 My name is Staff Sergeant Wesley Hayes. I'm from Ponitoc, Mississippi. My M.O.S. is 0911 Drill Instructor. I'm a board MCRD Recruit Depot in San Diego. So the educators workshop is set up so that we can bring in educators who may not usually have contact with the military or may not know what we do here aboard the depot and show them just a little bit about how we take their students and we teach them and we guide them and we train them and we make them United States Marines so they can take that back to their schools and they can well communicate to those students what kind of opportunities they may have in the Marine Corps. Oh, I've absolutely enjoyed it. Being an educator myself, just getting to get back with the educators, they're the front lines and with our students and with our young people to teach them and bring them up and then we take them and we guide them the rest of the way to becoming Marines. So just being able to communicate with those people and make a connection between what they do and then what we do and how we take what they do and transform them the rest of the way in the United States Marines. I think the favorite thing we put them through was actually the receiving, just getting to see what it's like when they come off the bus, see what it's like to become a recruit, see that there's actually formal things that we do, but also today we get to show them graduation, we can show them morning colors, see what the in-state it is for these gentlemen that come here, these young men and women and how they're transformed from those students that they had just a few months ago into United States Marines. Coming into it, they had a lot of different opinions about what was going to happen or what the Marine Corps was or how we do our training. So you could tell they were a little bit nervous, but as the week went on, they opened up and they started enjoying themselves and even saw them smiling and playing along. And they told me that they really enjoyed that aspect of it as seeing how the recruits actually progress from recruits into Marines and how the training is actually set up to make them better citizens. I think every educator should have the opportunity to come to at least some kind of military training just to be able to see just so they can take back to their students and let them know what it is that we do and how we do what we do. Marine Corps is a wonderful place for young people. It's a place where we can take people from all kinds of walks of life and we can make them better citizens. We can give them so many opportunities and I just hope that the educators around the nation will give us an opportunity to show them what it is that we have to offer.