 kind of learned about advocacy but it was all about supporting the troops and then I went to grad school and then I deployed to Afghanistan for a year so it was Gitmo 0405 Iraq 0506 and Afghanistan in 2011 2012 and then what you'll learn in the book is I got out for about five years but then I got back in because I had the itch to kind of still be serving and I landed in a roundabout way in the Washington DC National Guard