 How has being a power athlete helped my Navy career stay in shape as a Navy officer? This is Jim Reinhardt, and this is my Navy sea story. My dad served 21 years in the Navy. He joined right after high school, and I've just been submerged into the Navy life ever since I was born. I was born while he was stationed at NAS Lamor in Fresno. He was at AO, retired as a first class. I don't know, just seeing him in uniform and all the other kids in school, he would pick me up from school. He was just seen as like the cool, like hero, like G.I. Joe type. And I was like, wow, that's so cool. That's the coolest dad ever. So I was like, I want to wear that uniform too, because I want to be cool just like him. I had my son when I was active duty in the Navy. It was my last year of active military service. And it wasn't too difficult at that time balancing, because I had my child in daycare through the CDC. And you know, in the mornings, you know, I just have to wake up, I wake up like five in the morning, you know, pump before, take my son to daycare now after work, and then from work, then I go pick up from daycare and go home and enjoy my time with him afterwards. I knew about rugby in high school, because I always see people in the community like play in the park, you know, I could pick up rugby games. And I didn't know like where I should look or anything until my senior year of college, they started up a rugby team called the Seahawks. So I was like, I don't really have much. It's my last semester, and I'm already, I already front-listed all my classes. So like my last year, I was just basically just, you know, I was like, oh my God, a free time. I should pick up rugby. It looks like fun. And I would like to take out some aggression, you know, and just be able to tackle people. That'd be awesome. It wasn't until like a year and a half after I joined the Navy that I was like, hmm, let me see if I can find when I got stationed in Augusta, Georgia. It's like, hmm, let me see if they have a Roman's rugby team. Because that'll be fun to get back into. Just for, you know, just for fitness, for fun, and the camaraderie of being a part of a rugby game. I was like, oh, I found, I was Googling. I was like, oh, I found it. The Augusta Furries. That's so cool. We made it to the top three on the Eastern Conference Championships. One of the USA Rugby Coaches was there. One of the assistant coaches, Martha Vaines, she was there. And she was only there to scout the other team members that we were playing against. She was so blown away between myself and my other teammates. A week later, she's like, we're having a camp in Virginia and we want you to be there. You know, we're expecting to see such great performance out of you all, both of all of you. And we would like to see how you can perform at the elite level. So starting and getting onto the Eagles radar. So between camps, many camps that we had there and the full-time training there, you know, the pool kept just getting smaller and smaller until the final, I guess, two months, three months prior. So when, you know, I sat down with Pete Steinberg giving me feedback on my, you know, my progress. He says I've done a lot and he would love to see me on the pitch at the World Cup. What it felt like to me being in Ireland and like, like the biggest moment, like, that I felt, I would say as soon as we touched down in Ireland and we got off the plane, we were walking through, you know, the airport and seeing the, I guess, the monumental display of women's rugby World Cup 2017. And I was like, really? I'm here? This is it? I'm in Ireland? This is so crazy. And then, like, being selected and being rostered to play against Spain and then lining up and singing the National Anthem with my teammates, it was just a surreal moment I couldn't believe it. I started playing rugby for fun and just the outlet for me. But now, like, this is serious. Coach! The Americans arrived in Dublin wanting to make rugby compete. All the time, all the time. And, yeah, this is how they wanted to see 2023, because Spain's big shot comes in from the Americans and the front rows go up and America walk over the top. Greg is taking the midfield from Colton and now America play on. You don't stop and watch. You've got to carry on to the referee product. This status gets it out. Here come America! Just being there and being able to switch out. Like, I just felt like, you know, I was just changing the forms, you know. Being a Navy officer, being an equal. I guess the one thing that, or I have a few things that stand out to me is in my military service. But the one thing that really sticks out to me is meeting, you know, a lot of great people in my life. And a lot of it was because of the military service. So, you know, it's just like, you know, there's a lot of great people in my life and a lot of it was because of the military. And there are people that I would trust with my own life, my own son's life. Because there's just how close we became. Just meeting them with their own deployment. Even people who I was stationed with. It's just that camaraderie and just, I don't know, it's very personal to me. Because I never felt like that. Anything else in my life, as far as like going to school or community activities, I feel like the Navy has brought in my family. You know, we're not being related though, but we're pretty close like we are. And I would say, you know, my experiences like deploying and meeting all those people, people I worked with, people who worked for me, it's just I would not trade that experience because I miss a pretty great people.