Hello teammates, I'm Colonel Pat Miller, Commander of the 88th Air Base Wing and installation commander for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. First let me say thank you for joining us for another COVID Town Hall so that we can provide you an update of where Wright-Patterson Air Force Base sits today. For those of you that may have saw the announcement on Friday, this past Friday, I transitioned the installation from Health Protection Condition Delta to Health Protection Condition Charlie. And again, I transitioned the installation as of Friday to Health Protection Condition Charlie. We remain under a public health emergency. That public health emergency currently runs until mid to late March. And we're going to keep that in place as we continue to transition through the different health protection condition levels as it stands right now. So why did I feel comfortable making that transition on Friday? Well today you're going to hear a little bit about that from our Public Health Emergency Officer Major Manning. And then Colonel Lyons, our Med Group Commander, is going to give you an update on our medical services. And he will be followed by Lieutenant Colonel Hill, our Deputy Mission Support Group Commander, to talk about impacts to different functions across the Mission Support Group portfolio. But first let me just scratch the surface and then Major Manning is going to get into the details. If you recall the journey to Health Protection Condition Delta. This started all the way back in when we were in Alpha, hard to believe when we were in Alpha in June of last year. And we were only seeing five cases recorded by our public health team in the month of June. And that's June of 21. And then we started to see an increase in cases. And that was primarily due to that Delta variant. And we hit the peak of the Delta variant in September of 21. And we thought, man, we worked through that Delta variant. We started to see things coming back down. And then Omicron showed up. And Omicron was something like we haven't seen any time before. Highly transmissible for vaccinated and unvaccinated personnel. And that Omicron really started to hit its stride November cases increasing, December cases increasing. And we hit our peak in January for that Omicron variant. And that's why early January I declared Health Protection Condition Delta. And it was based off of those four measures or metrics that we use. And that is our COVID case incidence rate as reported by the COVID data tracker. And that's managed and operated by the Center for Disease Control. It's based off of trending of cases. And we were seeing that trend go in the wrong direction. It's based off of percent positivity rate. And it's based off of hospital capacity. Now folks, Delta at one point, so HPCon Delta at one point, the Omicron variant had our surrounding four counties all above 2,000 cases per 100,000 population. The threshold for OSD for Health Protection Condition Delta was 420 cases. And so we well exceeded that three, four or five times that threshold. And so as we continued on that journey, we needed to be in Delta. It was a recognition of the threat in our surrounding area, not necessarily the hot spots we were seeing on installation, but the threat in the surrounding area. And so we needed to do the right thing to acknowledge that threat. Fortunately, since about mid to late January, we saw that starting to come down. We peaked, one of our counties peaked at around 2,300 cases per 100,000. That's significant. As a matter of fact, percent positivity we were seeing in the ranges of 30 to 40 percent. Again, significant. But most alarming to me was hospital capacity. We were seeing our hospitals stressed. We were seeing emergency rooms, holding patients, because they couldn't transition to other bed spaces. And so it was a tough time. But now over the past couple of weeks, we saw all of that coming back down and coming down fast. As a matter of fact, we went from that peak of about 2,300 down to one of our counties at about 160 as of today. As a matter of fact, the range of our counties today is like 160 to 240. That's our surrounding four counties. And so if you look at that in terms of health protection condition levels, we're firmly in Charlie and actually we're starting to get on the lower end of Charlie. And one of those four counties, one of our surrounding four counties, is actually in health protection condition Bravo Plus range. And so we're trending in the right direction. We're seeing our new cases really come down. As a matter of fact, this time last month, we had our public health team was tracking over 1100 new cases for folks that work on the installation or for our dependents or retirees that were tested by our COVID screening line. Today, we're at about 220. Right? Again, just a huge difference between where we were last month. More importantly to me, our hospital capacity in our local community is getting much better, much better. And so a huge thank you to all of our community partners out there working in the medical business. You had your work cut out for you, not just over the course of the last year and a half, but really over the course of the last month or two. And so thanks for taking care of our families. Thanks for taking care of our friends. Thanks for taking care of our teammates. And we're thrilled to see us on the other side of this Omicron variant and doing much, much better. Hopefully you get a little bit of breathing space as we continue to trend in the right direction. And so for those reasons, I felt comfortable making this transition to health protection condition Charlie. And we continue to watch the numbers, those same four parameters, COVID incidence rate, new case trending, percent positivity rate, and hospital capacity to see if and when we can make the transition to the next level, that Bravo Plus. And so we're keeping an eye on that. That's around your 210, 211 mark for cases per 100,000 for our surrounding communities. And as I look at it, like I said, one of our four surrounding counties is already there. And a matter of fact, moving out to the next second ring, those nine counties, surrounding right Patterson Air Force Base, those four counties, those nine, four of those nine are in Bravo Plus range. And the other five are in that low end of the Charlie Raves. So we're getting there, folks. And that's due to the hard work of you being safe, wearing your mask, getting vaccinated, maintaining that physical distance, doing the right thing on and off base. And so thanks for that. I'm going to step away. I'll let Major Manning do a little bit more of a deep dive in there and talk about some of the services. What does Charlie look like for us? How do we get to Bravo Plus? And then he'll hand it over to Colonel Lyons, who will in turn hand it over to Colonel Hill and I'll come back and wrap it up. And so I appreciate you being with us. And let me step off and let Major Manning jump in. Thank you, Colonel Miller and the wing leadership team for having me here. And good evening, Team Right Pat. So one of the things we wanted to discuss is what exactly health protection condition Charlie looks like. And as the boss said in his email that he sent out on Friday, we shouldn't expect to see a lot of change