Ladies and Gentlemen, please find your seats. The ceremony will begin momentarily. Throughout the ceremony you will be given cues to stand and be seated at the appropriate times. As a reminder, during the singing of our national anthem, military members should stand at attention and salute. Civilian guests are invited to place their right hand over their heart. We request all electronic devices be silenced for the duration of the ceremony. Lastly, we would also like to acknowledge that given our proximity to the flight line, there will likely be times during the ceremony when aircraft are taking off and landing. During these times, we will pause all narration and speeches and pay due respect to the sound of freedom tearing through the skies. Thank you. Our ceremony will begin momentarily. Good morning. I am Technical Sergeant Adrienne Kramer from the 673rd Medical Support Squadron and I will be your narrator for today's ceremony. The men and women of the United States Air Force observe a change of command in which the reins of responsibility for the 673rd Air Base Wing will pass from Colonel Kirsten G. Aguilar to Colonel David J. Wilson. The presiding official for today's ceremony is Lieutenant General David A. Crumb, Commander, Alaskan Norrad Region, Alaskan Command, and the 11th Air Force, accompanied by his wife, Lisa. Also joining Lieutenant General Crumb is Chief Master Sergeant Chris Berg, Senior Enlisted Leader of the Alaskan Norrad Region, Alaskan Command, and the Command Chief Master Sergeant, 11th Air Force, and his wife, Amy. We would like to take a moment to recognize our distinguished guests in attendance today, Colonel Aguilar's husband, Abraham, and her father, Barry. Colonel Wilson's wife, Susan, their daughter, Ella, and his father-in-law, Craig Williams. Representing Senator Lisa Murkowski, Mr. Greg Kaplan. Representing Senator Dan Sullivan, Mr. Nick Capose. Brigadier General Tracy Smith, Assistant Adjutant General, Air, Alaskan National Guard, and Commander, Alaskan Air National Guard. Chief Master Sergeant Kim Grote, Alaska State Command Chief. Brigadier General Tony Stratton, Commander, 176th Wing. Colonel Trevolis Simmons, Commander, 3rd Wing, and his wife, Jamise. Colonel Brian Budd, Deputy Commander, 477th Fighter Group. Colonel Jody Schaus, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division. Colonel Chris Ward, Chief of Staff, 11th Airborne Division. Lastly, a special welcome to all senior officers and civilians, commanders, chiefs, first sergeants, members of Team Jaber, our community partners, friends, and guests joining on Zoom for being here to share in this special occasion with Colonel Wilson and his family. At this time, we would also like to pay tribute to the Dinaina Athabaskans. We owe a deep gratitude to the Dinaina for their continued care and stewardship of the land on which we call Jaber. For thousands of years, the Dinaina have been and continue to be the stewards of this land. With gratitude and respect, we recognize their contributions and innovations. Please stand for the arrival of the official party and remain standing for the playing of ruffles and flourishes, presentation of the colors, singing of the national anthem, playing of the Alaska State Song, followed by the invocation. A distinctive feature of military ceremonies is the formal presentation of command to the reviewing officer. Today's formation represents the men and women who will serve under Colonel Wilson. Oh, say can you see the dawn's early? What's so bright at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through this fight, parts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's still there. Chaplain Nelson will now deliver the invocation. Lord, we gather this morning for the change of command as Colonel Kirsten Aguilar relinquishes command and Colonel David Wilson assumes command of the 673rd Air Base Wing. We are grateful for Colonel Aguilar's leadership and mentorship and guidance. We are grateful that she put people first, that she cared deeply for the mission here at Jaber. We appreciate all that she has done during the difficult times these past two years, leading during the pandemic and trying to accomplish all that was needed of the 673rd Air Base Wing, and all the mission partners that placed demands upon her. I now ask a blessing upon her and her family, her husband Abe and their children Nathan, Emma, and Lucas. As they continue their Air Force journey, bless her in her new job as the head of A1P, bless them all for their service and sacrifices they have made to Jaber 11th Air Force, the 673rd Air Base Wing, and let them know that they will be greatly missed. And now I ask a blessing upon Colonel Wilson. Bless him with the wisdom and vision necessary to continue the successes of Colonel Aguilar, that he may improve and build upon them and lead the 673rd and Jaber to greater mission accomplishments. Bless his staff, the groups and squadrons to help him accomplish his mission here at Jaber, and also in supporting all the partners in accomplishing of their missions. And now I ask for special blessing be a place upon his wife Susan and their daughter Ella, understanding of the responsibilities that are now placed upon him, and that they now have to share their time with him with others. Bless them for the sacrifices they have made and will make while here in Alaska. And bless Colonel Wilson and his family to take advantage of all that Alaska has to offer and appreciate the great and wonderful experiences that await them. And for these blessings I humbly pray for and ask for in your holy name. Amen. Thank you Honor Guard, Chaplain Nelson, and Specialist Trinity Colvin. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. And now it is my pleasure to introduce Lieutenant General Crumb. I guess I shouldn't have sat down, huh? Hey, good morning everyone. So let's just start off with to answer all the questions you have right now. And yes, it is true. When you're flying an F-22 and you're coming up tack initial, the first thing you do is you look down at Heritage Park and say if anyone's there, and if so, you do as many patterns as possible with as much noise as possible because that government, that's the sound of freedom as we go forward. I'll tell you, Trinity, that was a great, great national anthem. And when the rocket's red glare, when she belted that out right after all that jet noise, man, I had goosebumps going up and down my spine. And you look around and see what we got going on and what a beautiful day is. You know why we're here. To defend our country and to keep her safe. And so it's a beautiful day here in the state of Alaska and I timed that perfectly. I'm excited because we get to celebrate what a great achievement of Colonel Aguilar and the coming of Colonel Wilson into be the commander here. But it's also a sad day because you see a couple of great airmen depart from us as well. I'm going to start off by recognizing some important people. And before I do that, let's just recognize the fact that I want everyone to look to your left, look to your right. You'll notice that there's someone next to you. This may be a new phenomenon for each of us that we're actually close and together once again. And what an amazing thing it is. I don't want to really say the C word. I think I'll say it a little bit later on when we talk about COVID. But you know, when we talk about where we've come over the last two years or so, every accomplishment, everything that we've been able to do together and what this wing has been able to do has all been overlaid by the challenge of COVID. And you guys have done an amazing job overcoming that. So I will say first off, welcome Abe and Barry and Susan, Ella and Craig. We're glad to have you guys here. We've also glad to have Tracy with you guys here and all the rest of our Tony. Glad to have you guys here. Greg, good to see you. I didn't see Nick, but I think he's probably around here somewhere. All of our local leaders, our DVs, thank you guys for being here today. But really thank you to the many leaders in the Airmen of the 673rd Air Base Wing, who are both here, but also the wings mission never stops. So we've got a lot of Airmen working and holding down the floor this morning. The purpose of today's