Navy Officer Candidate School (OCS) 13-22 Graduation Ceremony, July 15, 2022

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Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen on behalf of the commanding officer Officer training Command. Newports Welcome to the graduation ceremony for Officer Candidate School Class 1 3-2 guests are encouraged to take photographs from the seating area at any time during the ceremony except during the playing of the national anthem. The order of events for today’s ceremony is as follows. At 1300 Captain Alcorn, United States Navy, Commanding Officer of Officer Training Command, Newports and Rear Admiral Maclean, United States Navy. The guest of honor for today’s ceremony will arrive, guests will be asked to rise for the arrival of the official party and remain standing for the playing of the national anthem and invocation. The commanding officer and guest of honor will address the graduating class and administer the oath of office. The graduates will then be recognized through the presentation of their commission by the commanding officer and the guest of honor guests will be asked to rise for the playing of the service songs and final dismissal. Officer training Command. Newports arriving Commander, Naval surface force Atlantic arriving. Mhm. Mhm. And Yeah. Mhm. Thanks. Yeah. Mhm mm. Yeah mm. Mhm. Ladies and gentlemen chaplain. Foss not will now offer the invocation. Let us pray eternal Father Strong to save you have called us out upon the waves united as one body and service to our country. We are warriors of the sea and protectors of our American way of Les May. We never forget. We are called to lead and serve. We thank you for our friends and families that have supported us through this journey. Much will be demanded of them in the future. Lord blessed them with faith. Hope and love protect us as we travel to home or to a new duty station. Go before us and may we all do justice. Love mercy and walk humbly with our God. We pray this in your eternal name. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, Captain Everette Alcorn, Officer Training Command Newports, Ladies and gentlemen, Rear Admiral Maclean, Rear Admiral Watkins, Distinguished guests, Officer Training Command Newport’s Staff family members and friends. And most importantly, soon to be commissioned officers of Class 1 3 – two. Good afternoon. I’m excited to welcome 60 of our newest graduates into one of the most challenging and rewarding careers that of naval officer to the family and friends joining us. I applaud you for the great work you’ve done preparing these impressive leaders prior to their arrival here. I appreciate the support you have given them. It’s enabled them to make sound choices and we are grateful to these graduates for their choice to serve. We thank you for your continued support to the graduates here today as commanding Officers, Officer Training, Command Newports. I’m proud of all of you. You had many other options besides volunteering to serve your country yet. You chose this path. I thank you for your patriotism and your willingness to serve. I assure you that a life of service holds rewards and will bring you great fulfillment. You have completed rigorous military academic and physical training. You overcame obstacles. Nothing was handed to you except for opportunity. You seized that opportunity to make something more of yourself, to learn to grow and to lead today. You reap its rewards. I congratulate each and every one of you for this significant and memorable achievement. It’s now time to embrace a new opportunity to lead sailors in the fleet In the years ahead, your knowledge, leadership skills will be tested. Often you’ll be standing watch and working alongside fellow officers and sailors around the world around the clock know that what you’re doing is significant and meaningful work for our country. Work hard, learn the warfare, professional skills of your designator, strive to be the best and give your country your best efforts because nothing else will suffice. The nation and the Navy expect the best from you. The highest standards of personal and professional conduct. Excellence in leadership and the strict adherence to the Navy’s core values, honor, courage and commitment. I appalled your accomplishments and perseverance. You’re about to embark upon a great adventure which I hope you find both professional success and personal fulfillment. It will be like any, unlike any other job you have ever or will ever have. Regardless of how long you serve our nation, it will assuredly be a time in your life upon which you will look back with much pride and satisfaction. Congratulations to each and every one of you. I wish you fair winds and following seas. It’s now my privilege this morning to introduce you to our guest of honor, Rear Admiral Brendan Mclean, Naval Surface Forces Atlantic Admiral Maclean is a 1990 graduate of the US Naval Academy with a bachelor’s degree in history. He earned his master’s degree in Public Administration from Troy University and graduated with highest distinction from the Naval War College with a master’s degree in National Security Affairs. He completed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar 21 enable operational planning course at sea. He served aboard the USS Lewis B puller, USS Vicksburg, USS moose burger, two story squadron 14 and USS Simpson While in command of USS Carney DDG 60 for his ship, won the battle Lee and the