because we have been doing such a good job of being kind of a bubble in the middle of this COVID storm, because we are wearing our masks and we are getting our folks vaccinated. So a few of the things that you can expect to see is we're going to continue to wear our masks and do our social distancing efforts that we have been doing so far. That includes washing your hands frequently. We're going to continue to screen our unvaccinated personnel. And if you are sick, please stay home and get tested so we can know what is best to do for you and make sure that we can get you the care that is so trusted here at the 88th Medical Group. We're going to optimize telework. And for all those who have asked many questions about the fitness center operations are open to eligible patrons. There are some capacity limitations. So for the Jarvis and Dodge gyms, that's going to be 100 max capacity and 200 max for the right field fitness center. For those of us who are subject to fitness testing, that is back on as well. So in general, the thing that you need to understand too is that we're kind of coming back into the swing of things, but we're going to keep our occupancy to about 25% of what would be pre-pandemic levels. And we're going to do that by following the guidelines that Colonel Miller sent out in his message to the entire base. DFACs are going to be restored to normal operations with their seating capacity. And then other base food establishments will also continue to offer their services with limited capacity for seating as well. And chapel services are going to be back to in-person. So we are really helping to get the base moving back to really good things. And a lot of those measures we're going to continue to see going on because they are the proven measures of mass square vaccination, social distancing that limit the spread of the disease, regardless of our health protection condition. But as Colonel Miller alluded to, we are coming down so rapidly, we may get to a point where we could go into Bravo Plus health protection conditions. So that, as he said, was 210 cases per 100,000. And we're getting really close to that. Now, what is that going to look like when we get there? What's going to change? Well, a lot of those guidelines are going to stay in place, right? We're going to still continue to screen our unvaccinated, do good hygiene, wear our masks, but we'll be able to increase our gathering capacities up to around 40%. So we're going to be able to get more of us back together, which is what everybody would like to see happen. And those are going to be the main changes that you'd see at that time. The biggest takeaway, though, is that we will have gathering guidelines that come out as we enter to that realm. One of the main questions that we get asked very frequently is in regards to masking. There are lots of questions about why we wear a mask, should we have to wear a mask, when we can unmask our kids, and when we can unmask ourselves? There are studies as back as far as 2008 that show that wearing masks in public reduced the spread of respiratory illness. This was long before COVID became a thing, and that it is also directly related to the amount of the population that wears a mask. So just to show you how well mask wear works for us in COVID-19, if you wear a cloth face mask, there's a 56% reduction in transmission.   So we are seeing a lot of good efficacy from us wearing our mask wear. It is not a silver bullet, but as we combine our multifaceted approach, this is one of the great tools we have to keeping our installation open, running, and meeting its mission. Stopping wearing masks too early is a lot like stopping taking your antibiotics before your course is through. It doesn't actually solve the problem. The OSD has given us an order to follow the CDC guidelines as far as mask wear goes. That order has us wearing masks when we are in substantial and high transmission rates. So everybody knows what that looks like. That means we have to have less than 50 cases per 100,000 on a seven day average for the wing to consider being able to remove mask wear. And currently we are sitting at between 160 and 240 cases in our surrounding counties. So we're not quite there yet, but it continues to be monitored as we go. And we continue to make sure that we can give the care that is needed at the medical group. Thank you for your time. Colonel Lyons, over to you. Thanks so much, Major Manning. I appreciate the great work of you and the team. And I just want to echo what Colonel Miller said. Thank you so much for all of our great caregivers out there in our community, certainly in our medical center, who have seen us through the surge of the Omnicron variant. And I think we have done well to fight the good fight, but it has been a tough one. And so I'm glad we're seemingly on the back side of that. But that's going to take continued vigilance and continued assistance from everybody. So we appreciate all the help and support, certainly for our medical center and all the caregivers that are out there. Thank you. I want to take a little bit of a different orientation and that is talk a little bit about on the medical front, what you can expect to see from the medical center, because some of our operations have and will change here, given what has happened over the course of the past month and what we see going to the future. So I kind of want to take a moment to talk to you about some of the decreases in services that you may see in the upcoming months. In truth, our mighty medics have been trusted to support multiple medical support teams across the nation. We just had a medical support team that returned from Muskegon, Michigan. And we have three other teams that have gone to Oklahoma, to Massachusetts and to Maine to support medical systems in our community that are struggling.  I think because they trained our expertly trained, excuse me, they respect and they trust our expertly trained medics to go out and support members in our community. And our mighty medics are very proud to go support citizens of our nation and help those who are struggling still with the COVID surge that we have seen here, certainly over the past month and a half or so. But that does require that we've had to take direct caregivers out of our mission set and that limits what we can do as an organization. Further, we stand ready, if called upon, to deploy members across the globe in supportive operations for any kind of a emerging situation that may be upon us. Again, as we anticipate that we may deploy multiple folks at the end of the month, too, we may see even further reduction in services. So what does that look like? In truth, the number of our inpatient beds has decreased by about 50 percent. We'll remain that way for a little bit. Our surgical capacity is limited to urgent and emergent cases only. Our outpatient services are still open and are still there to serve our beneficiaries, but you may notice a decrease in your access to care availability or an increase in that time to get your appointment. Really, the only places where you might not see impacts to our care is in our dental and pediatrics clinics who continue to work hard to serve our community. But our primary focus is on military readiness and making sure that we have ready medics