward and said on your father’s new, the star is the oldest continually used rank in the United States military. The use of the star to signify the rank of general officer could be traced to a June 17 80 decree by General George Washington during the War of American Independence. It is believed that General Washington chose Star as the simple general officer rank in honor of its use in the Allied French armed forces. It is customary for painting members or close friends to participate in depending ceremony to recognize their contributions to promote these success in achieving higher rank. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand again. As General Bunch re administers the oath of office to Lieutenant General, Do something because solving this morning and leave, I take this obligation. Well, well, just short. So thank you, General Bunch. John Morris, please remain center stage. John Moores will now be presented with his new personal colors on order. Yeah. Thank you. Write Patterson under guard and airports. Pain to play Spirit of freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s my privilege to introduce to you the news, Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force Lieutenant General Sean Que Theo. So any honor guard man to all the boats that just paid putting this together first. Thanks. Don’t worry. I had a really, really discussion you’re trying to figure out how to do. All these ceremonies will do. And the first thing that we agreed on right up front, you have to have their export flyers, professionalism and how great? Yeah, into all the distinguished visitors, which apparently, is every single one of you. Thanks. Thanks for coming. Thanks for being here. It saves me having to worry about introducing anybody. That wasn’t so the only one that Tom, thanks for your theme back here in case you get represent, right? So all of you represent a group of one or another that you are either online today. Oh, or would have liked to have been here, obviously in mourning this environment. So we should be represented one group so much. I’m gonna start with you. Thank you very much. Bronner, By serving, you represent all of the great leadership I have learned under. So I’ve been blessed to get to work for you. With you. A couple over the course of our careers. I even got a chance to follow you into jobs, which is which is also I have had. I have absolutely good West about my career. With fantastic going back all the way. The beginning of my very first boss. Some of you may know him a major Al Ballenger went on to be When I see a colonel with my boss and he said, Have you talked all the time about her first experience when she walked into an organization that first boss really sets the standard? Really? For everything that happens. So So I know that gratitude. Our ship opportunity. Curtis here. Luke Curtis Childress. Fantastic leaders. I invited poorly journal Wells. There were no, I don’t know that our Air Force has had to greater leaders in serving opportune. You work for them, not only work for them, but worked for them in a time of absolute prices. Because I worked in them as well. Right? We’re just won’t be written. God, we got a strike. So I got to not only observe them dealing with Cardiges deserve dealing with our issues. Critical time prices you learned a lot about So So I have absolutely been blessed. You. I would There is no There’s no doubt I would not be standing here today if it wasn’t for your Bush. There are a lot of general officers in our airports today that would not be general officer. It wasn’t even if I think about when I was there. General Jansen, Darryl Staff, Uh, General Baby Darryl’s Obel, Cheryl Miller, General Day. All of us were there together with my consume. And if you think about at one Centre, to generate that many general officers is not the love that you have that many great leaders who happen to show up with that one location. It’s a testimony to the leadership there, right? They’re going to develop that promoted. He was absolutely fantastic that I start all the great folks that I had pleasure working for. Throughout my career, I’ve learned it has been a blessing to decide in the room you really represent right that our work community, right teams of boats that work for us, right for that we work with as peers or have an opportunity to observe and job much a lot, a lot of things that teams suppose we work with on. I certainly have a tremendous appreciation that I accomplished none of that right, that teams of people who work with me work for me, accomplished all of those things. I was just That’s really what you all here represented, right is those teams that I now do produce to work with either on a quarter staff or on on will make that transition at the next ceremony. But I’m I am super excited for that as well. There’s nothing. Good luck getting that. You hear that To marry Brian. Thanks for coming out. So you guys really represent the with friends that way? Have opportunities military families to make you have nothing to do with the military at all. Right? Just the people that we live with. So we met you when we were here, living entering the mom radar, The bomb raid or is it is a very powerful tool. I haven’t. We may want to study the ability of moms to seek each other out, right? You know, from all over the place on to be and Kevin contact your here. But we have certainly had an opportunity in every place. Yeah, living out in the great great friends. You really represent that, Susan, you really represent the friends we make inside defense line. And so we had an opportunity to meet when you came out to be the executive director on what was in time, the Ogden Air Logistics Center. Uh, with Gerald Bush on that time. I think I was probably transitioning between vice commander and record. And if not, we’re neighbors. Work yourself down job all the organization that some people on this side of I know what that is actually being here. Higher place. I did, but here. But we’ve stayed friends, right this time. You really represent all of those inside the wire friends, right? We have. Oh, now as we go through our careers So we appreciate that. Really? That, uh, yeah, you’re still here? Way as we circle around writing back Teoh back on the rest of you represent right. Obviously great families that all of us have supporters go. So all of today. And David, you’re here representing the Garcia clan. So jeans, other brothers and sisters J and Carlene, President Jo, Saudi Dick would not be here today. We’re honored. You’re here today. Thanks for coming out. All this is the first one of these. Come to you. I realize now you will come to Lieutenant Colonel. Want Wait till the last one right there. Just a lot more stuff way. But this is a lesson you can learn. I will. No, I To be honest, I have considered. This is about, you know why Last