Battenberg Cup deployed with Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group to US fifth Fleet in major command. He served as a commodore desire in 50 and commanded Task Force 55 Coalition Task Force 152, U. S. Fifth Fleet. As a flag officer. He led Navy recruiting command and carrier strike group 10 ashore. He served on the staff of the U. S. Naval Academy. The active in three and 5 staff and as Chief of Staff, Naval Surface for specific overseas. He’s deployed to Iraq with the U. S. Army’s three 54th Civil Affairs Brigade. He ran the Israel desk at the J. Five of the US European command and directed the U. S. Sixth Fleet Maritime Operations Center. His leadership is essential to the continued success of the world’s greatest navy And we’re truly fortunate to have him here with us today to share his thoughts. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our guest of honor today, the 60th Commander of Naval Surface Force Atlantic, Rear Admiral Brendan Mclean. Yeah, Good afternoon O. c. s. Class 13 – two. I am proud to speak to you at this momentous event and to congratulate you on your graduation from officer candidate school. This is one of those moments that you will remember for the rest of your lives and to clarify that point. I mean you’ll remember this moment. You won’t remember me. I don’t remember the C. O. But you’ll remember this beautiful day, your family’s being here. It is truly momentous and I congratulate before we get started, I’d like to recognize our distinguished guests. Rodman Watkins, his father, Captain Watkins. And within some Watkins here, that’s three generations of Watkins. That is awesome. That is three generations of the long blue line. I’ll be talking about in a few minutes. My hat’s off to you sirs. Great to have you here. I’d also like to uh welcome captain Bisset Captain Clemens, Captain Lopez, Captain Goldman and Colonel Travis and all uniform members here today. Thank you very much for your service and thank you very much for being here. Today’s class has 23 surface warfare officers to Naval flight officers, 14 Supply Corps officers. One Civil Engineering corps officer, one submarine warfare officer, to Intelligence Warfare Officers, three Information Warfare Officers. Six information professionals, One Aviation Maintenance Duty Officer for Public Affairs Officers and three Special Warfare Officers. Each of you has a vital role to play in our Navy. How large that role will be? Depends on you, depends on your service to our nation and our Navy and depends on how hard you will work to perfect your craft as professionals. How large your role will be is in your head, your influence and your service reputation will be known throughout the fleet. If you work hard and you put service to your Navy and your command and your shipmates above your own. No matter where you end up serving, your goal should be the same strive for personal and professional excellence to defend our great nation, our Navy and our ship. You have voluntarily joined a select group, a long blue line stretching back 247 years to commodore john Barry the first officer commissioned in the U. S. Navy and honored for it with the second ship in the Arleigh burke class of destroyers. Being named for by joining that line, you have assumed a great deal of responsibility, responsibility to those who preceded you to your shipmates whom you are now joining and to our great nation. Chief among these responsibilities, you assume as naval officers is the duty to protect our freedoms which we Americans hold dear and set us apart from the rest of the world as a shining city on the hill. In a few moments, you will take the oath of office which states in part, I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies. This oath is the same for all us military officers. Our first and our most important goal is to protect the constitution and the freedoms enshrined in it as our Chief of Naval operations. Admiral guild a told sailors and a reenlistment aboard USS porter in the Baltic Just a few weeks ago, we are the only military in the world that takes an oath to an idea, not a king, not a president, not a political party, not to a Cno or even to the Navy, but to the Constitution of the United States. Why is that important? You’ve agreed to take a vow that is as powerful as a marriage vow and you will put your life on the line for this idea that everyone in our country has the same rights, the same shot at prosperity. And it doesn’t matter what your religion is, what your political party is, what ethnicity you have, whom you love. None of that matters under the constitution. Everyone has the same rights and entitlement to life. Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That’s the idea of democracy that we the United States constitution is the source and bedrock of all the laws that we follow and is distinct among the founding documents and legal codes of the world. It delineates what freedoms are. People have restricting government power rather than the power of the people. The constitutionalists, inalienable rights and guarantees us that and and the guarantees that make us a beacon of hope for the people of the world. We as officers are concerned with protecting the constitution and the freedom it guarantees to our citizens. We you and I are that guarantee our service to our navy is that guarantee? It is only by taking this responsibility and obligation literally deathly serious. Can this preservation of freedom’s be 100% guarantee you have volunteered to serve? And that service comes with hard work, responsibility, obligation but not freedom. It’s counterintuitive. In order to guarantee the freedoms of our citizens. We give a lot of our own freedoms up. And in return for giving those up, we received the priceless gift of having comradeship with our shipmates adventures at sea. And if we work hard the satisfaction of a job well done and the near impossible accomplished. There are people organizations and nations now that wish to see our great American experiment come to an end or at least restrict its influence around the world. It is through your voluntary sacrifice and similar millions of American sailors, soldiers, airmen and marines who have gone before us that the promise of America and those unique freedoms have been secured. Somebody has to step up to defend those freedoms or else they will cease to exist. And in the words of First Lieutenant Travis Manion, a proud marine who died in combat during Operation Iraqi. Freedom if not me, then who it is now your turn to ensure the continuation of our freedom for generations to come. You have answered the call and I am proud of you Today. Our nation faces challenges greater than at any time of my 32 years in the Navy. We are now in an era of strategic competition with adversaries who directly challenge our nation’s values, who threaten the freedom of citizens around the world. The aim of these adversaries is to reshape the world and its rules set to something that better suits them and their corrupt purposes with near peer threats. In a resurgent Russia and a rising china along with the ever present threats from Iran and north Korea, the navy will be called upon maybe even right now to go into harm’s way. I want you to anchor on the implications of that you are about to make when you’re when you take your oath that you will be going into harm’s way. According to the Department of Veteran Affairs at least 1,190,085 Americans have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend our freedom. Some of you here here will see combat some of you will pay the ultimate sacrifice. But that is exactly what you’re signing up to do. As you are leaders answering the call of our nation. The next ship, the next submarine, the next seal platoon, the next aircraft carrier. Leaders of all communities in the fleet are sitting in this crowd and we need each one by joining our long blue line. You are not simply gaining a job, but you are entering a profession, a profession of arms, the core characteristics or a profession. Our responsibility and expertise. As naval officers. We must embody these characteristics and in doing so, we will take care of our people. Professions are by necessity subject to strict codes of conduct. Examples include the Hippocratic oath doctors take or the bar, that attorneys in the legal profession abide by based on the responsibilities that you will be entrusted with. You two are bound by the code of ethics and professional standards, But unlike other professions, the level of responsibility in the profession of arms is much greater. You are entrusted by our society with the lives of their sons and daughters and with the very defense of our nation itself. You are trusted with millions of taxpayers’ dollars of equipment. You will be sent to the fight. Lead settlers into combat and kill the enemy. Not only are American lives on the line, but the very ideals and existence of our nation. That is what sets you apart. That is the reason that each of you here must work on improving yourselves as professionals every day. You are part of the less than 1% who have volunteered to take up arms in defense of our United States. Consequently, you are bound by a stricter set of laws, the uniform code of military justice. And you serve a higher calling our oath of office and you will be expertly trained in your fields. You will sacrifice in ways that your peers from college or high school will not. And because the stakes are so high and your responsibility is so great, you must become experts in every sense of the word. It is therefore incumbent upon each officer to be ready for the many challenges our nation currently faces and the challenges that still remain enforcing and ready. You will be. The Navy has expended incredible effort in creating a corps of officers that is more prepared than at any point in American history. I’ve seen it myself across all officer communities and throughout all of our wardrobes. We are training the very best junior officers in our services history. We have the most talented mid-grade officers serving as department heads and you can be confident. Your commanding officers have been tested rigorously and meticulously selected and are the peak performers. You expect to have at the helm of our ships, submarines, squadrons and comm. The reason for this emphasis on excellence is that as professionals, you must be experts in your field to meet the responsibilities that you have accepted. I’m exceptionally proud of the training curriculum. Each one of you will go through on the way to your first command. The surface warfare community has expanded, expanded our training and made sure that we are producing the highest caliber officers of our shows. Our aviators remain the best in the world. Yes, better even than the air force And our next generation fighter F- 35 lightning squadrons. Now completing successful operational employment of border carriers