to go and deploy wherever we're called upon, but also to make sure that we maintain our mission set here for the Wright-Patterson installation. And so we'll be focusing many of our efforts there. So to offset kind of our posture and what we've been forced to do to support the nation, our community partners have certainly rallied to help us. They've streamlined many aspects of transfer of patients to the facility and they've opened our doors to take our beneficiaries. And we cannot say thank you enough to those members of the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association who are always rallying to support the Wright-Patterson installation. But some ways that our beneficiaries can access care given our reduction of services that we've been experiencing and will experience here in the upcoming future. We encourage people for acute care needs to visit an urgent care center. Now for our military members that will require a referral for those folks to go down to urgent care centers, but we're encouraging people for acute care needs. So knew what you say what you are concerned about conditions to go to an urgent care center. Now if you have a truly emergent condition, something that's related to life limb or or eyesight or something that you feel is a truly emergency need, then we encourage you to visit the closest emergency room. If you have questions about your care or which direction that you should go, the best place to contact is our nurse advice line. And there's a couple ways to do that. You can do that online at mhs-nurse-vice-line.com or you can call 1-800-TRI-CARE. Now we still have been receiving questions related to COVID vaccinations. And for our military members and for children's ages 5 to 12, so those receiving pediatric doses, you should call 257-SHOT to schedule your appointment. But for non-military members, for other beneficiaries, we encourage you to use the local community to access COVID vaccinations. This has to do with the use of purple cap Pfizer vaccine that we currently have in reserve and use those for service members that needed not only our installation, but across the DOD. We're holding those appropriately. There is no difference between the purple cap, which is a undiluted form of the Pfizer vaccine, and the gray cap, which is a diluted form of the Pfizer vaccine. Unfortunately, the gray caps are just not available to us now. So that is the why of the limitation for that. So we encourage folks who still need to have a COVID screening to use our 5-2 COVID line. We found that to be very helpful to many of the folks who have called in. You can call, leave a message, and our team will get back to you as soon as possible to make sure to schedule your COVID screening if, indeed, you think that you have symptoms related to COVID. I want everybody to rest assured that our mighty medics are certainly committed to providing trusted care to you, to your loved ones, to all of our beneficiaries, but realize too that right now we're faced with supporting the nation in multiple capacities and we're proud to do so. We thank you for your support and everything that you have given back to our medical center, and we certainly thank the support of our community partners as we provide the best realm of care possible to all. Without turning it over to Lieutenant Colonel Hill, the Deputy Mission Support Group Commander. Thank you. So good evening, Team Right Pat. I'm Lieutenant Colonel Robertson Hill, Deputy Mission Support Group Commander, and so today I want to take an opportunity to quickly highlight what HPCon Charlie means to our services posture, and I'm going to start with APHES, who is a big or key player or partner with the Mission Support Group and really the installation. So you should be viewing a slide right now which highlights some information with regards to APHES and the operations that we have going on the installation. Bluff up front, APHES is open, ready for business, and they also have dining options, but the theme you will notice throughout my brief is that limited hours, days of operation changing, cancellation of some of our activities, which is a direct result of our challenges when it comes to our manpower shortages. So as a key partner and to continue offerings about standing services to our installation, I also want to share with you another chart on behalf of APHES. So they're looking for some highly motivated individuals to join their team. So I encourage you to log on to their Facebook page to gain some additional information on their hiring, whether it's for you, a dependent or even someone who is looking for employment. Also encourage you to check out the ShopMyExchange.com where you can also win some very nice prizes via their sweepstakes. Another plug and making sure everyone is aware, APHES Shopping is now available for our government employees or civilian employees to include firearm sales, military star card opportunities with approvals, and you can also get up to 10 to 15% off of your first purchase. So again, take advantage. The majority of our other four support dining options will be open with limited operations. This means that our hours of operation may be modified based on our base staffing or our customer foot traffic. Our restaurants will have limited seating available to accommodate our patrons. So I highly recommend that you tune into our four support webpage as well as our Facebook page to make sure you see what's open and what's closed. If a facility is closed, I'm most sure that it's closed because of our actual manning issues, our staffing issues, as COVID has severely impacted our staffing. However, we are constantly brainstorming how we can continue to bring first rate services to you in the community. Now as I move on, I'm going to talk about fitness centers. This slide that you're reviewing for a fitness center should be our operating hours as well as our cleaning times. You will also notice that our patron prioritization list. Please note that all of our categories, all four categories are welcome to our fitness centers. However, if it becomes a concern with regards to capacity levels, my staff will follow the highlighted prioritization guidelines as directed. Also, fitness assessments, as Major Manning had alluded to, has resumed for Charlie. However, I want to clear up, make sure everyone understands that there was no exemptions given during Delta for fitness assessments. It was simply a pause. Some individuals may find themselves in a past due status. So I recommend that you work with your commander, contact your unit fitness program manager to schedule assessment and work with your PTO.  