I always tell her she is going to be the first female [master chief petty officer of the Navy]. She has a leadership ability you don't see out there every day.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

"Our duty as soldiers, is to protect humanity. Whatever the cost." -Master Chief "You say that like solidiers and humanity are two different things. Soldiers aren't machines... We're just people." -Thomas Laskey

He's going from being the chief executive to being the chief administrative officer. It's a very different kettle of fish.

4 of us, and 2000 of them. Piss-poor odds. For them.