 I'm Bill Sidonstein, and I'm a proud Navy veteran. I was the first Navy reservist to become an LDO in 6490, law enforcement. Now, for a young sailor getting out of boot camp, you've made a big jump. Now you've got to make something out of your career. And even if you don't want to stay in the Navy, you've learned how to take orders. Soon you'll learn how to give orders. And you've learned a lot of techniques and a lot of things that, in whatever rate you're in, that'll help you for the rest of your life. It's a great education, just going into the military and having to follow orders. And then ultimately to be a leader is fantastic. You can't be a leader unless you've been a subordinate and a follower. And it's a great lesson. Whenever I see a sailor in uniform or a guy who comes on a police force who's in the reserves or might not want to, I said, you know what? Go back, make a career out of it. It's the best thing you can do in your life. It changed my life, and that's why I went back in the reserves when I got out. That's why I became an LDO. And the only sad thing about the Navy is they don't let old people serve anymore. You do your job and you help your bosses and you help the Navy. The Navy is going to do more than they can to help you. Take care of your troops, and your troops will take care of you. It's a cliche, but it works. I helped found the NYPD US Navy Association. That's police officers who have served in the Navy and also police officers. And whenever we have a ceremony, we have active duty people, reservists, and we're all shipmates in the finest tradition of the named shipmate. The NYPD and the District Attorney's Office is very proactive in hiring veterans and also picking up veterans for good assignments in different units. Being in the best military branch in the world, the greatest country in the world, I have to be patriotic. I'm patriotic. I love my country. And I think when I die and they have to do an autopsy, they'll find NYPD blow in one arm and US Navy blow in the other. It's something that never leaves you.