Sec. Pete Hegseth spoke with troops during a visit to Panama on Wednesday.
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00:01Thank you very much, Commander. What an honor it is to be here. Please, at ease. I can see some of you, not all of you. I'll try to move around so I can. Come on in. You can stay in the shade, too, if you want. I don't want anybody baking, because I've been there.
00:18The last thing you want is a long speech in the hot sun. But I just want to tell you what a privilege it is to be here amongst, you know, that song says American soldiers, and people use the phrase soldiers all the time. I know I'm here with sailors, with marines, members of the Coast Guard, all members of our joint force.
00:42And whether it's soldiers, sailors, or marines, what you are, are warriors. You are warriors on behalf of a grateful nation. I can't think of a more beautiful scene than standing on the USS Chosen, a cruiser, here just outside the Panama Canal, where we're working with our partners in real time to secure American interests.
01:08No more paper charts in the Navy. We still have the chart tables, and we can still get the charts, the paper charts to kind of look at, and look at all of our navigations done using the factory charting system.
01:19We have known to the tactics cabin, two goes on the bridge, one of the charters, and they're going in combat.
01:25So we're all able to stay on the same page, communicate about the location, contact coordinates, and that the combat needs us to drive tactically, to bring us to bear what the place may be.
01:34We pass all that information going to a phone, so that we're actually more reactive.
01:38Yes, sir.
01:39Yes, sir.
01:40Yes, sir.
01:41Yes, sir.
01:45The nice thing about the system, as opposed to a paper chart, is you can click on something and query it.
01:51So if you don't know what it is, you can ask the system, and it will give you all the information.
01:56All the passes, sir.
01:56All the passes, sir.
02:11All the passes, sir.