Donald J. Trump

But once they start, you know, really learning their jobs and start making rank, you know, third-class petty officers, second-class petty officer, they enter the world of the journeyman, and then we start teaching them leadership.

And it's really, it's a...

algorithm that has been so successful for all these years because we give these sailors every opportunity to crush any limitations that they have.

And not every ship is like that.

If you were to look at, say, the old Soviet system, they didn't really get into the journeyman and master.

Officers did all of the tricky maintenance and that.

And we value our people, and this is why a second-class petty officer can get down there and fix some gear that a lot of other navies would have to call technical experts to fly in and fix.

But yet our people can do that.

The greatest part of today's exhibition was

demonstrating just how many and how wonderful our sailors are that can pull off all of those multi-tasks.

Okay, we're waiting for it.

We're going to go to Steve Gruber now on the riser.

Thank you, Admiral Masso.

You guys are going to stick around.

Presidents, do back off of the carrier, the strike group, back to Norfolk Naval Station, back to the Truman.

Going to address the sailors and family members there.

Steve Gruber, you're on the riser.

What do you got for us, brother?

It's a packed house, and I can tell you about the enthusiasm here.

I took the time to speak to some of these sailors, the men and women of the United States Navy today, 2025.