 I'm Jillian Boyo J-I-L-L-I-A-N-B-O-J-O-H, and I'm a specialist at Third Infantry Division Band. Representing Third Infantry Division in this capacity, oh man that got real pageant-y real fast. It's really an honor to represent Third Infantry Division here at the River Band Festival, especially with the rock band. We're a popular music group, and it's really fun to be invited to events like this and get to interact with the local community as well as help out with recruiting missions. Nice. How does it feel to play music in front of a live audience? It's amazing. It's a feeling unlike anything else. Just, you know, getting that one-on-one interaction with different people in the crowd, just contributing to the overall mood and atmosphere of certain events like this. You just, you can't really describe it until you do it, but it's a lot of fun. This is what we live to do. We love playing live. We love, especially after the past few years, we love being out and interacting with the public, and so we love it. Playing live music is what we've all wanted to do for our entire lives, so we're happy to do it. What does music mean to you? Music is probably my favorite form of communication, no matter what language a person speaks, age, any other factors. People usually can relate to each other through music, and it's a great way to share experiences with other people. Like I said, it's one of the first ways that we learn to communicate. I mean, if you think about when you're a little child singing nursery rhymes all the way up to special events where we do ceremonial things, music just enriches the human experience. The Division Band positively influenced the Third Infantry Division. One of the main ways that we positively influence the Third Infantry Division would be contributing to ceremonial events. One that particularly stood out to me, this is my first duty station, and so I was kind of struggling to find my purpose and my place, but we just did a Memorial Day service, and what really resonated with me was some of the Gold Star families. They said it meant a lot to have live musicians back again after, like I said, the past few years where we weren't able to do community events, and a woman just came up to me and just held on to my hand and said, you know, I really thank you guys for coming out and honoring our families like this. So events and celebrations I feel is the way that we most positively contribute, but again we like to do community outreach, we like to do fun nights, like the right arm nights and everything like that. So I think we just add a little bit of an element of fun as well as that reverence for ceremonies.