They are open and will continue to operate within the public health emergency officer recommended ratio and guidance. Parental visits and interactions will be limited to brief drop off and pick up. And to be honest, our CDCs have been taxed hard by COVID and it's taken a toll, which is one of the reasons why we're starting to reduce or even are forced to consolidate some of our classrooms in order to stay open. However, our staffing levels, they will improve and eventually our enrollment for facility capacity will improve as well. With that said, we also were always looking for highly motivated care caregivers for our to join our team ensuring that we maintain the gold standard care for our littles, that our customers have been accustomed to. Our goal is to remain transparent and over communicate with our customers. In doing so, our parents who have opt to pause their child care during Delta at no charge were notified earlier this week. And with the return of Charlie, and of course, there was a grace period offered for their fee continuation. Lastly, we understand that there are some ongoing concerns with regards to our mask mandates as it relates to the CDC. Current DoD policy issued on 13 May of last year continues to mandate unvaccinated personnel two years and older must wear their mask with installation. You got me that drink right there. Right behind you. Thank you. I'm going to pause for a moment and take a quick drink so you can hear and understand what I'm saying. So back to what I was saying with regard to the mask, understand there are always concerns with wearing masks, but we're doing the best that we can to make sure that remain open and providing quality care. So addition to our heightened HP con Charlie measures, it also required that our mask be worn for a vaccinated and unvaccinated personnel during the pandemic and the public health emergency that we're currently experiencing. So until we reach health pecan zero, our changes or if there's changes to mask mandates have to be made by DoD or the installation level. So with that said, the mask where requirement in our childcare facilities and care facilities across the installation will remain in effect. Use of these measures have been a key component of public health approval for our retention of full capacity in our classrooms honestly allows us to provide the care that you guys so desperately need to carry on the mission set. And as always, we appreciate your patience. So I'll conclude by speaking about the ID card customer support hours of operation that you may see on the slide behind you or behind me seven seven thirty to three o'clock. We are currently appointing appointment only every every Monday military personnel flight will release appointments for the following Monday and the following Tuesday. During this release, the NPF will also release appointments all the way out from 60 to roughly 70 days out. We believe that this will offer the most flexible flexibility to our customers who are looking for those immediate or near term appointments. But when we go 60 to 70 days out, we're going for those who are have less an urgent needs. This course of action, we also believe that is more beneficial to our customers because it keeps you out of standing in lines for long periods of time and inclement weather. So we we see we hear your your comments. We taking your feedback and we take it seriously to the point where our mission support group commander has initiated a continuous process improvement plan where it's going to help us identify trouble areas and the implemented strategies will allow us to ultimately improve our services across the board. So again, I want to thank you for taking the time to listen to what we have to say today. And again, your feedback is always welcomed and thank you for your patience over the current Miller. Thanks teammates truly appreciate all of the updates. As you can see, each country is a good thing. We are making some adjustments to our programs that are out there. You know, some key highlights that you heard about today, fitness center access, I hear about that all the time. And so initially in Delta, we kind of ratcheted down to military only about a week and a half later, we open it up to allow our civilians independence. And now our retiree base is allowed back into our fitness centers. And I will tell you working out in the fitness centers this week, I'm here a lot of excited folks excited to be back in there seeing their friends working on their health, trying to get after those New Year's resolutions. And so welcome back. I'm also excited to see fitness assessments starting back up. I know a few folks that have already tested this week, I've got mine coming up in April. And so I'll be ready for that and excited to knock that out for another year. Chapel services, you see Catholic and Protestant services are also coming back in in residence at limited capacity. And that's the key in Charlie folks. We want to provide you the strength through support that you deserve. We're working hard to keep the missions going. We're also working hard to take care of you and your families. And so we will be opening things up. But the key theme you'll see across them is potentially limited capacity. We still need to do the right things. Things that we have proven worked. And physical distancing is one of those things, maintaining good spacing, especially in some of those operations like eating operations where the mask has to come down while you're eating. And so that spacing is critical to keep folks safe. Now you've heard a lot of positive movement. And we're celebrating the transition from Delta to Charlie. I will tell you Charlie is still serious business, though. Charlie is still high risk. As a matter of fact, if you go to the CDC COVID data tracker and you pull up the state of Ohio, the vast majority of the state is still red, right? And there's a reason it's still high community risk transmission. And this is why we still need to follow the basic blocking and tackling of mitigating measures of wearing that mask of maintaining that physical distancing of practicing good hygiene of optimizing our telework. And that's what the public health emergency declaration gives us the ability to do a little bit more flexibility and supervisors directing folks to telework to keep you safe and to keep the mission going to ensure if you're not feeling well, you're not coming to work and you're getting tested, get vaccinated. I'm proud to say that 97% of our military teammates and 91% of our civilian teammates are fully vaccinated. Because when you look at our surrounding four communities, those vaccination rates for the surrounding four communities range in the 50 to 60%. And if you go to booster shots, we're down in the 40% for those surrounding four communities. And so getting vaccinated, you're doing the right thing there. And for those that are unvaccinated, the way we mitigate that risk is through screening testing, right? And so we're doing what we can to keep the team safe to mitigate the risk and to prevent the spread on installation. And what we see on installation is we're a bit of an island in the community. The cases that we're seeing are not based off of hot spots on base, but what folks are getting through transmission off installation, large gatherings, big events, those types of things. And so we continue to reduce gatherings to that 25% or less in HBCon Charlie because it's still a serious threat. And so yep, we're happy to make the transition from Delta to Charlie, but recognize Charlie is still very real, very serious, and we have mitigating measures in place. But we're trying to do the best that we can to provide the services that you so rightly deserve. So I ask you to continue to get after it. And we will continue to advocate for updated guidance. You heard Lieutenant Colonel Hill talk about the CDC guidance and OSD guidance that was based back in May. And we