 I'm Paul Gennaro, and I'm a Navy veteran. I started out as an air traffic controller, stationed at NAS Norfolk, 88 to 91. Then I switched to a print and broadcast journalist, we used to call it a JL at the time, and I did that for the balance of my career. I was stationed at Naval Communications Station, Harold E. Halt in Xmouth, Western Australia, and then also at Submarine Base Pearl Harbor. One of the things I've learned as a hiring manager is you can look at a resume and you can take some things away from it. I've seen people that have a bachelor's degree and two master's degrees, and then you hire them with your very enthusiastic, and they don't necessarily deliver to your expectations. A lot of what it really comes down to is character. Anybody that's gonna come into a new organization is gonna have to learn that organization. So what's their character, what are their values? One of the things that I've found is people that come out of the military, for the most part, have exceptional leadership skills, have exceptional work ethic, understand that it's about teamwork and collaboration, doing whatever it takes to get the job done. And I'm the first, I joke with my team, to say I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but one of the things I do think I bring is the ability to do whatever it takes to get the job done, a sense of duty, a sense of overcoming whatever the obstacles to the mission are, and I think the folks that I work for appreciate that. I was fortunate to be there during the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. So I had two Navy grandfathers. One was on the USS Shea during World War II. They took down eight planes, had a kamikaze, hit them, and just did phenomenal things and survived. Another grandfather hit the beaches at Iwo Jima with the Marines. So I had a lot of respect and admiration for those World War II veterans. When they would come back, and you'd be able to take them on a tour of this base 50 years later, I still get chills thinking about it, because the sense of duty, the sense of service to the country, and it's one of the things I love about working for AECOM right now. We do a good amount of work for the US government, the US Navy, the Department of Defense. After 9-11, we were the program manager that helped rebuild the Pentagon and get it back up and running a year later. That's cool stuff to do.