I hope you all continue to enjoy the posts, pictures and stories about your Sailors.  We are currently operating in the international waters of the South China Sea where we have operated in the past and will continue to operate in the future working on nurturing and improving interoperability and understanding between all of our partner countries throughout the US 7th Fleet Area of Responsibility.  Your Sailors professionalism, maturity and dedication to supporting the basic freedoms we hold so dear continue to remain the reason we are so successful.  They continue to represent each of you during every engagement with every country.  Their excellence continues to be directly attributable to your constant and unwavering support from both our homes in Yokosuka, Japan and your hometowns scattered throughout the United States. 
Thank you... I remain truly humbled to watch them do all things honorable and glorious day in and day out.  I am proud to call them shipmates.
"Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious."
- President George Washington
Warmest Regards,
Too Tall
CAPT. D.A. "Too Tall" Lausman
Commanding Officer
USS GEORGE WA