 I've been involved with art since I was a young kid. My family's always been heavily involved with the arts, graphic arts. So I initially went to a recruiter's office. I said, I wanted to join and serve my country. The counselor there that kind of helps you guide you through the contract, noticed the type of way that I signed my name. Told me, hey, you wanna go see this other job that we have available? Luckily for me, I was able to get that job. My name is Mass Sergeant Juan Muñoz and I am the US Army Artist. Yes, it's a huge sense of pride, first off, to be able to serve in this capacity. At first I had a big sense of pressure. I felt like when I got in this position, I'm in charge of capturing the three to four year timeline while I'm assigned here of the history of the Army. But as I got more familiarized and started developing the art, it's more about telling those individual stories. For a combat artist, our focus, although you wanna create a finished product, of course, our focus is more about the storytelling of what the piece is gonna do and how it relates to our soldiers. So how we capture that soldier's story and then how we can tell it and capture it for the history of the Army. Capturing something such as a piece that I did, titled Specialist Perez in Baghdad, a lot of soldiers can relate to that. A lot of soldiers can relate to what it's like to sit on a watchtower and pull guard 12 hours a day for a full year of a deployment and then just how sometimes it can be mundane, sometimes it can be harsh, but at the same time, we're all serving our country in some capacity.