 My name is Tamasi Wong. I'm from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Originally I didn't really have a plan after high school. I thought college was a nice idea so I joined up to go to school. And then after I joined up, I kinda hopped on the bandwagon and wanted to live in the Army life so I went from being enlisted to going to ROTC at LSU and commissioning from there. I commissioned right in December of 2022. Started LSU as soon as I got out of basic training in AIT when I came back into the reserves. I wanted to be a leader. I think that was always kind of my calling throughout my life is to lead others and be like a steward of the profession, kind of, you know, lead from the front. It's kind of what I've been doing my entire life, being able to sibling everything, sending an example for other people. So I think that's kind of what motivated me to start, you know, thinking about the officer out. Originally I was planning on branching armor. My dad, he was in the military and he was a tanker. But, you know, I gave it a long heart thought and my mom, who was also a military, she was a air defense crewman. She was like, it was the best thing you'll ever do in your life. She said, FA, all that does not compare to ADA. I said, all right, mom. Now I love it, you know, I'm enjoying life, being in Bullock, enjoying my time out here, learning a lot of good things. Bullock's been treating me great. The course is strenuous at times, but as long as you're good with task organization and you're keeping, you know, you're minding your P's and Q's and you're staying on your feet, you know, Bullock, it can either make or break you and right now it's making me. So I'm enjoying it. You're written decisive about joining the military. I think it's an experience that everybody should do. The military gives you a lot of core discipline values that a lot of people will need in their lives. And it's not a bad experience. You make it how you want it. So, you know, if you have a positive mindset going into it, you're gonna have a positive outcome. What I would say is take your time, really think about what you want out of the military, what you want your career to look like and then go with your best two or three options that'll get you there.