00:00Very skilled team and you can see kind of the way that this allows us to do it once
00:18we empty some of the torpedo tubes out, then we're able to get some space in here.
00:23This is the most advanced warship in the world, so what they gain is the capability to operate
00:29a nuclear-powered conventionally armed warship, so the things that this brings to our Navy
00:36and to every Navy that has nuclear-powered warships is significant and allows us to operate
00:44with essentially unlimited endurance, just limited by food, and be able to do all the
00:51things that our country asks us to do at any moment, just limited by that one thing of
00:57food.
00:58Opening tube two, stay clear.
01:15The role of the fast attack submarine, the submarine that I operate and I command, is
01:23so dynamic that everything changes on a dime, anything from weather, operations, things
01:30that are happening around the world, and we can answer at a moment's notice.
01:35As soon as my boss says go, we go, and that's something that you don't necessarily get from
01:40conventionally powered ships.
01:43Pause for thought, I think the best way to kind of explain it is, you know, if someone
01:47wakes up and they say, is today the day, we make sure that they say, maybe not.
01:53That's the pause.
01:54The pause is, maybe not, and being able to do that, you know, whenever we need to is
02:00what's important.
02:01That's not just important for the United States, it's important for all of our partners to
02:05work together to get to that, to that moment.
02:07First time?
02:08Well, welcome, very excited to have you all down here, exciting, pretty exciting job and
02:15we're very, very proud of it.
02:18I would say that the Virginia-class is the most capable, most stealthy vessel in the
02:22world, so I don't really need to compare it, you can't compare it.
02:28A lot of that comes from just the amazing design by the engineers who designed everything
02:34to make sense, and then having the outstanding crew with the training processes that are
02:40in place through the training pipelines to ensure that we do operate the ship to the
02:44maximum of its capability.
02:46We are in a time now where we have an opportunity to strengthen the alliance in the Indo-Pecan
02:52region and I think this is going to be a great opportunity and I'm looking forward to it.
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