 I volunteered to come here check in not knowing what to expect and then one push later, two push later, then six push later I would have did 10 straight if they'd let me. It's a win-win. On the first hand you step out of your conference zone and it does amazing things to your career. I checked in here second class and no being on push ended up getting my MTS, STT, all the qualifications you can get here then getting promoted to first class and it kind of hits you that my replacement is literally sitting in P-days right now. To them you are it as far as everything goes. It's a definite win-win like there's no other duty station like this. I'm a gardener. My goal is to water all the seeds that are here. We train 44,000 recruits a year. That's a lot of seeds and when they start breaking ground you'll start to notice if the nurturing around them actually helped and you can say man you know what I helped to plant that. I was watering that tree. I wanted to do something different. I want to do something outside the box. I wanted to have that. I wanted to see a visible reward. When you're in the fleet you do your maintenance, you do your paperwork, you do what you have to do and you help your sailors but they also could help themselves. They know what they have to do. They've been to bootcamp but here no one knows what to do so you're here giving someone that sense of purpose. You're here to see an actual legit end result. You see something from zero all the way through. We actually get to see them the very first week they're here and all their mannerisms and over a period of time we get to see them change really and learn to have bearing, learn the ways of the Navy and basically become motivated sailors at the very end and I've added a bonus of working here at the midway swimmer drill hall and I could see them graduate also. So I see them from the very first day they're here really until the last day they're here. They say the recruit training command were the top 10% that are up here in this area and the leadership here I hands down totally believe it. There's so many years of experience here. We have the leadership capabilities here to answer any question that we have when it comes to promotion time or even how to write an evaluation here it's just amazing how much knowledge that's here and is available for us. The most rewarding part of being assigned to recruit training command specifically as an RDC is that I get essentially leadership training every single day so we get so much exposure to different kinds of problems. We get to have conversations about different solutions to those problems in an environment that is constantly changing. So it's definitely taken me outside of my comfort zone. I had 14 years experience as a naval air crewman. I was very comfortable with that. I knew exactly what I was doing. I came here feeling that same way and quickly realized that I had a lot of learning to do. If you've been thinking about it I suggest you just do it. Again that fleet experience that you got just all experiences welcome here. It's absolutely worth the challenge and at the end of the day three years is up you won't be ready to leave at all.