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- Thanks for joining us.

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I'm Petty Officer, Taylor Moore.

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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy,

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Steven Giordano, traveled to Okinawa

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to speak with Marines and Sailors.

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He answered questions and met with

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Corpsmen and Marines from third medical battalion.

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Master Chief Giordano also had

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three things for sailors and newly promoted Chiefs,

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to remember and work on.

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^- Be authentic. Be who you are. Know who you are.

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^Let that show in every conversation that you have with your

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sailors and when you stand before them.

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Enforce the standards that we ask you to be,

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and I ask you to be competent in all that you do.

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Be a continuous learner every day.

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Finally, I'd ask you to be courageous people.

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Be courageous for our sailors

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and our families who can't work through

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the fear that they have inside of them.

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We need you to be those people for our Navy.

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- Petty Officer Zach Krietzer,

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takes us to fleet activity Sasebo, where select sailors

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are ceremoniously awarded their anchors.

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^- [Zach] Few ranks in the military

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^are quite as coveted or steeped in tradition

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^as the U.S. Navy's Chief Petty Officer.

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- Being a Chief Petty Officer's

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^different from any E-7, in any branch of service.

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^This is a time honored tradition,

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^and it's not just another pay grade,

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it's a brotherhood and sisterhood.

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- [Zach] Receiving their anchors and

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assuming the rank is their final step

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in their journey to becoming deck fleet leaders of the Navy.

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One that they have fought for, for many years.

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^- This is the biggest milestone in a Naval career.

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^For anybody that's out there that's

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^striving and struggling, it took me six times.

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So, don't stop. Keep pushing.

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Keep doing great things in the Navy and you'll get there.

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(bell clangs)

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- More than 30 Chiefs were pinned

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by their families during the ceremony.

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That does it for this newsbreak.

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Thanks for watching