recognize the situation has evolved. And we continue to engage senior leadership to make sure that we continue to keep that question on the front burner, right? But if you want to know when masks come off, keep an eye on that COVID data tracker. Whenever those counties turn to blue or yellow, that's when we can get to the masks off. But per OSD guidance, if those counties are orange or red, which is substantial or high risk, we wear the masks. And so there are metrics out there that you can keep an eye on to try and figure out when we're going to get there. It is great to start to see Ohio and the CDC COVID data tracker not have all of their counties in red. As a matter of fact, if you look up in that Cleveland area, there are nine counties up that way that are orange. So they're starting to progress down through the color scheme. And we typically lag about a week or two behind the Cleveland area. And we mentioned already, we're seeing the numbers drop pretty fast. And so who knows, we could be an orange soon and fingers crossed, we keep heading in that right direction, get to a yellow, and then we can start to look at the mask stuff. But we recognize guidance is evolving. CDC is always looking at the Center for Disease Controls, always looking at the different recommendations out there. OSD feeds off of the CDC. So if you hear something coming out of the CDC, odds are OSD, the Office of Secretary of Defense, DOD Big is looking at that, evaluating that, and then they will update guidance pushed out to the installations through the Air Force. And then we will go ahead and make those transitions. And so there's a bit of a hierarchy to try and make sure we are protecting missions. And protecting teammates. And that's what the focus is. It's all about you. Until we do these mitigating measures for a reason. I will pause there and just to see if the PA team has any questions for us. Sir, we do. We do have a couple of medical questions, sir. Okay. Well, I'll tell you what, I will step out and let the experts step in. So, Colonel Lyons, all you. Thanks, sir. Hey, sir, first question. What is DOD's position on booster shots? And do booster shots alter the term fully vaccinated? Thanks. That's a great question. Fully vaccinated still means that a person has received a primary series of the COVID-19 vaccines. So let's say, for example, the Pfizer vaccine that we've been distributing, it's the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. To be considered up to date on COVID-19 vaccination means that a person has received all the recommended doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, including the booster dose of the vaccine. So we do know and we try to encourage the folks that being up to date on your COVID-19 vaccination is going to provide you the greatest protection. Sir, thank you. Sir, second question. Why are unvaccinated employees singled out for COVID testing on a weekly basis, even if they have no symptoms? Thank you very much. That's a great question. It comes down to risk management. So we know that those folks who have not been vaccinated are much more likely to have more severe forms of the disease. This includes those folks who may have previously had a COVID infection. Folks who are vaccinated still are much less likely to have severe illness if they're vaccinated, even if you've had COVID-19 previously. So what the home test kits do is they provide a way for us to identify those folks who may be sick with COVID illness. Those folks who are using the home test kits and they're using them correctly for the manufacturer's guidance, we have high sensitivity and specificity of identifying COVID illness if it's present. So it's a good way for us to identify potential of COVID illness and those folks who have been unvaccinated who we know are at greatest risk for more severe disease related to COVID. Sir, thank you. That's a final question, sir. Thank you. That will turn it over to Colonel Muller. Thanks, sir. I appreciate it, Colonel Lyons. You know, I could always take a shot at those, but whenever we've got the experts in the room, I'd much rather put them in front and take those questions. But at the end of the day, it's all about risk mitigation. We're trying to do the best we can, again, to protect the team, protect the mission, and continue pressing forward. Now I will tell you, you're doing a great job at it. You know, what I am proud of is, you know, we're watching the Winter Olympics right now. We're seeing a lot of great athletes compete representing their countries. I'm proud of the athletes, the all stars, the amazing folks, the gold medal winners that we have across this installation that are delivering huge victories each and every day. And so I wish I had a real gold medal that I could put around everyone and one of their necks to say thanks and congratulations because you're absolutely crushing it. You know, you heard about some of our mighty mechs deploying across the U.S. in support of federal emergency management, emergency operations. And then we've got mighty medics here in our medical facility taking care of you and your families holding down the forge. We've got folks at the gates and the fire department and we've got folks interacting with the community all here to take care of you, all here to make sure that we are executing the mission and support of our nation. And we're watching world events, we're seeing what's going on and we need and we know that we need to be ready at a moment's notice. You never know when that call is going to come in. And that's why we do this. That's why it's so important that we're following the basic mitigating measures because if we get that call that our nation needs us either on the home front or abroad, we're ready, right? It's all about being ready to get after it and know that if the nation calls you to serve, it's time to serve, just like we serve each and every day back here. We're running missions from this installation and we're ready to support missions downrange, whatever that downrange looks like. And so I appreciate you sticking with us. These past couple of months were tough as we rolled into HPCon Delta. But like I said, HPCon Charlie, it's a little bit easier, but we still need to maintain the basic measures that we have out there. Wear that mask, maintain that physical distance, but stay socially connected. That's important to get us through this. Practice good hygiene. Keep those hand sanitizers around, wash your hands, use soap, do all those things you need to do. If you're not feeling well, please stay home and get tested. Get checked out. You never know what's going on and you don't want to pass that on to a teammate in the office space or to a loved one at home. And so make sure you get checked out. But most importantly, keep showing up. Keep getting after it. I know this is hard. But together, we're going to be able to continue to beat this thing back. Just like we've made the transition from Delta to Charlie, we're going to make that transition from Charlie to Bravo Plus. And I think we're going to do that soon. So keep getting after it. Thanks for all that you do. If there's anything we can do better to provide you the strength through support that you deserve, let us know. We're here to serve you. Thanks, teammates.


