00:12İzlediğiniz için teşekkür ederim.
00:30What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength, and through unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family.
00:40They said, finish this.
00:44Honor their sacrifice.
00:46Do not waver.
00:47Do not stop until the job is done.
00:52My response along with that of the president was simple.
00:55Of course, we will finish this.
00:57We will honor their sacrifice.
01:00Their sacrifice only steals our commitment.
01:03I wear this bracelet.
01:07Staff Sergeant Jorge Oliveira.
01:10He was one of my sergeants or one of my specialists in Guantanamo Bay.
01:14He deployed later to Afghanistan, where he was killed on 19 October 2011.
01:19Killed 10 years after 9-11, 15 years ago.
01:22He was one of the 1%, the best of America.
01:26Not just a guardsman, but a law enforcement officer back home and a family man.
01:31I remember him every day, just like so many other men and women of our generation and previous generations who
01:37wear bracelets like this.
01:39Just as we will always remember those lost in this conflict.
01:44Their names are now etched into our mission.
01:50Has to be a very fast learning organization.
01:54Early, often, and always.
01:56And so in each case, both at the strategic, operational, and tactical level, we've charged the joint force to look
02:04at themselves and say, what was our plan?
02:07Well, first, did we have a plan?
02:08Yes or no?
02:09The answer is always yes, because we plan for literally everything.
02:12Did we execute our plan?
02:14Yes or no?
02:15If we did, did it work?
02:16If not, why not?
02:17If we didn't execute our plan, but did something better, what's the lesson learned associated with that?
02:24And then how do we quickly capture those lessons after every loss or every engagement and quickly adopt those lessons
02:33and then share them across the entirety of the joint force?
02:38And inside the joint staff, we've tasked our J-7 directorate under the lead of General Lieutenant General Liszewski, a
02:47United States Marine, to be extremely entrepreneurial in harvesting and capturing those lessons in a proactive and not reactive way.
02:55In fact, we've got teammates from the J-7 who are now spread out across the CENTCOM theater, both here
03:03in the States and forward, to ensure that in every opportunity, we do not miss a chance to grab that
03:10lesson and quickly accelerate it into the practice that we adopt inside the joint force.
03:16So that if there's a loss or if there's something that we can learn from, that we learn it not
03:21only in the CENTCOM AOR, but we adapt it across all of the combatant commands, not just into a PACOM.
03:27Thank you for your time.
03:28Thank you.