ceremony is to formally transfer authority from one commander to the next, let's make sure that the Airmen here and the ones working are never without leadership. I will tell you that this organization is one of the best. Now normally when you get to talk about an organization, you talk about, you know, back in the dark ages when the earth was still cooling, this was formed and then Napoleon handed off a sword. But we're relatively new. 2010 is when J. Bear stood up, 673rd. In my, you know, multitude of research that I did, I discovered that Tesla offered their first Model S in 2010. So that's about the only thing I got for heritage as it came out. But if you go back in 1940, Elmendorf was one of our strategic bases here. In World War II, the base service is the main logistic center. And we fought and we helped support to fight the only enemy campaign here on our homeland when Japanese took some of our Aleutian Islands. And during the Cold War, Alaska's strategic location was critical to radius and power projection. And in Elmendorf, the distinction is top cover for America as depicted above remains true today. I will tell you that in today's content, 673rd is even more important than ever as the Air Force prioritizes excellence in agile combat employment throughout this region. I want to give you guys a sense of how big this wing is. The wing has 5,000 people, four groups, 15 staff agencies, three total force Air Force wings, the Army's 11th Airborne Division, because I'm a five jump chump. I just want to get that out there real quick for all my Army brothers and sisters. And 55 tenant and subordinate units. And each one of them thinks they're more important than the others. $15 billion of infrastructure covering more than 85,000 acres. And if that doesn't sound like a whole lot of important responsibility, I'd like to know what you're responsible for. But that's what the leader of this wing is in charge of. But this wing's growth and strategic importance also reflects a changing international security environment. Put simply, we live in a different world today. We truly live in dangerous times. Over the last few months we've seen the nation's state of Russia, led by a man only interested in his own power, driven by self-interest, violate international law, norms, and sovereignty. With the continuing territorial invasion of Ukraine. And here in Alaska, we're no stranger to Russia. At our closest point being only 55 nautical miles away from it, we know that we can never, and we will never, stop standing in the watch. Because what we know is whether it be persons, groups, or nation states, some are not deterred by words or civility. They are only deterred by strength, and this wing provides that. And as the Arctic becomes more accessible, what we know is those nation states and others, we will have to monitor for other threats. For decades, China has sought to change the world order, and has violated international norms, laws, and established borders. They threaten their neighbors, they steal intellectual property, and they steal resources, such as fish. China, over the last few years, have been making unprecedented forays into the waters of the Arctic, surveying for resources to extract. And what we know today, ladies and gentlemen, is we should not expect either one of those two nation states to abolish their nefarious practices, and especially we don't see why they would stop doing it next to our homeland. Increased military traffic and historically inaccessible Arctic seas is dramatically altering the security calculus of our region. And the 673rd Airbus Wing is a key part of our allies and our nation's homeland defense. But not only up here do we have to fight rising nation states that could be potential adversaries, we have to fight a different adversary, the environment. For those of you visiting, this is not a typical Alaska day. It is a spectacular day, but it might not be our typical day. We deal with challenges our sisters and our brothers in arms in the other parts of the world rarely have to think about. Bitter cold, howling wind, volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, no storms, wildlife. I saw two bears today. We all have to remember that we are not at the top of the food chain when it comes to bears as we go forward. And we just, not only to mention the sheer size of the state, no one else can do what all of you do as Arctic warriors. Your ability to operate efficiently, survive, and thrive in the Arctic will make the difference when it comes to the success of our agile combat employment. Because agile combat employment is something we're practicing all over the world, but equally so up here. Because we have to be able to do agile combat employment from polar bears to penguins and palm trees in between, all over the Indo-Pacific and our homeland. And our forces here in Alaska are part of a strategic triangle that stretches across the Indo-Pacific Air Responsibility when it starts up here in the North Com AOR. And it's critical to our nation's efforts to maintain a free and open Arctic, as well as Indo-Pacific. That triangle hinges on the forces up here in Alaska and our ability of our nation's air force to operate all over the world. The airman of the 693rd year mission is essential to our projection of power and the demonstration of democracy. And it's important. We're reminded of that by the actions of China and Russia. That strength is important. And every day when you come to work, I want you to know that. So when you look at that person in the mirror and you're getting ready to come to work, you know that that person looking back at you is what guarantees peace, prosperity, and freedom. It's what you do.  And you've been led by the best. Kirsten, I told you this before, but you've been spectacular. These airmen have been well, well led.  I know that they're talented, but they wouldn't have done what they've been able to do without great leadership. And it starts with you. You've tackled all those seven plagues of Egypt's, tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires, wildflowers too, in case you haven't seen outside of my CHQ. It's an inside joke. But Kirsten, you expertly led your team through obstacles and led the organization to be even stronger than when you arrived. We owe you our gratitude. And I love and hate this part of the job. I love it because I get to recognize what she's done, but also that she's going to depart us. And when she and Abe go, it's going to be a tremendous loss for us. And what's worse, it's almost like you're getting penalized. You're having to go to the Pentagon after doing such a great job. But Kirsten, or what I'm proud to say, Brigadier General Select Aguilar, thank you for your leadership and commitment to this great team. The men and women of this wing are phenomenal, and they are because of you.  Thank you very much for that. And Abe, I want to especially thank you. Being a supportive spouse is not easy. And the things that you've done and supported Kirsten, not only here but throughout her career have also been phenomenal. And I thank you for your service as well, what you've done.  Now, as Brigadier General Select Aguilar's command comes to close, I get to go back to the part of the job that I do love, and that's to welcome another outstanding airman and their family. Colonel Wilson joins us from Peterson Space Force Base. We'll get you back in the Air Force now. You're good. Where he was the commander of the 21st Mission Support Group in his previous assignment, Colonel Wilson led 2,000 personnel, so we're going to more than double that up here. Personnel security and services support to the 21st Space Wing and units of the Peterson Shriver Garrison in addition to 23 geographically separated units. So we more than double all the stuff that you did before. So good luck. We're all counting on you. Dave, I will tell you, you've got my full confidence as commander.  