are special forces, maintain the distinction as the most effective in the world. Our nuclear swallows and submarine officers have unparalleled training and success with our nuclear program, serving as the global benchmark for technical expertise and professionalism. But before any of this training is given, one must be first selected and that is where we are truly succeeding. The officers we have chosen for a session into the navy are better than at any point in history and you should be very proud of. Despite the great training, each community in our profession receives you, each one of you must make efforts on your own time to continue to learn. Do not rest on your laurels. This is what sets you apart from the rest of society. You must better yourself not only during training while at your command, but also on your own. Thus continued education, especially through personal study is what defines us as professionals on this former Secretary of defense and centcom Commander Jim Mattis said Reading is an honor and a gift from a warrior or historian who a decade or 1000 years ago. Set aside time to write And we have been fighting on this planet for 10,000 years. It would be idiotic and unethical not to take advantage of this accumulated experience. If you haven’t read hundreds of books by the time you take command, you will be functionally illiterate, you will be incompetent because your personal experience will not be enough or deep enough or broad enough to sustain you. Any commander who claims he is too busy to read is going to fill body bags with his troops as he learns the hard way the consequences of incompetence in battle. Our final history teaches us that we face nothing new under the sun. So read while reading is a necessity. So is communication true. Professional desires to desire to communicate what they have learned with each other and to share their experiences, techniques and knowledge. If you learn something from a book or from an experience share it. It could be as simple as a conversation with another junior officer or as robust as an article and Naval Institute’s proceeding. While competition is encouraged that competition must be healthy, not corrosive, share lessons learned from events you participate in or advice on topics like physical fitness or professional reading, help each other grow stronger and move our profession forward as iron sharpens iron. So one person sharpens another on leading sailors in our profession. The legendary Admiral Arleigh Burke said. There is one element in the profession of arms that transcends all others and importance. This is the human element. No matter what the weapons of the future may be, No matter how they are to be employed in war or international diplomacy, man will still be the most important factor for naval operations. This is why it is so important that under the greatest pressure of our continuing need to develop the finest aircraft, the most modern submarines and the most far ranging carriers and the most complex nuclear weapons we must keep uppermost in mind that leadership remains our momentous task. So he said this back in the 50s, but it is still very true today. What Admiral Brooke was describing is known as servant leadership as professional naval officers. You must be, above all else. A servant leader. Being a servant leader means putting the well-being of your sailors and our service ahead of yourself, Robert K. Greenleaf, the author of the servant as leader wrote the servant leader is a servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve And serve 1st. Then conscious choice brings one. The aspiration to lead be a servant leader by doing the little things. Leadership is not always grandiose gestures or heroic actions. You can embody the ideals of servant leadership by playing active roles in your sailors lives where needed and appropriate understanding their jobs and understanding that their needs are met, plan their work efficiently and give them the resources they need to accomplish the mission. Take a personal interest in their work and lives and prove through your actions that you are serving them as as their leader. Not the other way around. Often. It is as simple as remembering someone’s grandparents is sick checking in on them for asking about your sailors hobbies and interests. It’s staying late to write up the package, nominating your sailor for sailor of the Year or taking the time to read a technical manual. So you can have an intelligent conversation about the project. They’re working on seek out opportunities to take burdens from your sailors through great management and leadership. Even if it means spending extra time and making your life more difficult as you are our nation’s next generation of leaders and your sailors will look to you for guidance, encouragement and direction our sailors are the most intelligent, the best trained and best equipped in the world. They will impress you every day with their ingenuity and grit and it is an honor to get to leave. It is up to you to leverage the talents of your sailors as they are. Our advantage in this era of strategic competition. Leadership is a privilege and it is a responsibility. It is your duty to help those whom you serve, reach their maximum potential because our sailors are our greatest advantage. They are why we will win this era of strategic competition. So do not let a day go by where you fail to help your sales grow as people as professionals, put their well-being