Team,
Attached is my US Fleet Forces Commander's Guidance. I have spent the first six months of my tour since taking command listening, looking and learning about the conditions of our Fleet, the morale and capabilities of our people and the operational demands on our force.
My Guidance reflects what I have learned and how we must proceed to ensure we continue to deliver forces ready for tasking today and sustain today's Fleet into the future.
Our ability to respond on no-notice to the significant demands of the Haitian relief effort, Operation Unified Response, while continuing to meet the growing demands of Operation Enduring Freedom and maintaining our global presence, speaks to the current overall readiness of our Fleet and the extraordinary capabilities of our people.
Sustaining that readiness and those capabilities, while also dealing with our known wholeness gaps in the force, in an environment characterized by increasing demand for our forces and increasing pressure on the resources we receive to operate, train and maintain the Fleet is the primary challenge we face.
Our predecessors turned over to us a Navy that is global, inherently expeditionary and routinely forward-deployed - the essential characteristics of the Navy we must have to support the tenets of our Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower.
Now we have the watch - it's up to us to balance the demands on the Fleet with our resources to ensure that we remain a READY, RESPONSIVE and RELEVANT force, that our units deploy whole and fully capable of accomplishing their assigned missions and that our people - our Sailors and Navy civilians - are confident in their abilities, professional in their performance and steadfast in the face of whatever comes their way.
I have great confidence in you and in the Sailors and Navy civilians we're honored to lead - there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that we can meet the challenges we've been given during this time of conflict in which we are truly privileged to serve. JCHjr
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