Jay Perry is happy to welcome you, Susan and Ella, and Sound of Freedom. And I'm going to be really, really thrilled to see how you develop this organization. But I will tell you now that Tony's airplane is going to give me a little bit of a reprieve. Here's what I want you to do. I want you to continue Colonel Aguilar's work, bringing that every single day, overhead, and making the sixth and eighth part of a seamless global force protection paradigm. I want you to relentlessly collaborate with all those mission partners, including the New Year 11, the Airborne Division, all of our different wings, our Alaska National Guard, to keep us synchronized and harmonized. And most importantly, take care of them. The service members and their families, they are the backbone for everything that we do. Ladies and gentlemen, I tell you one of my favorite expressions is to say I usually just can't wait to see what the new commander is going to do, so we're not going to wait any longer. Thank you very much for your attendance today. Thank you for everything that you guys do. May God bless you all, our great nation, in this Air Force. Thanks. Brigadier General Stratton and Colonel Aguilar, please join Lieutenant General Crumb on stage for the presentation of the Legion of Merit First Oak Leaf Cluster and the Alaska Legion of Merit. Attention to orders. This is to certify that the President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 20, 1942, has awarded the Legion of Merit First Oak Leaf Cluster to Colonel Kirsten G. Aguilar for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services 14 July 2020 to 28 June 2022. Colonel Kirsten G. Aguilar distinguished herself by exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service to the United States as Commander, Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson and the 673rd Air Base Wing, Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, Alaska from 14 July 2020 to 28 June 2022. During this period, the exemplary ability, diligence and devotion to duty of Colonel Aguilar were instrumental factors to her leadership of over 5,000 personnel in four groups and 15 staff agencies, securing the installation status as the PACAF's Keystone Weapons System. Her guidance enhanced joint Arctic Strategy capabilities as she drove the Below Zero Medicine Initiative, amplifying research, training and readiness for medical professionals across the region. Colonel Aguilar's unparalleled determination propelled Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson to establish a new Arctic Regional Training Site to advance the Air Force's Arctic Strategy as well as the United States' Northern Commands and Pacific Air Force's Mission Readiness. Additionally, she skillfully executed the installation's first hub-and-spoke exercise involving three wings, advancing the Pacific Air Force Commander's Agile Combat Employment Priority. As a master of managing resources, Colonel Aguilar flawlessly executed an annual budget of $547 million while sustaining a $15 billion infrastructure portfolio. She expertly navigated the Joint Base through the coronavirus pandemic, ensuring zero disruptions to the mission while under health protection condition Charlie. Her thorough analysis, Health Protection Emergency Declaration and calculated protocols in conjunction with the efforts of the state and the municipality of Anchorage ensured the continuation of mission essential activities while safeguarding the community. Finally, Colonel Aguilar's unrivaled passion for excellence and commitment to the mission inspired countless service members to exceed expectations, leading the wing to garner 100 major command, Air Force, and Department of Defense individual team and unit award wins. The Superior Initiative, Outstanding Leadership and Personal Endeavour displayed by Colonel Aguilar reflect great credit upon herself and the United States Air Force. This is to certify that the Governor of Alaska has awarded the Alaska Legion of Merit to Colonel Kirsten G. Aguilar for exceptionally meritorious service to the state of Alaska from 14 July 2020 to 28 June 2022 while assigned to the 673rd Air Base Wing Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, Alaska. During this period, Colonel Aguilar's steadfast leadership and commitment to total force integration with Alaskan base forces, interagency partners, and the Alaskan Native communities was foundational in advancing Alaska's military readiness. She was a strong mission partner as the 176th Wing carried out Title X missions including air defense, rescue, and strategic airlift. Furthermore, Colonel Aguilar skillfully led the installation through the COVID-19 pandemic balancing operational capability, readiness, and safety and enabled the Alaskan National Guard to maintain operational and training requirements. Under her leadership, total force integration between Alaska North America Air Space Defense Regions, active duty, and Air National Guard forces enabled 18 enabled 18 air patrols and two intercepts in the support of the 24-7 Air Sovereignty Missions and more than 9,000 hours of C-17 strategic airlift emphasizing Alaska's missions, partner, and active duty forces support to the governor of Alaska. Finally, Colonel Aguilar's strong advocacy for Alaska search and rescue forces contributed to 112 rescue missions resulting in 79 saved lives. The Superior Initiative Outstanding Leadership and the personal endeavor displayed by Colonel Aguilar reflect the highest credit upon herself, the Alaska National Guard, and the state of Alaska. Ladies and gentlemen, Colonel Kirsten G. Aguilar, Commander, 673rd Air Base Wing. Colonel Dentor, go ahead and put the formation at ease. Well, good morning. On behalf of the men and women of the 673rd Air Base Wing, thank you very much for making the time to be here today. I am incredibly humbled to stand before you as the Air Base Wing Commander for the final time. Having the opportunity, rather the privilege, to serve my country for the last 25 years, I can honestly say no other assignment has meant more to me than serving as your commander. As I thought about how I could best capture what this wing has done to support the many missions here at J-Bear, I realized the best approach was to spend the next few moments expressing my gratitude. For the many teammates I've had the honor to serve with during the last two years. First to my boss, General Crumb, Miss Lisa. Sir, I cannot thank you enough for the trust and confidence that you had in me. Let's be honest, having your three-star boss on your base can be a little unnerving at times. But sir, you gave me the decision space that I needed to provide for the health and safety of this installation while ensuring our mission partners were able to execute their assigned missions. I'm incredibly grateful for your guidance, your direction, and your patience. Miss Lisa, you are simply wonderful. Abe and I could not have asked for a more caring senior spouse to advocate on behalf of the families in Alaska. We will miss you, but we wish you both the best. To Brigadier General Smith, Brigadier General Stratton, our Alaska Air National Guard partners, thank you for your partnership, but frankly, thank you for your support as we navigated the many challenges during the last two years. And to General Stratton, sir, I am incredibly humbled by the presentation of the Alaska Legion of Merit. Words cannot express my gratitude for your partnership the last two years. Thank you, sir. To my fellow Wing Commander, Brigadier General Tony, Brigadier General Select, Tony Simmons, and the entire Third Wing leadership team, Jaws, I wasn't sure if you were going to bring it this morning, but my goodness, you know how much of a fangirl I am, but thank you. I don't know if anyone else gets as fired up as I do, but standing here seeing the flag of our nation and hearing that amazing rendition of the National Anthem and seeing air power and freedom in action, it just gets me going, so thank you so much for that. Just being able to be immersed in your mission gets me excited, but seeing how much our two teams have accomplished together over the last two years, the only word that I can think of is just awesome.  