ahead of your own and embody certain servant leadership by doing this. You are fulfilling your duty as an officer by strengthening our service, which in turn will accomplish the mission of defending our freedom by embodying professionalism, applying the lessons that you’ve learned here at and by bringing the values, your communities of support imbue in you to your commands. You will succeed in this profession. Each of you has a person who is proud of you today for embarking on the challenge of being an officer. So make them proud every day through your conduct. The bottom line is that the future is bright across our Navy. I feel great about the direction that we are heading and you should too. The next few years will be the most challenging and rewarding of your life In the course of your career. Whether it’s 35 or five, you will make mistakes, It is key to acknowledge and correct them, especially as professional. We do not have a zero defect mentality in the navy, but we do not accept those who do not put the effort in improving their profession. Constant improvement is the standard improvement of yourself, your teams and your service be biased towards action and command. All that is within your influence. Hold your sailors and yourself accountable and know your job, become the expert in your realm and work to improve. Starting with yourself and expanding to your entire command. That is your sacred duty. Leave this Navy better than you found it to ensure the freedom of our future generation of Americans. And I know you will thank you for your dedication, your willingness to serve and to your families and your communities for supporting you. In this journey, I look forward to fighting and winning with you. Thank God bless you May God bless America. Thanks. The graduating class will now receive the oath of office. Would all military personnel in uniform? Please come to the position of attention. Class 1 3 Tag to to raise your right hand. I state your full name. Having been appointed an incident in the United States Navy. Do hereby accept such appointment and do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Okay that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God congratulations. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. The distinguished graduates assembled will now be recognized by the commanding officer for their achievements while undergoing training while here at officer training Command. Newports Ensign Kim has been awarded the lieutenant Thomas EDI Award for achieving the highest average in academics, military training and physical fitness. While attending officer candidate school. Ensign Kim is a public affairs officer and assigned to the USS Eisenhower in Norfolk Virginia. And some bar has been awarded the Rear Admiral Stephen Be lucy award for obtaining the highest academic average while attending officer candidate school. Ensign Bar is an information professional officer assigned to the informational professional basic course in Virginia beach Virginia and Cinnabar is a distinguished naval graduate and some breeze has been awarded the chapel clarity USMC physical fitness award for obtaining the highest overall grade in physical fitness while attending officer candidate school and some breezes. A supply corps officer. And assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island and saint Casper has also been awarded the Chapel clarity USMC Physical fitness Award for obtaining the highest overall grade and physical fitness. While attending officer candidate school and ST Casper is a supply court officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island. And soon our CEO has been awarded the Commander Jack Levitt Award, having been chosen by his peers as the candidate who most inspired the class and personifies the highest standards of personal example sound management practice and moral responsibility, Anton rco is a naval flight officer and assigned to the Naval introductory flight evaluation in Pensacola Florida. We will now recognize the remaining graduates and internet and Cintron ETRA is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Halsey in san Diego California and said Weimer is a supply corps officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island. And tom keen is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Winston s Churchill in Mayport Florida and some white is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Comstock in san Diego California and Saint Candle is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS john S. McCain in Everett Washington Hansen cottages a supply corps officer and assigned to the Naval Supply of course School in Newport Rhode island. And Sam Harris is a supply Corps officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island. Instant Shield is a supply corps officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island. And some MENSA is an aerospace maintenance duty officer and assigned to the aviation maintenance officer course in Milton Florida antenna free is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Tulsa in san Diego California and Sinatra poo is a supply corps officer and assigned to the Naval supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island and sent Akerson is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS New Orleans in Sasebo. Japan Hansen is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Bataan in Norfolk Virginia and Sam Bennett is an information