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Okay, we're gonna look at an example of an experiment and to assist us or to be more efficient. Now, if we were all hanging out together, you know that we would, all of us could come up with different hypotheses and we could all like form groups and then share out our examples. But because we're not all sharing space, I'm gonna attempt to make this a little bit easier. I really encourage you to sort of predict, like use this video here to predict the different aspects of the experimental design that we're gonna be talking about. So before the answer comes through, like push pause and then holler out because the doggies are really good at hollering out while you're in a lecture with me on video. Get your kids to join in, get your partners, people at the library, like everybody can participate in this interactive process through this video. So I came up with the hypothesis and this is, I wanna look at what we expect about a hypothesis, like how do we know what makes a good hypothesis? And we've talked about it a jillion times. So let's, we can check ourselves to see if this is a good hypothesis. My hypothesis is house plants can grow in red light because all light contains red wavelengths. And so the red light won't matter to chloroplast function. There's a couple of things I wanna bring out or point out in this. Number one, this is explanatory. There's information in this hypothesis. We haven't talked about plants before, but now you know that all light contains red wavelengths. That information is included in the hypothesis and chloroplasts are involved in light. Chloroplasts need light to keep plants alive. We've got those pieces of information that make this hypothesis. It's not just a random, well, it has explanatory power, which is good. The next question we should check is, is it testable? Do you think that this, can you think of a way to test this hypothesis and push pause and think it through? Like, how would you test this? Just come up with an idea. I wouldn't have come up with a hypothesis that wasn't testable. So by the end of this, you will see that, yes, indeed, this absolutely is testable if you're kind of going like, I don't know how it is testable. And is it falsifiable? How do you know if the answer is no? They can't grow in red light. How are you gonna know if that is true? Well, they might die or they're not going to have as robust growth. They might have fewer leaves. There are things that are going to happen to them that will indicate that they are not thriving in the red light. Now, let's identify the variables. Remember, before I even do this, the independent variable, one thing, what is the one thing that we are changing here? What is our one independent variable? In this case, the independent variable should be light color. And I'm imagining that we would have regular light and red light. And those would be our two groups that the plant is either gonna get regular light or it's gonna get red light and we're gonna compare. I'm going to have a suggestion for possible, another possible thing for us to consider. Our dependent variables are all the things that we can measure to indicate growth. And again, like, dude, we can go all day long. Leaf biomass, weight, height.  I want that included in there. We could go all day long. I guarantee I'm not thinking of all the things that are dependent variables that we could control or that we could measure and draw conclusions. And then what are the things that we wanna control? In all the groups, every single plant, what are the things that are gonna be the same with every single plant? The type of plant. We gotta keep the type of plant the same, right? Probably the age of the plant. Maybe the size of the plant. Going at, you know, maybe a three week old plant. We wanna pick the three week old plants that are all the same size because some of them are bigger and some of them are smaller. We want these qualities controlled as much as possible so that we know when we make our changes, it's based on light. Now, now is the part where we need to talk about our controls. And this is a really good example. Again, push pause and think about those controls because I think we have a good example of a way to have a negative control and a way to have a positive control. I already said that we should have a group of plants that have regular light. I would argue that a plant with regular light is gonna be our positive control. Do you agree with that? And I'm making that case because that regular light is gonna show us the kind of growth that we would expect if everything is just normal. Light is light, then if the plant grows just as well in red light as in regular light, then we will have our answer. The other, how could we do a negative control? Well, what would it look like if the plant didn't do well in the red light? We could have a negative control of what? No light. That would tell us what it would look like with our plants not having any light at all. Here's our design. Now we're ready to take measurements and collect data and look at the numbers in those dependent variables that we've identified. When we collect data, when we take measurements, this is going, for me, our last two sections are the least inspiring part. I would love to just stop it here and then just be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, measurements. Know how to do them. And yeah, yeah, yeah, graphing, do that too. I am going to suck it up, me, and talk through units of measurement and why it's important and how we move in and out of units of measurement, like how we convert between units. And I'm gonna talk about graphing as well. So I'm not done, but now we're into some lab detail stuff that's probably important skill-wise, but you can tell that I'm really looking forward to it, huh? Okay, I'll be right back.