I have learned so much from just watching you lead, and I am honored to have served by your side. Thank you. And Abe and I could not have asked for better teammates in you and Jamies. And to our Army partners, Colonel Jody Schaus, thank you so much for being here and to all of the 11th Airborne Division team. The commanders in my wing know that your priorities are this wing's priorities, and we take that responsibility seriously. We know that our support to your mission is critical, and I appreciate your partnership as we continue to advocate for our soldiers, our airmen, and their families in Alaska. I also want to thank our many community partners, especially my good friend Sarah Riffer from the U.A., the U.S.O., Atheese Deca, our housing partners at Aurora and the Anchorage School District. There is no doubt about how much our community partners care about our Alaskan service members and their families. Thank you for all that you do to ensure this community at J-Bear can thrive. And finally, a special thanks to my leadership team within the Air Base Wing. I know I'm biased, I admit that, but we have such a rockstar team with commanders, senior enlisted leaders who go out every day and give it their all to ensure the many missions that call J-Bear home are successful.  And I am overwhelmed with how hard you have worked to ensure that we are ready when that worst day comes. To my senior enlisted advisors, Sergeant Major Howell and Chief Mills, I appreciate how passionate that you are about our soldiers, our airmen, and their families. And Chief Mills, I am grateful for your Sage Council and your candor for having my back and reminding me not to read the comments. Mr. Weckhorst, sir, thank you for your 42 years of service to this nation. I am grateful for the opportunity to have served with you and learned from you. And to my executive team and my front office staff, the folks that work behind the scenes, thank you for keeping me on track. Thank you for ensuring that we took care of every last personnel action we could before this moment. Because our purpose is to ensure the folks within our wing are taken care of. And finally, to my Vice Commander, the Army Commander of Troops, my number two, Colonel Dentor, I could not have asked for a better teammate.  Your job is not an easy one.  But you did it with compassion, always keeping the focus on others. It has been my honor to serve alongside you. A special thanks to Lieutenant Wallace, Senior Master Sergeant Kalika, Ms. Tori Moore, and the protocol team from 11th Air Force. Chaplain Colonel Select Nielsen for his kind words and blessing and the entire team that made today's ceremony so special for me, my family and for the Wilson family. Special thanks to the 9th Army Band and again, Specialist Trinity Colvin for that beautiful rendition of our national anthem. Yes! I actually recorded this because I'm not going to get this at the Pentagon, so... I'm grateful for the many family and friends in the crowd and those that are joining us virtually. To my kiddos who are watching online with their grandparents from Oregon, Dad and I miss you so much already, but we are excited to start that next special thanks to my dad who traveled all the way from New England to be here and I'll know those she's no longer with us. I know my mom is watching from above and smiling down on this ceremony today. To my husband Abe, you are my rock. I could not have done any of this without you. Your love and your support is amazing to me. Alaska has stolen our hearts and I am grateful that we bought that land on the Kenai so that we can come back. Thank you for being my best friend, my biggest supporter, but also thank you for not being afraid to hurt my feelings and tell me when it was time to put my big girl pants back on and get after it. I was asked if I was getting a gift for my husband and I said that he already got a gift and it was one that I was not involved in the decision making of because I was TDY when this gift was purchased. Just wait for it. So I see you looking at me Oh, here comes another one. I'm sorry sir, I get giddy. So I see you looking at me wondering what this peculiar gift is. Yes! One more! So you can thank the rest of Dayton County for the chainsaw that we definitely did not need but that you said we need and that you got a really good deal on so you're welcome for your farewell gift. I am humbled by how willing you are to continue to stand by me. Thank you for all your love and support. I love you. To my good friend, Colonel Dave Wilson, Abe and I couldn't be more excited to turn over our military family to you and Susan once more. We know that this Wing and Team J-Bear will continue to be taken care of because you and Susan are kind and compassionate and you put people first.  I'm excited to see the heights that you take this team to. Lead well, lead boldly, my friend. And finally, to the men and women of the 673rd Air Base Wing. Two years ago I challenged you to focus on being airmen of character who were committed to the mission and built meaningful relationships. I asked you to build connections with people here at J-Bear with our partners up north and across the command. Over the last two years you have overwhelmed me with how well you have cared for one another time and time again reaching deep to ensure that your teammates could be the best version of themselves. You have impressed me, impressed me with how well you've done your job and enabled the mission of our many teammates who call J-Bear home. Whether it was support to the many exercises executed right here Northern Edge, Arctic Edge, Red Flag or a day like today when I think every single F-22 on the wing is taken off today. Whether it was supporting our 3rd wing teammates here during Neptune Hawk, Valiant Shield, Pack Iron, the multiple exercises that they went on or supporting our Army partners during Uniboss, JPMRC or during a Jaffeo, you always found a way to ensure the mission was accomplished to keep our enemies on their toes and decide that today was not the day. And finally in July of 2020 when my family and I arrived I did not realize how critical it was going to be for us to build meaningful connections. But is because of those connections you forge and continue to strengthen that we were able to persevere through COVID find a way to continue to project power from J-Bear and defend the homeland because the nation depends on us to be at our best every day. It has been my greatest honor to serve as your commander and I will continue to admire you from afar. Thank you. Colonel Aguilar will receive her last salute from the men and women of the 673rd Air Base Wing. Lieutenant General Crumb and Colonel Wilson, please join Colonel Aguilar center stage. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand as Lieutenant General Crumb performs the change of command. How does she order? Attention to orders. Under the provisions of Air Force Instruction 51-604 and Special Order Number G-22-029 effective 28 June 2022. Colonel Kirsten G Aguilar relinquishes command of the 673rd Air Base Wing and Colonel David J Wilson assumes command of the 673rd Air Base Wing. Thank you. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my distinct pleasure to introduce to you for the very first time Colonel David J Wilson commander 673rd Air Base Wing. Colonel Denter, please put the wing at ease. Take a moment and look around us. Beautiful day, this location, all of the folks, the sounds of freedom. I wish you could see the perspective that I see. It's a testament for the resolve of the American people, sons and daughters before me, the jets behind me, and while there is always a place in my heart for the space force, it's good to be home to our Air Force. Good morning, thank you all for joining us. I want to do a quick thank you for all the folks and Colonel Aguilar, listed by name. So many people make this happen. Nothing happens on accident to the narrators, to all of the project officers, to the fantastic musicians, to the folks in formation here, the vehicles you see around you. Just a huge round of applause for all of the work that goes into this. Today is a bit of a dream come true for Ella and Susan and I, to be here at Joint Base Elmodorf Richardson in the land of the Midnight Sun, serving with the tremendous Arctic warriors of the 673rd Air Base Wing. I want to begin by thanking my family, Susan and Ella, for sharing this lifetime of adventure with me, for all the sacrifices you make each and every day. I love you. To Pam and Craig, for traveling all over the world with us, the best grand and grandpa, professional and house unpackers that we could ask for. To my mom, to my brother Danny, to Susan's sister Amy, and to their wonderful families who are not here with us today, we love you. We look forward to future visits. Lieutenant General Crumb, thank you for this opportunity. To serve in the 673rd Air Base Wing, there is no greater honor than leading our airmen, and I am extremely grateful for your confidence. Mrs. Crumb, thank you for being here today. Thank you for your support, for everything you do for this entire community. Mr. Kaplan, Mr. Capose, General Smith, General Stratton, Chief Grote, thank you for being here, and always supporting our J-Bear family. I'd also like to thank the other commanders and directors, senior enlisted leaders, community leaders, soldiers, airmen of J-Bear, and attendants. Thank you for all you do each and every day for the families and the mission. A very heartfelt thank you to Colonel Aguilar.  