promotion, right? Told you. Probably. If you want to do one of these, you probably How come you’re probably not going to, You know, this might be our last one. And, uh, back there are so many people today. Makes me think maybe they actually believe what to take from that. But the math isn’t very hard either. The opportunities you’re getting pretty thin, but thanks for being here. Thanks for representing. Gene’s parents have been to many of these. We would have loved ever gym and Irene. Two years. They have been absolutely fantastic support structure for us. We’re just a small money story. Well, I think it’s but So I was working these people repairs, and Gene and I met many of you. Probably didn’t notice when you drove into the museum today that there is a rail car since out kind of on the end, the only time anybody ever notices it is it’s right at the start of the airport marathon, people put their stuff under, and I have a test program on that really and way actually had a test site that we least in Colorado just just outside Denver. And so So I was there doing test. And these parents don’t actually live apart from their They live in very western Nebraska so way were dating at the time it was winter. So while I’m there, I’m gonna go meet parents and there’s a big snowstorm. And at some point over the course of this trip, I developed like a hole in my shoe. And this is back when we just wore this uniform when this wasn’t a dress uniform, right? You know, we only put on for ceremony. We have to board, like all the time. And so my first experience meeting Jim and I green is I show up. You know, I’m wearing this uniform. I’ve been walking around beats feet of snow with a hole in my shoe. They’re probably thinking, what in the world way, This is the choice. And the whole time I should probably gave you you made so if you were a gentle shapers promotion general talked a lot about how well you may notice Today, Ceremony did not have any. Well, General Morris did is that I think the reason I had to hold on my shoe with I think it’s the same pair of shoes, like just not too long ago. Marching tours I am, Which is when you get an opportunity. Got something she probably doesn’t weigh. Saw people out. I was with the masses, So that’s where the whole thing I did buy shoes and it all worked out. And your parents ever said it would have been very, very gracious about that experience. But I’m sure they have, uh, every thanks for sticking. And then, obviously my family is here, and they’re all here. This is Christie’s first opportunity as well. So the same lesson. Christie, Lieutenant Colonel. Much in a major way. Way down there, Captain was like, way that happened. Promotion minutes. Jean was already like a week and a half overdue. And it was kind of like a hot potato. Nobody wanted talking time, right? You know what? Labour came into play so that but but over. Glad you’re here. Thanks for coming out. And Scott is out. Travel Scott has been to abuse was at my last promotion with other Sunday rotated through some of these guys. There’s a lot of business with military order. It’s just been a great support structure my entire family has always been. That’s because we grew up in right, so they understand. Uh, I I did a lot of movie, but I actually had, I think four or stability. I did two years in my mind, I think. Oh, Kristin Scott, no state waded. That one of our Children. It’s just now. No. So they so they understand how hard this is supported my parents. Thanks for being here again. They have been to most of these. We’ve had a couple that we haven’t been able to do. I got Colonel on very short notice way that was probably are small and that when I was probably most disappointing about because I really had been really everything. Uh, yeah. So I appreciate you being with us and gentle, but I don’t have to say much more than you got it exactly right, right. This was reasonably easy for me to step into doing this because I had a great example of one more. I knew what your horse was about. I knew what was expected. I knew what worked at would look like from having experienced that over these years on. That brings me finally to the immediate family. So, Sylvian, John, if you’re watching way, obviously wish you were here being safe in college, so But I’m sure she’s doing much better. Eso way. Look forward to seeing you guys. Uh, Jacob with our oldest. Thanks for coming out. Age was our oldest girls. Thanks for being here. 80 was not going to not be here. She bought that outfit, like at the beginning of the summer or the promotion. And, uh, she was going way even after she had to go back. She was She was She was determined she was going to be here. No way. I could not have been blessed. Really? With better kids on your really, really hope for is just are making things harder. You write on Our kids have never made things. They just awesome. They’ve done the right things, right? Growing into great adults. What? You guys thanks. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And then finally a zoo. Always with Jean, my partner. This just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary two days ago, Theo. So, uh, Jean renewed my contract for another 30 years. Excited about that? The Air Force is quite willing to make that much for a couple more years, but so that’s awesome. Thanks so much. There is no now zero down, right? That I would be here today if it wasn’t Murray got it exactly right. Yesterday, a seven lieutenant you met somebody was able to guide you well beyond what you would have done in your own. As a second lieutenant, I met Jean. She has guided me to be something far beyond what I have ever accomplished on my own. No, As I believe I told this story my to start, not all of you were there. But in general lunch, I mean Bush, when he couldn’t get one star said the airport was trying to find ways pertain Gene. And in the end, the only way they could come up to do that was to provoke me. And I think it was as true now as it was then on. I’m happy to continue to ride those long as they will go on. So I very much thank you. I always think that all of these ceremonies I’m not sure why we don’t have two years. I’m not really sure why we don’t have that. Really. And with that, I know we have another ceremony that I’m pretty excited about it. Well on. So I’m gonna again just thank all of you for being here. Thanks again. We appreciate it. Chatting with intermission. Thank you, Lieutenant General Morris General Bunch, will you please join General Morris Center stage for the playing of the Air Force Song? Ladies and gentlemen, please stand and enjoy listening to the instrumental rendition of the Air Force song by the Air Force Band of Flight. The spirit of freedom due to covert restrictions, please refrain from singing. We ask that you remain in place during departure of the official party.