Tarzan and the Diamond of Arshere. Pan has organized and taken charge of the James Gregory expedition for the purpose of tracing, if possible, Gregory's son, Brian, the lost archaeologist. Atan Tom, a suave, highly-cultured oriental, believes Tarzan to be the missing scientist. Wolfe, a corrupt guide and magra and Eurasian girl, both tools of Tom, have attached themselves to the Gregory party in order to gain possession of a map showing the location of the forbidden city of Arshere, which Tom believes Tarzan has. On a Congo riverboat, the night before the party is due to arrive at Bunga, the starting point of the safari into the jungle, a mysterious message falls at the feet of Darno. It is the following morning. The boat has docked at Bunga. Larson, the sweet hunter, is actively in charge of the unloading of the supplies and equipment. Assure Tarzan is directing the natives. On the fringe of this scene of mad excitement, Helen Gregory stands with her father and Lieutenant Darno. Look, Lieutenant, it's just like a three-ring circus. Tarzan certainly understands how to handle natives. May we? The jungle and the natives are like an open book to Tarzan. But if you, Monsieur Gregory, had not made previous arrangements through Monsieur Michel, we might have been tied up here for weeks. Wolfe, the hunter and the magra stand together behind a shed at the end of the dock. Who will ruin everything with your idea of Oswald? We can only get a map through diplomacy. Diplomacy, ah, bah. Just leave it to me, magra. There's only one way. We'll talk in sports. The landing of supplies is finished. Tarzan has assigned the last of the bills and boxes to the waiting bearers, and the head of the safari is just leaving the little river town of Bunga to plunge into the jungle. Well Tarzan, we've been making a good beginning, and we are off into the blues. We camp early tonight. These people aren't used to jungle travel. A good idea. And I know you're the place for the first camp. No, all right. Go ahead then, and from now on you'll take charge of camp bearers and leaders. Yeah, sure. You have everything right at the end that you've fixed. If Nelson is to take the lead, Tarzan, it might be a good idea for me to bring up the rear. To keep an eye out for lost equipment will need even stragglers, eh? Yes, Wolfe, and you might as well keep that position. Now that we're underway, let's catch up with the others. Well, Pasiwit Bunga, I have a little surprise for you. What is it? On the boat last night, when you and the others had gone to bed, Tarzan came to me with a story about Wolfe. He is suspicious of the German. Oh, so? Wolfe told Tarzan all about the map of Acher. Hmm, the map again, huh? And while Tarzan was talking, someone threw a note at my feet. Threw a note at your feet? Yes, tied around a block of wood. What did it say? I have it here in my pocket. I shall show it to you. God, are you sure you put it in your pocket? Positive, in this one. Well, what did it say? Just two words. Watch. What? Who threw the note? I have been thinking about it. There is only one person who might wish to warn us in that particular manner, and you know who it's as well as I. Magra. And it most certainly corroborates Tarzan's story. But why would Magra send the warning that day when she could have told either of us in the morning? I do not know unless she is afraid of Wolfe. In that case, Tarno, we'll do as the note says. Watch Wolfe. Now let's catch the others. But you are nervous, Monami. Is it because of what I have just told you? Oh no, it's these clothes. They're tight and uncomfortable. I can't move freely in them. Put it. But civilization demands that you keep them on, at least until the others have become accustomed to your jungle habits. Civilization. That's why I'm in the jungle again, to get away from your civilization. Which breeds such men as Com Wolfe and Laltas. But look, Mamoiselle Ellen seems to be awaiting us beside the trail there. Why are you lagging behind the others, Mamoiselle? I wanted to speak to you and Tarzan. What is it, Miss Gregory? It's about Dad. One of the chief reasons for my being here is to look after him. This is all bound to be new to him, you know, and perhaps difficult. I understand. And for that reason, we are traveling only a short distance today. In fact, we shall soon arrive at our first camp, Mamoiselle, which Larsson is already preparing. A riverboat which is just as low angle, Tom and Laltas are seated together in its stern, discussing their plans for following Tarzan and the Gregory expedition. Is it not possible that we will arrive in Bunga before Brian Gregory's expedition has entered the jungle at dawn? That is very unlikely, Laltas. Gregory eager to get underway will permit no delays. Certainly, his object is to reach what he believes to be Tuanbaka. The mountain wherein our share is said to be hidden as quickly and secretly as possible. And Magra? If she fails to attack you through their party? Magra will not fear me. She's clever. You have never given her due credit, my friend. Yet if she fails? In that case, she will await us at Bunga and we shall follow the Gregory parties we have planned the day or two behind them. When do you propose to overtake Brian Gregory? Not until he is close to his destination. And how are we to learn when that will be? That will be for you to find out. It will be your duty to keep in touch with Magra if she is with them or Wolf if she is not. That will have to be done at it. Brian Gregory will certainly watch his back trail during the day. As I would if I were in his place. However, we have merely to exercise care in our movements and he never know that we are following him. At my suggestion Wolf will bring up the rear of Gregory's party. Which should make it less difficult and dangerous to Wolf or Magra. Dangerous? In what way? Because Brian Gregory is already suspicious of us. He is resourceful and powerful as a water buffalo. I know he nearly killed me the other night at the hotel. And you are not anxious to come to grips with him again eh? Is that it eh? If it happens again I shall kill him. You will not kill Brian Gregory my friend. At least not until the mamba share is in my hand or until he has found the way into to and baka.  I shall protect myself at least.  I understand that tantrum. Meanwhile, a few miles above Bunga, the Gregory safari is making its first camp in the African jungle. The soft velvety blackness of night is crept out of the forest and settled densely about the thornboma encircling the encampment of whites and blacks. The chatter of monkeys and the commotion of birds dies away. To give place to the wild calls of savage life awakening to the hunt. The Gregory party has gathered about its campfire after supper for a few last moments talking in for the night. Many listen to that fellow. He bet you he been hungry. I've heard that lions or any of the big cats won't bother a man unless they are hungry. But when they sing out like that I'd rather be up a good high tree. Into melee trunks they've seen tigers go up trees. Oh good heavens, I didn't know lions and tigers could climb trees. I've never heard of that. Is it a fact Tarzan? Well there are no tigers in Africa, but I have seen Numa reach the low branches of a small tree. Numa? What animal is that? Numa, memos and magrise, what the greater, a certain tribe of jungle dwellers call the lion. The natives call him Simba. Hey, him and that farabane close. He sounds like a big one too. Is there any danger Tarzan? No, not if we stay inside the poma. I wouldn't want to be outside that thorn fence and meet Mr. Leo.  