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- Thank you very much for
watching this presentation.

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I want to give a big shout out

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to all the sailors that
were behind the scene

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and the sailors that dedicated their time

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to present you naval
history and naval heritage.

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Here today with me we have
two chief petty officers

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from the USS Constitution Chief Mess,

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BMC James Gainey and MCC Elliott Fabrizio,

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and they gonna give you a
little bit of their perspective

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of what Navy Heritage Weeks is all about.

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- Thank you, master chief.

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My name is BMC James Gainey

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and I'm the deck department
head here at USS Constitution,

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and what Heritage Weeks means to me

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is that it's the thing
that keeps me grounded

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to continue to push forward.

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Thinking back about the days of sail

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and how much effort and
fortitude that it took for us

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to make things happen on board this ship

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so that we could have the Navy
that we currently have today.

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When they fired those canons,

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it wasn't like they just fired one cannon

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and then they were done.

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They would refire those cannons

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sometimes 50 or 100 times during battle.

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When we needed to go somewhere.

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It would take hours to
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and change the direction of the ship

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to get where we needed to go,

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where nowadays all we have
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and come up in speed on a throttle.

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Everything is a lot simpler
than it was back then.

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So I really am able to
appreciate everything that,

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that we went through in the
1800s and what we have now.

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- Hello, I'm Chief Petty
Officer Elliott Fabrizio.

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I'm the public affairs officer
here aboard USS Constitution.

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The series of videos that you watched

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guide you through some
of the major evolutions

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and training stations that we run

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as part of Chief Petty
Officer Heritage Weeks here.

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But what do you really
design to get out of this?

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Those stations should teach you a lot

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about the history of this ship,

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the history of our early Navy,

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but that's not really what you get

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out of Chief Petty Officer Heritage Weeks.

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I went through

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Chief Petty Officer
Heritage Weeks here in 2016.

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For me,

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some of the most important
things that you get out of this

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were connecting with this ship

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and the awe that it inspires
by just being on its decks.

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The chiefs that get to come
out here for Heritage Weeks,

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they live and these
sleep on Old Ironsides,

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they're sleeping on the deck of that ship,

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and the sense of what it
means to be a part of the Navy

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and a part of something
bigger than yourself

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sinks in in those kinds of moments.

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You realize that being a part of

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something bigger than yourself

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is not about being a part
of a large organization

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like the Navy.

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It's about being part of a heritage,

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a heritage that goes back
in time and forward in time,

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and this is where it began.

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It's also about the
connections that you make.

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The heritage training we do
with the pikes, the guns,

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that's a context and a background.

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But we bring 100 chief selects

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and over 30 chiefs, senior chiefs,

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and master chiefs out there to mentor

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and have those one-on-one
direct leadership conversations

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that are unforgettable.

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And there isn't a better background

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or context for that to
happen in the entire Navy

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than Old Ironsides right here.

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And that's what Chief Petty
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is able to do.

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During my season I was also able to get

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a small piece of USS Constitution wood

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that I was able to put in my vessel,

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and my entire mess got a little piece

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and we shared it amongst ourselves.

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And it is so meaningful to us,

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even though it was just a piece of wood,

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that we were able to keep that connection

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to the start of our Navy.

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And that is the real meaning

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of what Heritage Weeks is all about.

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The videos that you're
watching are awesome.

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Our sailors, they learned so
much about the ship's history

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and they're able to present that

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and we hope you get a lot out of that.

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But in the future,

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if you have a chance to come
out to Chief Heritage Weeks

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or visit this ship,

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whether you're coming as a sponsor

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or you're encouraging

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the chief selects in your
future messes to come out,

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there is so much more to Chief
Petty Officer Heritage Weeks

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here on Old Ironsides

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then just those little bits of the history

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that we're able to share
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It runs much deeper.

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But we do encourage you to
use these videos as a chance

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to share those ongoing

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and share them with future
people that might be selected

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to come to Heritage Weeks in the future

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as a way for them to get exposed

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to what they're gonna be doing out here

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so that when the time comes

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they can focus on that leadership
and mentorship training

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one-on-one within the chief's
mess here on Old Ironsides.

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I also encourage anyone
watching these videos

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to reach back out to the ship.

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By virtue of what we've
done through the coronavirus

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and the way we've tried to pivot
our outreach to be virtual,

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we are very engaged.

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So if you and your mess
want to talk to us,

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ask us questions, send
us your reflections,

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we highly encourage that.

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We have a lot of social media properties,

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we're very active, we will respond.

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We have emails on those platforms.

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So continue to be the keepers
of our Navy's heritage.

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And thank you so much for participating

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in Heritage Weeks Online.

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- Thank you, brothers.

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Make no mistake.

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We can never replicate your feelings

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of being on board this ship on
a live, every day situations.

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But with this videos,
with this presentation,

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what we can do is lay the foundation.

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So hopefully one day our goal is

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to every single one of you,

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whether you are a mentor

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or whether you are visiting
Boston, Massachusetts,

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you can come on board and
feel the same feelings

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that we get when we do
this Heritage Weeks.

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Remember, heritage is what define us.

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We are the best Navy in the world

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because of ships like USS Constitution.

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We are the best chief mess,

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the best leaders in the world

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because of leaders that served
on board USS Constitution.

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So this is what we are trying to give you,

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this is what we're trying to represent

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with this Heritage Weeks Online.

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Brothers and sisters,

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thank you so much again for watching.

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Hopefully you get something from it,

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and we cannot wait to hear your comments,

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We cannot wait for you to contact us,

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and hopefully we can give you
the live experience one day.

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Thank you very much.

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Have a great season.

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I'll see you around in the fleet.