 My name is Lieutenant Commander Toby Wayne Palmer. I'm an entomologist stationed at the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 6 in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii at NEPMU-6 here in Pearl Harbor. We're focused on the Pacific region, so we have anywhere from halfway between San Diego and Hawaii all the way through India. So I'm Lieutenant Ryan Larson, entomologist at the Navy Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit 6. What's a being a Navy entomologist is that you get to work with something you love and it's something that benefits our country. Our primary mission is to maximize readiness by preventing insect-borne diseases. The entomologists have been around quite a long time. Most folks when I talk to them are surprised when they find out that the Navy has entomologists. I do think that there is a stereotype where people think we're probably some bug nerds that you might see with the butterfly net, but the reality is that we also have to be officers too. When I was stationed at one of the NEPMUs where we actually had to go in on board a ship because they were having a strange outbreak from a certain pest. But for some unknown reason it was actually on the ship, but through investigation we found out that apparently it was brought aboard as part of some pallet that had cardboard in it and the population was primarily underneath where all the discarded cardboard would lay. So some of the stuff we deal every day to help our sailors out, some of the issues that we're facing are fascinating, probably not to a general audience. To me that's extremely fascinating, but it probably isn't to other folks and that's what makes this job so great. I just think it's the coolest job because I get to do what I love. In a lot of jobs you may enjoy what you do, but it may not be 100% of what you love, but my heart really is in making sure that I go out and I take care of the sailors, the soldiers, the airmen, and the Marines from disease vectors. I'm Lieutenant Commander Tebi Wayne Palmer. I'm Lieutenant Ryan Larson and I have the coolest job in the Navy.