With a good rifle in my hands and pretty of distance between us? No. Well I hope they leave us alone. I'm not at all anxious to meet them, even with a good rifle. No, my dear, the closest I have ever been to a lion or ever wish to be is on the outside of a good strong cage with a lion inside. Yes, Mr. Gregory, lions are beautiful, but from a distance only. Yeah, sure.  Look, the natives, they are beginning to dance. Looks like they are getting ready for a pow-wow of some kind. They are merely celebrating the fact that they are employed, Mr. Gregory. Uh, they'll keep it up all night, without them spilling mavenbe. Native beer, ma'am, was there. It is quite the usual thing among native barers. And we may be here for two, three days, waiting for them to get over the effects of their yak. Yeah, better put a stop to it, before they go too far. Leave them alone, Wolf. Their celebration won't hold us up. Yeah, but mind God, Tarzan, if they feel themselves up with that stuff, they won't be worth up any kind of more. I'll take care of that.  Yeah, he'll be getting out of his way. The fellow's getting pretty excited. They see that he is. Keep quiet. Then there's no need to break any silk-red or young ladies. Keep quiet. Nothing. That big boy is going to run amok. He has picked up a spear and is shaking, isn't that, Tarzan? Tarzan, that fellow is coming straight for our fire. I'm going to plug that gun. Put that gun away. Put our son. You better get the women out of the way. Put that gun away, Wolf. You too, Tarzan. Keep that gun. Now put it away and stand back. Donald, take care of the women.


What's going on guys welcome to another video in today's video I'm gonna give you as many tips as I can in one minute about this month's lucky tackle box Let's hop into it right when you open the box the first thing that you're gonna see in here is these rage Swimmers and these are gonna be perfect to throw on the back of like a fish head spin If you want to throw them weightless you can as well You can actually put them on a regular swim bait head moving through the water It's perfect imitation for a bait fish swimming through the water second bait that we have in this box Is this castanik little catch 22 swim bait It's gonna be a perfect moving style bait that you can swim through the water really fast You can burn it really fast You can fish it really slow and cover a lot of water and hope to catch a lot of big bass Moving on to some of the soft plastics in this box. You got riot baits little crawl trailers That's gonna be perfect to put on the bottom of a jig And you could also throw that on a hook and a weight and rig it Texas rig for that slow Presentation for this fish really finicky last for the soft plastics You got the mr. Twister which you could rig weightless you could throw it on a shaky head You could throw it on the back of a chatter bait. You could throw it Texas rig There's a lot of different ways you can rig this bait And if there's fish are really finicky it's gonna be perfect to put in front of their face They can bite moving into the last two products into the box We get the live target bait ball series crank bait This is gonna be perfect for a moving style bait to be throwing a lot and covering a lot of water More of an opportunity to get that bait in front of their face and catch a lot of fish Lastly you got the lunker hunt Seasick and this bait is a jerk bait style of bait and starts going to dive zero to six foot You can cover a lot of water especially on those windy days when you needed to be throwing a moving bait And you're wanting to cover as much water as possible and you can still be a finesse and fast moving at the same time overall guys I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you could please comment below how long you have been bass fishing so I can layer it down on what kind of tips I want to show you guys for like beginners and people that are more advanced and Also, be sure to smash the like button on this video and subscribe if you haven't already and hit the little bell for post notifications I might start posting more videos like this So let me know below if you like these one minute short quick tip videos because I want to bring more content to you guys And I want to make it very convenient and very quick and easy for you guys to listen to and learn But thank you guys so much for watching and I'll catch you guys in the next video Oh one last thing I forgot about the good wipes.


Russia sends the newest T-14 tanks to the Ukraine front. Russia has deployed its latest tank, the T-14 Armata, to Ukraine. But they have not yet participated in direct assault operations. The RIA state news agency reported, quoting a source close to matter. The Russian armed forces have started using the latest T-14 Armata main tanks to shell Ukrainian positions. But these tanks have not yet participated in direct assault operations. An informed source told RIA Novosti, according to the disseminated information, the tank received additional side protection armor. It was placed to protect the chasis and tank from enemy anti-tank missiles. According to the agency, the T-14 Armata has been operating in Donbas since the end of last year. It is said that the tanks have been fitted with extra protection on their flanks and crews have undergone combat coordination at training grounds in Ukraine. The T-14 tank has unmanned turret, with crew controlling the armaments from an isolated armored capsule located in front of the hull. Until the first T-14 was produced in 2015, Russia's most modern tank, the T-90, was a heavily upgraded version of the 1970s era T-72 and was designed around its chasis. In January, British military intelligence reported that Russian forces in Ukraine were reluctant to accept the first tranche of the tanks due to their poor condition. It also said that any deployment of the T-14 would likely be a high-risk decision for Russia and one taken primarily for propaganda purposes. Production is probably only in low tens while commanders are unlikely to trust the vehicle in combat, the British military said. 11 years in development, the programme has been dodged with delays, reduction in planned fleet size and reports of manufacturing problems. There is not official information on how many manufactured T-14 armata tanks there are.