The

The Welcome. I am so excited to be here tonight. And it is going to freak me out because I haven't been

out here before now as I'm looking out in the audience I'm seeing people that I know some dear

dear old friends and a number of former friends that I don't want to be here thank you for coming

there are a number of special guests in the audience.

This is kind of funny.

I was told my friend Martha Linder is here from Lakeland, Florida,

and she told me that Colonel Sussingham is going to be there.

And I thought, who the heck is Colonel Sussingham?

And then Mark Helperin introduced me to him.

He was a test pilot for the F-16s. Is that right?

The chief test pilot for the F-16s. Defining the envelope, not like those other test pilots.

They hang way, way back. He actually was pushing the envelope of what it could do. So a real test pilot, but he dropped the first smart bomb, the first J-dam. And I thought, that is so cool. And I wanted to call him out and embarrass him in front of the group. So please applaud this man. If you get a chance, not now, if you get

a chance later on, you can applaud him. And then also, you know, since I'm calling out

people who have done great things in the air, some of you remember eight or ten months

ago, a Southwest plane lost an engine.

A person was killed and a heroic woman landed that plane.

Her name is Tammy Joe Schultz and she's with us in the room.

Where are you, Tammy Joe? Don't be embarrassed. Where did she go?

Where is she? She's right here. She's right here.

Look, she's all embarrassed.

I love it. I love embarrassing people. They can't squirm away. They have to take the applause.

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