 My name is Rick Reynolds. I am currently the Deputy for Corporate Operations at the Spay War Systems Center in San Diego. I spent 27 years in the Navy as a helicopter pilot. On my first tour I flew and I flew combat search and rescue in Vietnam for three different cruises. How did your time in the Navy help shape the person you are today? How did my time in the Navy help shape the person I am today? I think that from the get-go my time in the Navy I learned a lot of hard skills. What I would consider hard skills things that you do like I became a helicopter pilot and I flew helicopter for the Navy for most of my 27 years. But I think it's the soft skills that you learn, the leadership skills and I think that there's a big difference between managers and leaders. Managers can pretty much manage anything. Leaders build teams around them and the teams help them be successful. The leadership skills that I think were the most important part of what I learned in my career. How to deal with people, how to build teams, how to provide support for those teams. Get them to take care of you the way you want to be taken care of and not the way if you don't take care of them they'll take care of you in a different way and you won't be happy. So I think those soft skills what I call the soft skills are the ones that are most important to us as we as we mature in our lives and we move forward into whatever career we have as we continue in the military and then after we get out of the military.