For everybody here—and for our friends in the press—what you see behind me is what the warrior ethos looks like. It’s what reestablishing it looks like.

It doesn’t happen in the halls of the Pentagon. It doesn’t happen in the halls of Congress.

It happens in training centers like this, with Americans like this—who do really difficult things in really tough places.

That’s what we’re doing with the ACCC out here with PANAMAX: expanding peace through strength in our hemisphere, right here in the jungles with our partners, in a way that SOUTCOM just wasn’t doing 18 months ago.

There was a whole different set of priorities not focused on the Western Hemisphere, not focused on securing the homeland, not focused on making sure we go after drug traffickers and designated terrorist organizations.

Under President Trump, we know exactly what that mission looks like.

Today, we launched the motto of the ACCC, which is "We do bad things to bad people."

For too long, bad people did bad things to good people inside the United States of America and across Central and South America.

We are going to empower great Americans and great partners to do really good stuff and be very capable at bringing violence against drug cartels and designated terrorist organizations because we're dead serious about securing the homeland.

We will not allow foreign malign influence to take over key terrain, like the Panama Canal.

It is night and day—go talk to anybody who looked at SOUTHCOM.

I was not joking when I talked about what the priorities were. It was gender issues, climate change, and diversity. It was like USAID, but with some guns.