[applause] did mike leavitt make it? chief petty officer of a coast guard, mike leavitt. [applause] senior enlisted adviser to the army surgeon general and my classmates, donna barack --borok --brock. . sergeant major for the marine headquarters in the marine corps, john gilstaddle. the senior enlisted leader for the national guard bureau chief master sgt denise hall. chief hrrrtrrerrry prince. the command senior enlisted leader of the walter reed national medical center. this is how this is going to work today. i will turn it over to the senior enlisted advisers starting with james roy. then bill will provide three four minutes of briefing on those things that are working on the themes that they helped craft. we will go through the panel and turn it over to q&a after words. with that in mind -- >> good morning. thank you for joining us today. i don't know if you noticed the there are different levels of acceptance. little over here but the one that caught my eye was master chief prince. his wife is over here. welcome. as we always say everybody has to have a wing man or

so mike leavitt may be the valerie jarrett if barack obama is -- if mitt romney is elected. >> closerom inside the state of utah. let's talk about that jobs number from friday. the 69,000 jobs added. how is the romney campaign using that number and the previous two months to push its campaign forward? >> well, for one thing, they have a new slogan. and this is a little cheeky, a little naughty. their new slogan, you saw it behind romney on cnbc on friday, the only interview he did friday. you saw it on his podium in las vegas. putting jobs first. and of course, putting jobs first is a play on the clinton-gore slogan from '92, putting people first. so in addition to new slogans, this is given a buoyancy to the romney campaign we haven't heard. it's also putting pressure on president obama to do a new economic plan. we're told that for the moment, the white house, the obama campaign, are sticking with their to do list for congress. but as we head toward the convention, the fall, pressure to say something new will be intense. >> it was interesting. you heard it again yesterday. the romn

i would like to introduce chief master sergeant of the air force, james roy. [ applause ] did mike leavitter chief -- master chief petty officer of the coast guard mike leavitt. [ applause ] the senior enlisted adviser to the army senior general and my classmate, class 50, of the u.s. army sergeant base academy, u.s. major donna brock. [ applause ] ok. sergeant major for the marine and family programs' division, headquarters marine corps, sergeant manager john gilstrap. [ applause ] the senior enlisted leader for the national guard bureau, chief master sergeant denise jelinski-hall. [ applause ] and last but not least, master chief terry prince. [ applause ] master chief terry prince is the command senior enlisted leader for the walter reid national military medical center. this is how this is going to work today. i'm going to turn it over to the senior enlisted advisers starting with james roy here and then they will provide perhaps three to four-minute briefing on those things they're working on, their themes, policies that perhaps they have helped craft. we'll go through the whole panel