 at the 37th annual National Disabled Veteran Winner Sports Clinic, and I'm here with Hyram who is a fellow Army veteran and actually we served in the 101st Airborne Division at the same time kind of crazy, right? And you're a bootloader. Can you explain to people what the heck that is? So what a bootloader is? We have so the amputee and paralyzed veterans, they get loaded onto things called boots. They're basically sleds on skis in order to get them onto the lifts You need to do a little bit of lifting and well just shifting to make so that they can sit down and get up the mountain safely Lifting and shifting put that on a bumper sticker right there In fact, we have a boot coming down right now. There we go right behind us there Yeah, Hyram's doing his job while he's letting me kind of crash his gig here I really appreciate it and you're a VA employee on Salt Lake City. What do you do for them? Well, I'm actually the community care program manager for vision 19 So that's for the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Oklahoma. Wow And it's your first year out here volunteering. What really motivated you to come out here? Well one I'm a I'm a veteran and a disabled one as well and I find this really amazingly rewarding seeing the Just experience that these veterans have many of them are severely disabled and struggle with the activities of daily living getting around Here we have the DAV a bunch of other folks coming together to make this event happen where these folks are able to See that they can experience more within life and really like well Become part of a greater community. Yeah, and that is just absolutely amazing and being here and having that experience Oh my gosh, it's just been so good. Yeah No, I mean standing here at the bottom of the hill watching all these skiers come down the Faces they have these smiles. It is it's hard to describe unless you're here really What do you must look forward to later on in the week? Well, really I'm looking forward to just Well having some after-work drinks and hot tub moments Great veterans, but really the closing ceremonies and race day on the final day on Friday should be absolutely incredible. Oh Hi, I'm seared to do his job here. Oh Don't be sorry at all You're getting a real good feel here for what it's like to be at the bottom of this hill You have skiers coming down on mono skis coming down on bike ski bikes coming down on dual skis coming down on snowboards We have blind skiers You know no matter what your disability is here if you come to the winter sports clinic You'll be able to engage in all sorts of activities And I know I've talked to veterans here who say that this is a life-changing event for them Oh, absolutely That's why I've heard as well and they have so many different events scuba diving rock climbing curling It's why I'm fishing snowmobiling we could go on and on Snowshoeing like Nordic skiing Yeah, it's it's amazing the breadth and the scope of this event And for some of these veterans it is kind of the social event of the year from what I yeah, definitely definitely Well, Hyrum I'm gonna let you get back to work. I really do appreciate it and again Thank you to the Department of Veterans Affairs our gracious co-presenters this would not happen without them or volunteers like Hyrum You can check out Winnersportsclinic.org to learn more about it and make sure you follow the hashtag Winnersportsclinic and also check out sports for vets at sports for the number four vets Which is V is adaptive sports website to learn more. Thanks a lot You