 I'm Captain Jonathan Vellone and this is why I serve. I serve because I grew up as a military brat in, you know, the 90s and the early 2000s. My father was stationed in Fort Bliss when 9-11 happened, so I saw that effect that it had on the army, the 9-11 attacks, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as very formative years and very formative events for me. So as my decision process started to come up on what I wanted to do with my life, I chose to serve because I wanted to kind of give back to the organization that had given my family so much and provided us with that upward mobility. I continue to serve now because it's a very dynamic situation that we find ourselves in. The army is changing its policies and updating its policies in so many ways for the better in a way that we haven't seen in the last probably 30 years. So I get to help implement those effects and changes to better the soldiers and to improve the quality of lives for the soldiers, their dependents and have that greater impact and help people, which is what we're all about as an organization.