During the last two years, J-Bear was in need of steady, level-handed, dynamic leadership, and I cannot imagine any other officer who would have more perfectly met the challenge, led this team to greater success. Thank you, Abe, for your unwavering service, for your support, and to Nate, Lucas, and Emma for sharing your mom with us and all of the personal sacrifices that military families make each day as part of the defense of our nation. Thank you. Finally, to the Arctic Warriors of J-Swing and all of the extraordinary mission partners here at J-Bear, thank you for showing up each and every day. Our success requires singular purpose, shared sacrifice, and empowered leaders. We are an Air Force family. Therefore, we will encourage, support, and hold one another accountable. Together, we will build the systems, the teams, and the habits of excellence to ensure we are an unbreakable wall in our nation's defense. My priorities are simple. Family first. In our core, it is the core of our Wingman culture. I've got your six, and I know you've got mine. Agile combat support is our mission, and therefore we will invest in readiness, we will exceed customer expectation and empower subordinate leaders. And finally, we will cultivate a culture of respect and professionalism by being empathetic, connected, and present. How are we going to do all of this? Teamwork. We will face challenges and opportunities each day. Many of them will be unpredictable. Regardless of circumstance or crisis, I commit to each of you that as long as I have the privilege to serve alongside you, I will devote my every effort to provide unrivaled support to this mission and unwavering dedication to the welfare of you and your families. Thank you. Arctic Warriors, lead on. Colonel Wilson will now receive his first salute from the men and women of the 673rd Air Base Wing. Please stand through the Air Force Song and the departure of the official party.


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I have 15 minutes to pull this card or else. What's up guys, we're back with another video. Today we are doing another challenge where I have a time limit and we have to pull a specific card. And that card is a card we were looking for last week, the Blackwing Dragon Starlight Rare. We never pulled it on our live stream.  We're gonna do it a little bit different this time and try and pull it on video. We're gonna have a 15 minute timer. If I don't pull it in time, you guys can win $100. So make sure to like the video, be subscribed to our notifications. Let me know if you believe that I can pull it in 15 minutes. Let's get into it. Let's get started. Three, two, one, the timer has started. Let's go. All right, so the rules in this, I do have to do the pack trick. Just so we can't just like open right to the rare. We have to do the pack trick. We have to go through the cards and see if we can pull it. Bay Rock Dragon, Frecky, we've got the Underworld Ritual and the Jisoo Art Tool, Mole Cricket, Catalyzer, Venus Lyft, Branded Regains, we're starting it off with the Super Rare. There's some really good cards in this set that I hope to pull along the way, such as the Fin Rear, which is an amazing Ultra Rare. There's also the Lubellium, which is a $70 Secret Rare. So there's some amazing stuff we can get in here. We do have a time limit though, to pull the Blackwing Dragon, and that's what you guys are hoping that we, I guess you're hoping we don't pull it.  If we don't pull it, you guys win $100. So it's a win-win for you guys. Tessia, Heartbeat, we've got the Catalyzer, Turbo Tainted, Spiritualism and a Super Rare. We have only pulled Super so far. All right, that's cool, we can do this. I believe, I believe we can do this. We have the Amazonus Augusta, original bamboo sword, Amazonus Golden, Scareclaw Decline, Soul Scissors, Art Tool, Mole Cricket. Ooh, and our first Ultra Rare, the Dharma Cannon. Very cool. The Retrain of a TP2 Common, which is pretty funny. Well, let's keep going. We have had, we had pretty good luck last time we did this when we opened Power of the Duelist, and also those were a lot harder to open, but those Power of the Duelist packs were really good. We pulled like, wasn't it, two Ultis or something? Maybe even three. We didn't get the one we were looking for though, so we did have to do the giveaway. Speaking of giveaways, we are a little bit behind on giveaways because I am going somewhere every weekend for the last seven weekends, so it's been insane trying to stay ahead of videos and stuff like that, but the giveaways will be announced very soon, so keep an eye out for that. If you've won one and talked to me, you sent me an email and I haven't responded yet, just be patient with me because I got your email and I will be responding when I'm getting ready to ship it out, so there's a Super Rare, very nice. Okay, we're not even two minutes in, we've opened a lot of packs. Let's see, can we get something? So far we've only gotten one Ultra and it was not a great one. Prediction Princess, Amazonas Augusta, Spiritual Something, with the Cache Tira, where's the Fin Rear? And the Sam Sera Sorrow Cat, we've got ourselves a tongue twister card, very interesting. How many packs can we get open? Hopefully, oh yeah, we're gonna do a pack counter by the way, we're gonna see how many packs I can get open in 15 minutes and you guys can try and beat it. You know, if you guys have a bunch of packs to open, you wanna do a speed pack opening, you know, try and beat me and let me know if you guys have done that before or what your record is in terms of like time and number of packs. So, I am doing it where you have to do the pack trick and go through all the cards to make it a little bit. Oh, we'll cast your Unicorn, very nice, because if you just open right to the rare, we could open a lot of packs, like really fast, but I feel like that's cheating a little bit, so we're gonna do it this way, so that way you at least have to look at all the cards. We got the Retrain of the Made In Other Awkward, which is funny, I keep missing cards, which is not good for our time. All right, what am I? We're not even three minutes in, I've opened like, probably 10, 15 packs, I don't know. I'm honestly getting tired. The 10 minutes last time was rough, so I think 15 is gonna be pretty hard.  