talk about history was important and the significance of what we are doing right here at the us naval academy. in 10 short days, the us naval will celebrate its 169th anniversary. as i have come to know through expense in the fleet and the naval war college and enjoying the naval history magazine, those of us are not willing participants in wanting to history are certainly destined to repeat the failures of the past. there is wonderful connections. there is so much to be learned. as i came here to the naval academy, of course, i wanted to do my own research to remember days here from y 1977, but what is it that academy to naval here in annapolis. and it goes all the way back to where he built the first frigates at the turn-of-the-century. in 1865 first ent declared that there is a need for scholarly interest to develop naval officers. the e had a statement from president back then and it wasn't until 20 years later that it was actually recognized. bad had to eally occur together going. midshipmen bback in the 1800's at ships at mostly sea. but around that time, most teenage boys wanted to bec

and i like it brag, i'll use this opportunity to brag, at the naval academy, i got to graduate in the top 14 of my high school class of the 15 kids that went there. and like woody, i didn't want to milk cows my more or stack hay. so i joined what is a sense of family honor, two, to get away. to expand my horizons. travel the world. go see other things. i very quickly realized that i joined for one thing but i ended up serving for another. and that was for, you know, my battle buddies to my left and right. that was for, as soon as i joined the military, 1999, we didn't have a whole lot of stuff going on back then. but my first duty station was germany. and within the first week of after arriving there in germany, i got shipped off. because my unit was deployed to kosovo. i got to see firsthand what a country looked like with no freedom. a country that we had do military escorts for them to get groceries and fuel so they wouldn't get captured and killed in mass genocide. stuff that i took for granted as a punk 17, 18-year-old kid. stuff that simple that i had seen around the world isn't

in our naval academy, rotc and then we have cyber warriors. but we are putting tablets and smartphones and the use of them back into our basic training. you say, i didn't know you took it away. yeah, we actually do. today, we bring them in and they got, you know, they got the phones and tablets. take that away. write a letter to your mother. that's like giving them a chisel and a hammer and going, okay. and we start that and we say, well, actually we need to give those back, send an e-mail to your mother or text your mother, you know, as the case may be that by the way this is how you need to use this. these are the basics of password protection, of understanding virus protection. don't charge this thing up on a computer on your ship. that's not a good idea. we don't want to share viruses. you know? across that. cyber hygiene. so you got to get that down. and then they say, you know, all the almosts of what you're doing, it's a combat system. that network is a combat system. it exchanges information and the understanding of information dominance. you know, he or she who has the information upper h

naval academy. i spoke earlier. you mentioned cyber. we have to get a baseline. are naval academy rotc and we have cyber warriors but we are putting smartphones and the use of them back into our basic training. you say i didn't know you took it away. e we actually do. we bring them and and i have got their phones in their tablets. we take that all away. that's like giving them a chisel and a hammer and saying okay. we start than we say actually we need to get those back and send an e-mail to your mother or texture mother whatever the case may be. by the way this is how you need to use this. these are the basics of password protection and understanding virus detection. don't charge this thing up on a computer on your ship. that's not a good idea. we don't want to share viruses. you got to get that down. all the elements of what you are doing is the combat system. it exchanges information with the understanding of information dominance. he or she who has the information upper hand definitely has the upper hand and likely it will lead to victory in some ways. so there's a cybereducation and needs to take place. lastly bill moran and i are chief of naval personnel w

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