colonel mike berry is unable to be with us today, but he's represented by brigadier general james benson. please stand up for all your army and air national guard -- [applause] we have command staff and other guardsmen and women until if bat colony as well. it's been -- in the balcony as well. it's been a busy time for the guard, and i think about their service and sacrifice a lot. over the past years, more than 1300 guardsmen and women have been deployed to more than 50 locations around the world. last year we held a deployment if ceremony for more than 150 national guardsmen and women from the 160th engineering company. they recently returned from the military operation in -- [inaudible] again, members of that unit who were deployed are with us today. please join me again in recognizing our citizen-soldiers. they're the very best, and they're up, again, in the balcony. [applause] it's really hard to believe this, but this is my last state of the state address as your governor, and i suspect, as i said earlier, that there are mixed feelings about the applause tata i was receiving -- [la