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Ambassador Crowley.
Now, Ambassador Crowley has not only had a protocol for the president, the vice president, and the secretary of state, but also as a side deal is running America 250.
Captain Fennell, give me your thoughts on what you've seen so far in the naval exercise.
We're going to cut back to the stage as soon as we have some more speakers.
Your thoughts so far on what you've seen, sir?
Well, the air power demonstration and the carrier strike group operations writ large reminded me of, you know, my time in the fleet.
And I think one aspect that folks would be interested to know about is that the strike planning that goes on on board the carrier and that we do cyclical flight operations.
So they'll start flying, say, at noon and they'll fly and launch two dozen aircraft and they'll recover them in an hour and a half or two hours later.
And they'll do that cycle again and they'll do up to 10 or 12 cycles a day, normally during a deployment on an average flight day.
So that's, you know, several over 100 planes, more than 100 planes will be launched throughout the day, closer to 200.
And that kind of sustained carrier operations is something that still no one can do like we can.
And I think that's really the power of the Navy and our naval air wings and our carrier strike groups and the associated platforms is that we can bring sustained operations over a long duration.
In fact, we've tested it.
You can go for about four days straight running 24-7 cyclical carrier flight operations.
And then all of a sudden, the equipment doesn't break down, but the people do.
They need a rest.
And that's why when we have multiple carriers, one carrier will be up on the line and another carrier may be back resting for a day or two, and then they'll switch in and out.
And that gives us really even a much more power.
So that's the kind of power that we have in our Navy.
Uh, and those cyclical operations where they're planning their flight operations, where they're going to fly, what targets are going to strike.