[applause] please welcome lieutenant-general dana chipman. [applause] >> thank you for allowing me to come down here to escape the sequestered environment of washington d.c. i will not speak any longer than 30 minutes because i would like a chance for you all to ask questions. you can ask me a question about anything. please feel free to ask whatever you like. i would like to tell you first how i came here. in 1970. i came here as a 12-year-old and lived right across the street from furman university on chapel road. i was a seventh grader at duncan chapel elementary school. coming from orange county, california, into a recently desegregating environment here. a different time of year i went to duncan chapel and we had first through fifth grade and the seventh grade, because the sixth graders were bused elsewhere. i saw firsthand for a kid from orange county, california, i saw a little bit of the different environment as greenville was going through the challenges of racial desegregation. that was my first foray into issues. issues in the disc