The way we're holding this, like opening in this direction, like if you open it from the side, you can open them a lot faster. I'm putting up my, I'm gonna put my stacks right here of cards because that's a little bit easier. Then I can lay my arm down a little bit more nice. Might be moving some up there, laughing Puff and Dragonic, Catalyzer, Venuslith, X-Men, we've got a, ooh, a Spellbound Secret Rare, very nice, that's a good one. Let's also do a total tally of how we're doing, and we can see like what our value is out of the number of packs. Silent Wolf, Blackwing, Tribecage Showdown, Amazonasilver, we've got the Prediction Princess, okay, very cool. Cucumber Horses in here as well, one of my absolute favorite cards that they've made in recent memory. Very cool, Curse of Armament, the Dragon, the Camellia, the Noodle Inversion, the Solstice, the Spiritualism, the Preparations, we've got the Tier Elmets Scream. Oh, the Druisk one, we gotta pull that out. That's like a few dollars. The Magma Hunt, I think is the one that's like $11 or something insane, it's a Super Rare, so there's like crazy value in the Super Seer, which is always really fun. When there's like some Super Rare value, you can actually pull stuff out of the Super Rare slot that you're actually happy to get. Ooh, a Fin Rear, let's go baby, that is a huge ultra rare pull. I think that garb was $50 something last I checked, which was like yesterday, and by the time you see this, I don't know when you guys are seeing this video, it's probably a few days after I recorded it, because I'm gonna be gone again the weekend, so I have to, I get ahead, so. All right, ooh, man, I'm exhausted. We're not even five minutes in yet. We're not even a third of the way through this. It seems like you guys liked the first one when we did this. If you did, make sure to let me know that I should do another one. I got, oh, Druisk form again. I ruck some specials, so I kinda cheated, but I do like doing the, like doing it with new sets. It's kind of fun, like sets that we haven't actually pulled something we need. We can maybe do it with like Black Rose and stuff like that, the Starlight that we never got. We got a Super Rare, cool. We are throwing packs everywhere. We're trying to speed run, one, two, three, four. Come on, Silent Wolf, we've got the Kegaro, the Bayrock Dragon, Frecky, the NJSU R-Tool, the Twin Saw, it's your element stream, Tilting Entertainment, we've got the Dagger, Fur Hire, very cool, we've got packs going everywhere. All right, come on, you gotta believe. One, two, three, four, we can do this. We have Celestial, we have Amazonas, Golden Whip, the Dechuria Blessing, Great Noodle Inversion, the Dancing Leaves, Tilting Entertainment, Share Elements, R-Tool, and the Bestial. That one's not great, I don't think. Or at least it's not valuable. It might be used, but maybe it's a one of or something. All right, we are officially over five minutes in, but that's okay, we still have nine point something minutes. All right, point went in like, oh, Brux and Special and NJSU R-T. It's kind of weird to say point when you're talking about time. You know, I don't know, it just sounds weird. Gotta believe guys, Geonic Pendulum, Squall, Decline, Secret Arts, let me know in the comments also if you're going to Pasadena coming up. So we'll be going to that, that's gonna be super fun.  So make sure to come say hi if you guys are there. You wanna see me, because some people said they saw me in Minnesota and didn't come say hi because they were like, not sure if it was me or whatever. Just ask, you know, I'll tell you it's me. Even though sometimes people say, do I know you, I'll secret it very nice. And then I say, I don't know, do you? But if you say Brux and then I'll say, yeah, it's me. Okay, one, two, three, four, let's go. We have a Scareclaw, we have a Blackwing, we have a Tabari, we have a Laughing Puff into your helmet, Scream, Mole Cricket, Showdown, Twinsaw, Super Rare, okay. Our Secret Rare, not great. I don't think the Gula Glim or whatever it's called is very good. So we're not looking too good so far. I think we've opened a lot of packs at this point. Cagaro, Grief, Mole Cricket, Catalyzer, Full Bloom, X-Men, and Aggregator, okay. Not even halfway through, we've probably opened one, two, three, four, a ton of packs. Probably like a booster box at this point, made of the Aqua Drift, Retrain, we got the Bay Rock Dragon. Why are we even pulled the Magma Hunt yet? And that's like a really good one. Ooh, a Rue Calvose, which is like, I think a $10 card there. Something like that, $10 Secret Rare, we'll take that. Not as good as the Super Rare, which is kind of funny, but still pretty good. Scareclaw Decline, Twin Shadow, Preparation, Scream, Hot Rod, Liger, and the Snow Blast, very cool. We've got, look, those are all the commons we've already opened. Let's throw some of that. We gotta move that, slowing us down a little bit, but gotta do what you gotta do. We're almost halfway through right now. Halfway through the 15 minutes. We have not pulled any Starlight, much less than the Starlight we're looking for. So this is gonna be a tough challenge. I'm hoping that we can do it, but it's gonna take a lot of luck to actually pull it in time, because, you know, it's one out of 10 cases for a specific Starlight.  Psychic River, I think we can do it though. Spiritualist War Chief, The Spirit, we got the Sword Master and the Sima Large Veins. Okay, no big deal. Just keep pushing, keep going, keep believing. This can happen. Drugonic Pendulum, Bayrock Dragon, Fracturative Runic Fangs, Underworld Ritual, War Chief, Castira Ogre with a, what in the world is that? It's like sticky, okay, that's weird. Secret Arts and Branded Beast, okay? Keep going, seven minutes on the clock. We gotta do this. Amazonas Augusta, Curse of Armatier, The Twin Shadow, Camellia, Showdown, Dancing Leaves, Cucumber Horse, Ogre, Hearse, I said Hearse. That is not what that was, okay. Cucumber Horse, one, two, three, four. Let's go. Tabari, let's go, Laughing Puffing. Can we get the Loubellion as well? That'd be pretty cool. Sword Master, Cucumber Horse. Oh, a Ruxen Special, we got the Mazin, the Battle Ninja, very nice. More Ninja stuff, very cool. One, two, three, four. Gotta go fast. Let's go, Sonic. Here we go, baby. Blessing, Wolf, Tilting Entertainment, Heartbeat, Iron Digger, The Godi, and I can't pull the cards. I'm falling apart. Let's go. Six, 20 to go on the clock. One, two, three, four. Come on. Cagero, Grief, Inversion, Salmon, Zonda, Soul Scissors, Spiritualists, Preparations, Blackwing, Feather, Whirlwind.  People always ask why my fingers hurt. It's never my fingers are my arms and like my back that hurt based on like the way I'm sitting, I think. I'm like leaning forward a little bit. There's a Zepp Ruby of the Godi. The fingers never really hurt. The fingers are usually fine because the fingers aren't doing too much. All they're doing is holding it. Bamboo Sword, War Chief, Spirit, Swordmaster, Ruxen Special, Sprite, Double Cross, okay. We've got a lot of comments have been pulled. Can we get the Starlight? Come on, you gotta believe. The Inner Queen, Salmon, The Prediction, Made in the Aqua Milky Way, Catalyzer, Full Bloom. Come on, Godi. We got the Preparations and Black Feather. Five minutes to go. We're almost two thirds of the way through. This is gonna be pretty intense. I mean, I wouldn't say it's gonna be close because if it will be close, if we pull it, it won't be close if we don't because it could have been anywhere. Magma Hunt, there's the big one. That's like a $12 card, $11 card, $10 card, something like that. That's a big super rare. $10 for a super is insane these days.  It's usually later on, like not when the set first drops when it's like $10. Usually it's like because they didn't get a reprint for a long time, that rare becomes $10. Not because it's like an amazing card that they printed in super. Very surprising that they did that. Zonda, size of battle, Ruxen Special, right to the Blackwing card. Very nice, we are being overrun by packs. I wonder how many we've opened, I'm very interested. Two, three, four, let's go. Gotta believe Kigaro, Grief, great noodle inversion, Salmon, Swordmaster, Scream, Twinsaw, and the Blackwing, Shamal, the Sandstorm, very nice. Still time on the clock. I remember when 10 minutes was over, I was like, man, I'm tired, but now we're going 15 minutes. So I'm working on the, you know, the stamina. We gotta be able to open packs nonstop at speed. Let's go. We gotta be the fastest pack openers in the West and the East and everywhere else. Let's go Silent Wolf, Augusta, Squall, Dancing Leaves, Cucumber Horse, the Mole Crick at the Secret Arts, and a Secret Rare. Is it the same Secret Rare? I think that's the same Secret Rare. Okay, Nigrate Secrets, we've had some good supers and Ultras though, which has been nice. Whitmaster, Scareclaw Declined, Salmon, Ritual Prediction, Soul Scissors. I can't grab the cards full bloom preparations. I can't get them Ruxen Special. That's why I let go a little bit and then I Ruxen Special. It's a fine balance between not being able to actually grab the card and Ruxen Specialing. It's very, very tough. I mean, I have a tough job, guys. I don't know if you guys know, but this is a tough job. A lot of work and expertise goes into opening card