said the station in northeastern afghanistan, a place called asmara nocona province right on the pakistan border. this is where i'm stationed with lieutenant johnson and doc layton. not doc layton was a navy corpsman, but if anyone knows of a navy corpsman committeemen assaulting marine saucon had the marine from here on out. [applause] subpart of my opportunities came to meet these guys and develop our team because this is a group of guys i learned to call my brothers. what advice teams are put together, the brass takes different skill sets, ranks and advisories that are never ever ask about personalities or anything like that. definitely not a love connection. they just push them in there and expect you to because johnson and layton, these guys are different from me. the family and countrymen in the group, so i didn't really care. i was just so excited at the thought of me getting to go to afghanistan that it didn't really matter to me. what i learned more and more every single day is these guys are the most important people in my life. each of us share the responsibility to take care o