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Yeah . Yeah .

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Katie is a unique environment .

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Everybody goes to work somewhere . A

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lot of people obviously in the navy

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work on ships . Those of us have to go

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to building . We may be the only ones

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that get to say we go to work in a cave

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every day originally built by the

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Imperial Japanese Navy . And then uh ,

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since the World War two Has been

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operating in some sense in sort by the

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US Navy . And so there's a sense of

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heritage and uh respect we have every

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day as we come in here . It doesn't run

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15 itself though actually didn't shift

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out to Japan until October of 1971 . Uh ,

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This is actually our 50th year of , of

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being a four deployed destroyer

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squadron . We participated in

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Vietnam , the Persian gulf war as well

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as operations enduring freedom . Uh ,

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Iraqi Freedom Deshaun Fifteen's current

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mission is responsible for the eight

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destroyers that are assigned to us .

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We're generating combat readiness in

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order to provide the fleet commander

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ships available to meet missions . Were

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also the theater's surface warfare

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Commander for seventh Fleet are

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operational hat we're employing not

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only are eight destroyers but also

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other ships within the region to uh ,

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to meet seventh fleet requirements

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supporting the national interests of

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America as well as the interests of our

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allies , our partners . I don't see any

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reason why we won't be here for another

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50 years . I'm

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proud to command towards Quadrant 15

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and uh Task Force 71 the ships and

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sailors that operate here now and all

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those that have gone before us , a set

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of standard that is extremely high uh

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and how we operate uh internally within

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the U . S . Navy , but also how we

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operate and integrate with our allies

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and partners that couldn't be more

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proud of the work they've done and the

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work that they're doing .