Now I feel good. It's been a long journey of
course,
and it's a political decision that when the armed forces
in the Swedish Navy really stands by,
stand by and
unfortunately it's a necessary move,
big move in Swedish national policy.
But for sure it's about the security environment in the
our part of Europe.
And since I started in the Navy
2009,
we have, we haven't been in the alliance,
but we have been cooperating with all of the nation
acting in the Baltic Sea,
in the Baltic Sea region that are part of the
alliance.
We have been using English as our working language for
command and control when at sea and I'm in the
framework,
the Partnership for Peace program we have.
So
the the preparations from my point of view have been
ongoing for quite many years
and I don't think we we feel very readily
and
prepared for this.
They could last for me or SIA don't friendly as
I'm handy.
OK, I'm so common with that
it feels
quite quite important to to be here.
We are doing our basic basic training
and the Swedish Marines and we definitely feel the impact
that the NATO,
NATO membership has on
on us and and our duties.
I,
as I said the not to froyen
Fisi border, Ferro Naktila and Naktila was in.
I landed in
neutral
Tiat
again, the Finns and the Norwegians and just learning how
to operate something.
I mean they they had plans for an embassy reception
in Washington DC to happen,
so to say. And I'm sure that we will see
TV shot.
Sweden gets Article Five of the Washington Treaty,
so security guarantees and guarantees that NATO members will come
and defend Swedish territory in the case of an attack.
And NATO gets an ally who contributes its own military
assets to the defense of other NATO allies,
but also the geography of this ally,
which will allow the alliance to have a much more
holistic take on pretty much all of northeastern Europe,
now that the entire territory of northeastern Europe will be
NATO territory
of
the Swedish Armed Forces on drum and building.