Malphe's Closing Address, May 2018

Being Minister of Defense for the last four months has certainly been a learning experience for me. I've interacted with players and organizations throughout GP and overall, I'd like to think I did a decent job. Activity is up, my deputies have done a fantastic job, we had a passable amount of joint operations and we've smashed the previous record of detags in a term (which has actually earned the NPA a repuation as rampant detaggers, funnily enough). I'll be the first to concede though, mainly because I'm the one that knows best, that I could've done better. I didn't give the Auxiliary enough operations to stretch it's legs and I worry that our pile numbers might've suffered as a result, I didn't lead as many joint operations as I would've liked; one or two were planned but never saw the light of day and many of the bigger operations were either partly organized by Gladio or brought to me by a foreign Commander, as opposed to me organizing it personally.

I overall haven't left the NPA in a bad state, and I believe that in the upcoming term the NPA could expand it's potential greatly.

But four months as MoD has left me pretty burnt out, so much so that I actually considered resigning half way through my term. I haven't made any secret that I won't be MoD next term, but with RL getting hectic, I don't think I can continue to serve in the NPA at all next term. I'll stick around for the delegacy transition, but I intend to leave afterwards. I'll stay in TNP and in GP, but probably with more sporadic activity. This isn't due to any grievances with TNP or the NPA, just that I haven't got the time right now and I want to free up my WA.

Fin,

[me]
Minister of Defense

Thank you for your service to the NPA. It's been a pleasure serving both as an officer and as a deputy minister under you. Sorry we ran you off. I know we were mean to you sometimes. But you gotta admit you deserved it.
Only joking of course, it will be sad to see you leave us. Take it easy Malphe!

Thank you for your service to the region Malphe. You will always have a home in the NPA. O7

Thank you so much Malphe for leading us. Had a lot of fun.
Good luck RL and I hope I'll see you around!

Cheers, Malphe. Your prescence will be missed.

Thanks malphe for your service as MoD

Thanks for everything you've done this term Malphe. It takes real resilience and leadership to manage the Defense ministry, and I'm proud of you.