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Higher level of readiness. This is an hour. Mr. Secretary d afternoon, nicholas mr. Secretary how are you. Mark hi, nick. Nicholas i want to say what an honor it is for you, ladies and gentlemen. Bably the busiest person on the planet these days. I just want to say to welcome you what an honor it is for us ladies and gentlemen the 27 secretary of defense he has been for the past year and previously secretary of the army. Very distinguished record of Public Service activeduty after graduation from west point for ten years and then the reserve for 11 years. We look forward to a good conversation. I thank you have met our moderator before as a mutual friend of ours. From Bridgewater Associates he also has a distinguished career Public Service as under secretary of treasury and even i Work Together while we were in these two roles also a graduate of west point not the same year of secretary esper but at the same time. I will turn this over to you. Thank you. Secretary esper thank you for j
Very nice to see you its an honor to welcome you to the aspen insecurity for him. Youre probably the busiest person on the planet these days. I just want to say to welcome you what an honor it is for us ladies and gentlemen the 27 secretary of defense he has been for the past year and previously secretary of the army. Very distinguished record of Public Service activeduty after graduation from west point for ten years and then the reserve for 11 years. We look forward to a good conversation. I thank you have met our moderator before as a mutual friend of ours. From Bridgewater Associates he also has a distinguished career Public Service as under secretary of treasury and even i Work Together while we were in these two roles also a graduate of west point not the same year of secretary esper but at the same time. I will turn this over to you. Thank you. Secretary esper thank you for joining us today growing up in western pennsylvania and carry throughout your great career. I dressed appr
Public service activeduty after graduation from west point for ten years and then the reserve for 11 years. We look forward to a good conversation. I thank you have met our moderator before as a mutual friend of ours. From Bridgewater Associates he also has a distinguished Career Public Service as under secretary of treasury and even i Work Together while we were in these two roles also a graduate of west point not the same year of secretary esper but at the same time. I will turn this over to you. Thank you. Secretary esper thank you for joining us today growing up in western pennsylvania and carry throughout your great career. I dressed appropriately so were glad to have you here. Will turn it over to and then have a conversation. Thank you for that. Im glad to see you and that youre both doing well. So to say a few things up front to set the stage when i was confirmed over one year ago with the National Defense strategy. We are now in the era of great competition our chief competito
With the american soldier goes american medicine. Backing him up by his side, with him in his advance. In wartime and in peace, the medical department carries on, fighting disease, healing and rehabilitating the sick and wounded and working to search out disease vectors to prevent, detect and control epidemics. To pursue this mission successfully, the medical department was backed up by a farflung network of laboratories stretching from north to south, from east to west. Clinical, Public Health and Research Laboratories were required everywhere. Diseases new to the army doctor were being encountered, new procedures, methods of treatment and control had to be developed and evaluated. Operation and combat under extreme heat and cold produced problems that were a challenge to the medical department and its laboratories. Behind this vast medical Laboratory Organization which followed the armies to every distant outpost on our fighting front were the Mission Divisions and services of the Su