packs. I don't know if you guys know. Very, very difficult. And there's a large barrier to entry to being able to do this. All right, here we go. Yeah, I think Golganda, the Mole Cricket, we've got the Secret Arts, we've got the Turbo, and Jitsu Art of Mystery. Very nice. Three minutes ago, we're about 80% of the way through this challenge, and we have not pulled any Starlight, much less the Starlight we are looking for, the Black Wing Dragon. Can we do it now, Scream Cricket? We've got the Tribergade and a Super Rare. Very nice, very cool, but not what we're looking for. We have probably opened 50 packs of this set right now, like we are flying right now. Squall, it's a Klein, Bamboo Sword, Showdown, Swordmaster, Scream, Twin Saw, and a Sprite Double Cross. Let's go. One, two, three, four. We have Celestial Whitmaster, we've got Naturia Blessing, Newtolin Version, Dancing Leaves, Zonda, Showdown, and a Castira Birth, more Castiras, more births. Let's go. We gotta pull something, we are under three minutes to go. Can we do it? Amazonas Augusta, Armitier, Twin Shadow, Mole Cricket, Cosmos, Dome Rocks, and Special, we've got the X-Me, and the Blazing Gardeza, that's a very good secret where we finally got a good one. Keep going. Believe in guys, two minutes to go. Two minutes on the clock.  We are trying to pull it at the very end. We're trying to hit a buzzer beater in this pack opening. One, two, three, four. Let's go. We have Naturia, Silent Wolf, Kigaro, Bayrock Dragon, Heartbeat, Kudo Spirit, Catalyzer, Ion Digger. Oh, where are they? Where are they? One, two, three, four. We have Psychic Grover, Ruxen Special, Grief, Augusta, Core Elements. We've got another Ruxen Special. We've got the Scissors, the Spiritualists, Preparations, Scream, and the Bistial Albalos. Very nice. We have another old Juraim. Not bad, not bad at all. One, two, three, four. Still a minute and a half to go. We can do this. We can open more packs. Dragonic Pendulum, Squall, Pet Liger, Soul Scissors, Spiritualism, Preparations, and a Super Rare. Come on Starlight. Come on Blackwing Dragon. Let's do it. We have the Twin Shadow, the Naturia, the Wolf, the Ninja, the Mole Cricket, the Showdown, the Twin Saw, Liger King, the Baku, that's a Super Rare. I was trying to pull past that. Oh, a little bit over a minute. One, two, three, four. How many packs have we opened in this? I'm guessing we've opened over 50 armets, or I said that earlier. So I'm really feeling it now. Catalyzer, Full Bloom, the Goaty, and the Magma Hunt, very good. We'll take that. Couple more chances. One, two, three, four. Come on. Got Great Noodle, Salmon, Decline, Twin Shadow, Battle of Golgonda, Twin Saw, Spirit, War Chief, and a Super Rare. Woo, we gotta keep going, guys. Gotta believe. One, two, three, four. Let's go. We have Bay Rock Dragon. We have Runic Fangs, Ritual Prediction, Tessia, Ogre, Iron Digger, Twin Saw, Scream, and Caster of Birth. 30 seconds to go. Can we get two more packs? One, two, three, four. Let's go. We have Tobari, Laughing Puffin, Yoshiri, the Armature, the Ogre, Dancing Leaves, Roxas, BasilBats, Three Guards, that's kinda cheating, but we got one chance for one more, 20 seconds to go. Can we do it? One, two, three, four. Let's go. We have Amazonas, Naturia Blessing, Great Noodle, Rover, Entertainment, Secret Arts, Battle of Golgonda. We've got ourselves a tear. 10 seconds. Come on. Come on, we can go. One, two, three, four. Let's go. We gotta do it last second. Can we pull it, Scareclaw, Original Bamboo Puffin, Heartbeam, Heart Analyzer, Heartrod. We got a Sprinch, let's add an Ultra Rare, but it's at the last second. That could've been it. We made it in time. Oh, that was intense. Not gonna lie. 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So hey guys, welcome to come again if you're new make sure you hit the subscribe button and a little bell Comment below hit the like button. I may even share with your friends Good job. We have cookies and milk might be seen in that shirt Guys welcome back to come again. We're all g culture collide today's tour review is gonna be a bond the superpowers Darkside figure. So back in the early 1980s There was a really popular DC Superherotory line called superpowers and the cool thing about these is they came with little mini comic books That kind of told the story of what's going on One of the more popular version stories was about dark side the evil leader from the planet apocalypse So these guys The cool thing about these is they each supported the action feature one or two They supported some accessories at the time dark side here is missing his cape So doesn't have that that's the only thing he came with so we can go ahead and go over the sculpt and articulation And then go ahead and get into his special features So dark side here pretty much represents the dark side that we grew up with in the 80s and 90s He's got that stone-looking face. He's got the nice blue Tunic along with the white belt. It goes down to his hands This guy's fairly detailed for the time. He's got very rock and stone like markings on his arms and legs Got the big boots so with that we can go ahead and go into articulation Articulation is pretty basic on all these you have the head that moves from right to left You got the arms that go up and down Which you'll notice they're going together There's a reason for that and I'll get into that in just a moment. We have his legs which also go forward backwards His legs bend at the knee Now let's go over his special features. You'll notice. I don't know if it shows up while I'm camera Okay, so one awesome special feature That dark side had was his eyes will glow when light hits the top of his head So we'll try that. How's that? So and it looks really cool and that is supposed to represent his Omega beams Which was known to hit anything that he desires and it would basically disintegrate His other action feature was to represent Dark sides wrath when he gets angry and to do this is you just squeeze his legs together and his arms go That's basically your About it. He could also take an action. I'm not you know say he's fighting Superman here And he wants to smash Superman. I just go And he defeats Superman. Well, there you have it my friends. There is the dark side Figure from the superpowers Kenner line Overall not a bad figure my of course over time is loosened up and Joints aren't as stiff as they once were but still not a bad figure. I wish I had his cape He would look really cool, but thug side is not really ever shown too often with a cape nowadays. So I think that's okay. So until next time Hit that subscribe button Make sure you hit the like comment below and share with your friends


I'm going to show you guys how to cook the perfect Thanksgiving turkey and this technique can be applied to any poultry in general. The two most common techniques that people talk about are a wet brine and less commonly a dry brine. A wet brine is when you pretty much marinate the chicken or turkey overnight in the salt water solution and a dry brine is just putting salt on the outside of the skin and both of these methods have their pros and cons. They both make the turkey juicier but the wet brining method makes it much juicier whereas the dry brining method also adds a dry, crispy skin texture. By combining these techniques, doing a wet brine and then drying the skin out in the fridge, we get the best of both. So here I have chicken but you could do this with any poultry. It doesn't really matter. The only thing that's going to change is the amount of liquid you're going to use. Here I have a very flavorful chicken stock that I make and I mean I recommend you could just use water. I like using vegetable stock. What I have on hand right now is a very high quality chicken stock. What this is going to do is this is going to reinforce the flavors. If you don't have something like this, what you could do is you could just take some mirepoix, some celery, carrot, onion, with some herbs, bay leaf, thyme and put it in with the water here. That's one quart of chicken stock. Now for every cup of stock, you want roughly one tablespoon of salt. So we're going to add four tablespoons of salt to this brine. Some brines call for sugar, some don't, but the rule of thumb is generally