 and challenges that abound everywhere else, because as the Marine Corps has always done, it's a response force for the country globally, as well as all the things that it does within the priorities of the National Defense Strategy. Let me just give you, if I could, a brief word of introduction for General Smith, and then I'm going to ask you to join me in a minute in a round of applause, not only for his service to the country, but also for his personal recovery from an amazing incident last fall where just some great Americans helped him