 I was like, you know, 23 years old. I was living with my mom. I couldn't find a job, so trying to go back to school, I couldn't afford it. I called my uncle, just distraught, and he's like, why do you rethink the Air Force? Come to find out. If you go into security forces, go through school, everything like that, go to your first base. You can actually volunteer and get the Kennel Masters approval to go to K&I school, so that's exactly what I did. What was hard for me was trying to find the time to come and volunteer. Because once you're done working, normal schedule, you're exhausted. There was days where I was off. I would force myself to come here because this is really what I wanted to do. Go out with the trainers and the other handlers and see what kind of problems that they would do. So that way I can understand the basic concepts of detection work and patrol work. Knowing my grandpa was in the Air Force before me and he was a K9 handler at Myring, it kept me wanting to keep going because I wanted to make myself proud, but I also wanted to make him proud because I was following his footsteps.