 quartermaster second-class Brian Jones take one I would say I was 21 22 years old me and a couple of my friends were we were hanging out at a club we were having drinks there was a young lady not too far from us she was with a young male they were having drinks we were not too far from down the bar I believe the young lady went to the went to the restroom and it looked like the male had had put something in her drink we weren't too familiar it looked like he was just his hand was over a drink and it looked like he was putting something in there immediately me and my friends we seen that we started talking to each other and I told him I was gonna get up and go say something ask the guy was everything alright if it was it was alright everything was going fine and he kind of had a weird look on his face so I kind of assumed it was it was something was something was going on something wasn't right young lady came back and he basically didn't give her back the drink so I'm thinking that what would we intervene on we was we let him know that we seen what happened and I believe he basically backed off and and it didn't seem like it went any further than that it's in like him the lady kind of party and I believe I don't believe he was really with her I think he was just trying to to take advantage of this young lady so it was a it just it just felt good to know that that we're we're we're not we're all human and we're we're there to to step in and help other people if something doesn't look right we always should question it it's better to be safe than sorry being a victim advocate is probably the best collateral duty I've had since I've been in the military it's very rewarding to know that that that you're there to help someone just to help someone recover from from a situation that that is very tragic to see that person go on with their lives and continue their naval career and and succeeding it it just it just is something in your heart that you that you'd like to see someone succeed in life and not let someone else dictate how the rest of their life should be so we get a call person can be at Balboa or they could be at Nailway San Diego Medical Center we'll go to the place the facility that they're at we'll go in first we'll introduce ourselves and let them know that we're a VA we're a victim advocate and we explain what our role is for them is to be there for them whatever they need we're there for them to assist them in recovering and we ask them are they are they alright with a male or a female victim advocate we want them to feel as comfortable as possible we don't want to be extra burden on that on that victim we don't want to re-victimize them so our basic role is just to just to help them and make them feel more comfortable around whoever they're around and the situation they're in because they they didn't put their self in that situation so we want to make them feel as comfortable as possible we basically guide them through the process of what they might go through how they're they can report reporting options restricted unrestricted we let we want them to be clear of what they want to report and we want them feel comfortable reporting knowing that we're there to support them we'll be behind them every step of the way we don't look at the hours we we put in we look at how can we help this person move on with the the experience they went through and we don't look at it as just another job