 Private First Class Jacob Vandenberg, I'm a combat medic. I'm with 299BSB so today we're administering vaccines in support of the FEMA effort to try to get COVID vaccines out to the majority of the population of Dallas, Texas. It's been an interesting experience considering that we're a unit that primarily goes overseas and works with other countries. Getting to work with an American civilian population, an American agency has been pretty unique. We've got to see a lot of interesting folks from the volunteers to dedicated FEMA personnel, people that support the EMS services like fire, the ambulatory services. So all around it's been a really outgoing and eye-opening experience. As a matter of fact quite a handful of people from my immediate family. My mother, my father, and two of my grandparents actually had COVID and it was kind of at the height of the pandemic. Whenever vaccines weren't available, we were still trying to figure out how to tackle the problem and it put them out of work for a while and it was a little a little nerve racking because you know you think about the the survival rate of COVID-19 and you think you know if someone in my family had it there's nothing to worry about but then when it really hits them you think you know wow this is this is much more real than I previously thought especially having come from a small town like Blanchard Oklahoma and seeing them eventually tackle that and come out feeling better and on top you know it was a great thing to see but it made the it made the crisis more real. You know it feels great to be out here. I think administering these vaccines is putting us on the as I like to tell people the right side of history you know because this vaccine going out and seeing how effective it is is definitely showing us that we're on the tail end of this. It's not you know we're on the downhill slide at this point. Getting people vaccinated with the numbers that we're pushing out really allowing people to feel safer and be safer against this COVID-19 crisis. I think it's really important to receive this vaccine is because much like the flu you know you've got to build up those antibodies and especially for some of the folks that are you know 70 or older or are immuno compromised it's extremely prevalent for them because their bodies already fighting so hard against whatever is already ailing them that this vaccine is giving them that extra kick to push past this. I just think all in all you know it's a it's a really unique opportunity that we have out here because we don't get to work that closely with civilian efforts as an active duty unit so being part of this huge monumental happening in the United States getting to push this many vaccines getting to work this closely with civilians and being a hands-on change for the American people is an absolutely stellar opportunity and I'm glad to be out here.