half as much sugar as salt. So I'm going to do about two tablespoons of honey and that's really it. We're just going to make sure this is incorporated really well. I'm just going to kind of like tie this bag up a bit to make sure that the chicken is completely encapsulated in the liquid. You could do a turkey in a cooler too and this actually looks like it's leaking a bit so that's why I have a double bag here. But the purpose here is to maximize all the flavor elements. We have salty with the salt. We have sweet with the honey. We have umami, there's some seaweed in the stock. We're going to also maybe incorporate some acidity with some lemon juice after we cook it. You want to hit all the flavor notes and this brine is pretty much enforcing all of those things as well as making the chicken a lot juicier by transferring the salt and the sugar through the cell membrane into the chicken. I mean if you were to do a dry brine you guys can Google videos on dry brining. You literally just rub the whole thing in salt and put it on a rack. So this is going to go in the fridge overnight. You don't want to brine something for more than 24 hours otherwise it will become too soft. If you want to brine it for a longer period of time you would reduce the amount of salt in the brine. So I'm probably going to flip this once in about 12 hours and then we'll take it out tomorrow night. So the poultry has been brining in the fridge for 36 hours and that's kind of the upper limit unless you want to reduce the salt content of the brine. I would say minimum 24, 36 is kind of overkill. I just didn't feel like taking it out last night. I just put it on a rack. So this is just going to sit in the fridge for about 24 hours until the surface is completely dried out. Alright guys so the chicken has been in the fridge overnight and I actually took it out and let it sit at room temperature for about an hour just to warm up a bit before we put it in the oven. So here's the chicken. The surface is super duper dry.  That is the goal here and some people like rubbing like butter and salt and honey under the skin. I think that's delicious but I don't like separating the skin from the flesh of the chicken because if I cut the breast off after I do that then the skin kind of falls a little over the place. I like keeping the skin nice and tight on the burn. So all we have to do now is put this in the oven and the cooking temperature here is kind of like the margin of error is alleviated a lot because we did all this prep work ahead of time. We have a nice brined juicy chicken. We have a nice dry surface so the things that we need to do are going to come easier. The chicken is going to be juicy and tender because we brined it so we don't really have to worry too much about what temperature we cook it to and the surface is going to get nice and crispy because we dried it out so we don't have to worry about cranking the heat on the oven up. I'm going to put my oven on 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Chicken in the oven probably going to take about 30-45 minutes and one thing I did not mention is if you are cooking duck or game birds the temperature is different. For turkey and chicken we do want the breast to be 145 degrees. So the top is a little darker than we want it but I don't think it's to temperature yet. So if you take the inside of the breast we are at 130 so about 10 more minutes so probably just under an hour for the total cooking time. I'm just going to put a little foil on top because I don't want this to brown anymore. So the internal temp of the breast is 142-ish which is good that's perfect and if we take just inside the leg here it's like the inside of the leg is about 175 which is where we want the dark meat to be. So the reason the dark meat gets to a much higher temperature is because of where it's located on the bird it's closer to the source of heat and the fat retains more heat. So since the chicken measures about 140 in the deepest cavity of the breast it's going to go up to about 150 degrees. So keep in mind yes we're taking the chicken out at 140 but it will go up to 150 degrees that being the end goal temperature. So I'm going to let this chicken rest for probably 20 minutes and then we'll take a cut into it. One thing I forgot to do is you could put some water in the bottom of the pan just so that it doesn't dry up. More important if you're making a gravy. So while the chicken is resting I'm just going to put a little bit of butter and honey on it. It's a pretty interesting I think it was like an eater's night out or a munchies night out of honey butter chicken I think it's a restaurant where they used to serve honey butter with like the bread and then they tried dipping the chicken in it and it's amazing so this is just coat the outside of this in honey and butter and for turkey I might do maple syrup seems more like Thanksgiving oriented but either way it's delicious. It's sweet the salted butter is re-seasoning the outside of the chicken and the crust is still going to be nice and crispy and of course you could like put some honey and some butter on the side to dip it in too while you're eating it. You can talk yeah I'm just going to taste it okay. This is I'm going to taste the chicken this is breast meat and with my favorite part the crispy skin.  It's delicious so if you cook your chicken like right 240 without brining it it'll still be much juicier when you're used to but this is kind of like a combination of techniques that most people don't use when cooking their poultry in general not only are you taking to the right temperature to retain the moisture and not overcook it you're also brining and adding that moisture to it. It's very good. It's very chickeny right? Not too strong and it's just I'm amazed at how tender the breast meat is and how moist it is. It's usually the breast meat is very dry and if you look at the chicken the whole chicken and the moisture that's in there all over the cutting board but when it was cut I've cooked a lot and I've never had chicken that moist and that moist moisture come out of the chicken. Thank you guys so much for watching. I hope your turkey or chicken turns out just as good for your family as mine did. If you guys have any questions about this technique or cooking in general feel free to leave them in the description. Also let me know what cooking videos you guys would like to see in the future. I'm thinking of doing beef tartare, beef carpaccio, just kind of like carnivore focused dishes as that is the diet I follow so I think those are most appropriate to do first. If you guys do want to support me of course please just share the video. You can reach out to me one on one for diet consultations via my email or website in the description below. If you guys want to follow me on social media that's great too. I'm on Instagram, I'm on Twitter and if you guys want to check out my Amazon shop my Patreon feel free to Amazon shop I have a bunch of products I use every day and on my Patreon I have a little bit of a story about myself and kind of like what my life goals are. 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Hi, my name is Autumn. I'm from New York and today I'm going to be reviewing the TEFL 120-hour online course. So the reason that I chose the online course is because I am currently in university and I didn't have time to go into take a physical course. That being said, I found that the online course was extremely easy for me to follow as long as I just paced myself. There are 20 units and I was able to finish the entire certification within a month. I didn't want to spend too much time in between lessons as lessons are cumulative in some of the units. So for example, you're going to learn about something called the straight arrow method and that will be applied to questions on future units. The reason that I wanted to acquire my TEFL certificate is that I wanted to be able to teach English as a foreign language in Italy and living in Italy and I wanted to be able to get a job here and stay and teach English as a foreign language and thanks to my certification in TEFL, I was actually able to do that and after this I'll show you a little clip of where I live because it's very pretty and yeah, so thank you TEFL.