USS Virginia

... and say, "Here we are." So I started down this journey, uh, and the first place I landed was out at, uh, Naval Postgraduate School.

And I will tell you, so if you rewind a little bit back from that, in about 2018 when I took command of USS Pittsburgh, I had a friend on his submarine, he was commanding the USS Virginia, that said, "Hey, I'm, I got a, I bought a 3D printer.

I'm making parts." And I'm like, "You're making parts? Like, what are you talking about? Like key chains?" And he was like, "No, no, no.

I'm making parts." One of the first parts he made, fairly simple polymer, on board a submarine, uh, was a, a fix to the dish, uh, the dish sink in our galley.