professional officer assigned to the Informational Professional Basic course in Virginia beach Virginia and some Bowen is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Oscar Austin in Norfolk Virginia instant Bradford is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Lake Erie in san Diego California. Hansen Brassard is a supply officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island and send Burkett is a public affairs officer and assigned to the Public Affairs and Communications Strategy qualification course at Fort Meade Maryland and ST Cruz is a service warfare officer and assigned to the U. S. Has chosen in Everett Washington and ST culvert is a public affairs officer and assigned to the Public Affairs and Communications Strategy Qualification course at Fort Meade Maryland. Ensign Cups as a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS preval in san Diego California and ST Curtis is a public affairs officer and assigned to the Public Affairs and Communication Strategy Qualification course at Fort Meade Maryland and sin dodge is a cryptologic warfare officer and assigned to the Information warfare training. Command in Virginia beach Virginia. Anson. Eggert is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS New York and new in Norfolk Virginia and sent Eggert is a distinguished naval graduate and some folks is a information professional officer assigned to the Informational Professional Basic course in Virginia beach Virginia. And some folks a is a distinguished naval graduate and ST granger is a cryptologic warfare officer and assigned to the Information Warfare Training Command in Virginia Beach Virginia. Ensign Hunt is a civil Engineer corps officer and assigned to the Civil Engineering Corps Officer School, import wine in California. And ST Jackson is an intelligence officer and assigned to the intelligence officer basic course in Dam Neck Virginia. And ST Jackson is a distinguished Naval graduate and ST Jimenez Monceau is a submarine warfare officer and assigned to the nuclear power School in Goose Creek south Carolina. And ST Johnson is an information professional officer and assigned to the Information professional basic course in Virginia beach Virginia. And some jury is a supply court officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island. Ensign Kim is a supply corps officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island and then Lasso is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Donald cook in Mayport Florida and Blue is a supply corps officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island and symmetrical is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS san Diego in san Diego California. And so Martinez is an information professional officer and assigned to the informational basic course in Virginia beach Virginia and so McGahee is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS McCampbell in Everett Washington. And ST Nichols is a supply corps officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island instant paczynski is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Mesa Verde in Norfolk Virginia. And since Kelly is an intelligence officer and assigned to the intelligence officer basic course in Dam neck Virginia. And since Kelly is a distinguished naval graduate. And since stanhope is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS frank E. Petersen and Pearl harbor Hawaii and Sam barna is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS carl Levin in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Anson barna is a distinguished naval graduate and since stop is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Mesa Verde in Norfolk Virginia. And since Summers is a supply corps officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island. And since Semillon is a supply corps officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island. Hansen Trip is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Russell in san Diego California Ensign Underwood is a student Naval aviator and assigned to the Naval introductory flight evaluation in Pensacola Florida and Valencia is a surface warfare officer, engineering duty officer and assigned to the USS chung kun in Pearl harbor Hawaii and ST van is a service warfare officer and assigned to the USS boxer in san Diego California and invest Eliza surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS san Jacinto in san Diego California. And since Watkins is an information professional officer and assigned to the Information Professional basic course in Virginia Beach Virginia. Ensign Watson is the supply corps officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island. Hansen White is a Supply corps. Often assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island. Ensign Willis is a surface warfare officer and assigned to the USS Oak Hill in Virginia beach Virginia. And who is the Supply Corps officer and assigned to the Naval Supply Corps School in Newport Rhode island. Ladies and Gentlemen, Please join me in recognizing the United States Navy’s newest 10cent’s. Yeah, we will now conclude the ceremony. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the playing of the service songs and final dismissal. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your places until after the graduating class has taken their class photo and remember the only authorized visitor locations. R. K. Hall and Nimitz, P. T. Field. Oh