General Alexis Gregory Grinkovich

No, no.

It's actually been truly a fantastic six months.

One of the best jobs that exists on the planet, in my view, and I've truly enjoyed it.

My priorities have been pretty consistent.

I've got several of them.

One of us, of course, I'm focused on taking care of our people, your people, that you contribute to the Alliance and to our missions.

They are the bread and butter of what we do every single day.

And Michael Klassen and I actually got an opportunity to go see some of the Swedish troops yesterday.

Swedish Marines who, I mean, some of the most impressive young women and men that I've seen in uniform.

throughout my almost 33 years of service.

You all ought to be incredibly proud of what those young people are doing for your country and for the Alliance.

We need to take care of them, we need to focus on them, get them the equipment and the capabilities that they need.

My second focus is warfighting readiness.

And the alliance is ready to fight tonight, but we need to continue to hone our readiness and be more and more ready every single day.

That's headquarters readiness, making sure we have the processes and capabilities in place to do the things we need to do.

It's also individual unit level readiness.

Michael's focused on that here in Sweden, all of the chiefs of defense are, and I am as well.

And it's by being ready that we continue to maintain that deterrence that I talked about.

China continues to fund Putin's war machine.

Iran continues to supply technology and weapons.