 Hi, my name is Jessica Knuck and I'm a 4-H State Ambassador Gardner. Do you want to introduce yourself? Okay, my name is Jordan Gardner. I am a recruiter in the United States Navy. I've been in the Navy for 70 years. I'm stationed out here in Alabama. Okay, so what was your major in college? Okay, my major in college was, I was a business administration major. I started at the University of Arkansas also and then I moved out to Alabama. Now I'm at the University of Alabama to complete my BA. And what is the date like on your job? Okay, so it's just two parts. So right now as a recruiter my day, I spend most of my day talking to applicants about the opportunities that the Navy has to offer about their personal goals and goals that they might want to achieve in their career and to align to see if the Navy can help them achieve that goal. How has the coronavirus affected your job? Just like anybody else. It has made my job a little bit difficult with getting in front of a lot of different applicants. A lot of my market has been high school seniors and college students. So with the lack of being able to go, getting schools, getting in front of students, being able to talk with them face to face, that has impacted the way we do things in recruiting to a lot of things is now virtual. We have to do a lot of things on Skype, Microsoft Teams, but the fact that we can get out and get our face in front of people, coronavirus has kind of slowed us down on that front. And what is the best thing about your job? So the best thing I would say about my job is bridging a gap where an individual might have like, hey, this is what I want to achieve and bridging the gap to help them achieve that goal with like, okay, here's the route that you can take. Here's the programs and things that can help you get there. Here's the accolades and the certificates degree plan to help somebody say, okay, they thought that that goal was impossible to now possible. Is the Navy something that you wanted to do when you were younger, or did you have a different idea of what did you do? So for me, service was a, in my plan, the Navy was not. So when I was in college, I always knew that, hey, okay, I would take some time to do service. I was going to do, my original plan was to do four years. But I talked to all branches, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy. And at the end of it, at the beginning of it, Navy was, I couldn't swim. So I couldn't, I didn't, Navy was never on the top of my list as a non-swimmer at that time, about after weighing my options and speaking to every branch. And you know, you fast forward seven years later. I believe I enjoyed this, what I do for living and all the benefits I've received, I made the right decision for me. Do you suggest the Navy for anyone going into, or planning to go into any service? Absolutely. My advice to everybody is if you're looking and going to service, do what I did. I would say go look at every branch, because every branch there's a branch for you. So if you're looking for specific things out of, you know, benefits or education or adventure or whatever you might want to do career-wise, research and look in and speak to a lot of different people and find out where's your fit. Because it's just like a lot of personalities, the Navy has a right fit for some people. And it was right for me, but it might not be right for everybody. So my advice was just, do you do your due diligence, research, speak to people, talk to different recruiters and what feels comfortable to you, then you should pursue that. And then my final question is what advice would you give youth interested in your job? So for me, and if you're just now joining, you couldn't be a recruiter. A recruiter is a step that you get some experience. You got to be like put up for this year, but any advice for anybody who's going into the Navy in general, my advice would be to go in with an open mind, remember why and what reasons were important to you and all stay open to learn a lot of different things. Because it's going to be at the very beginning, it's just going to be very different for whatever you used to. Okay. And everybody's experience is different. So when you go in, my advice would be go in with an open mindset to experience new things and meet new people. And then you learn and grow from there. All right. That's all the questions that I have for you today. Do you have anything that you want to add to something that you said before? Go Navy, beat Army.