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This is Kayan for LDF. Thanks, Daryl. You know, I'm going to tell you a story. I'll try to make it short. So I went to Lackland Air Force Base for my training. And before I went there, you know, when they, when you enlist, they make you go like four or five times to different kind of testing and all kinds of stuff. So I passed all the blood tests and everything. So I ended up in Lackland Air Force Base. But one of the things before I left was I weighed, I think, 132 pounds or something, give or take. But the requirement for my height was 119, give or take. And they gave me two weeks to lose that weight, which I did. So I ended up in Lackland Air Force Base and training started. So Lackland has a black flag, 105 at that time or over, they put up the black flag. So for some reason, you get up and you have to run and do all this stuff. But when we were doing the running in the heat, guess what? Dee would just pass out. And that, we had a buddy system. So we were assigned to a buddy. So my buddy, which is another female, could not pick up my dead weight, 119 pounds of dead weight. She couldn't pick me up. So they had to, they also called the ambulance for me. So after three times of me passing out and they having to pick up my butt off the floor and send me to the medic, to the office, they put me in casual and then they gave me an honorable discharge and they let me go because I was too frail. And it was a medical discharge. And you know, I believe with what we're discussing here, I believe that you do need as a female, as an elderly female, looking back, I believe, hold on, hold on. I do believe that you need to have some strength, almost equal to, you won't have the strength as a man, but you need to be at least, not look back. If I was shot and I just passed out, if I was shot, my buddy would never be able to pick up my body and get me to safety. She wasn't able to do it. So I think having some kind of strength and building up while you're in basic training is important because you don't know who or where you have to pick up dead weight. You know, you need that body, you need that strength. So that's one experience that I experienced myself in the military. My whole family is military. My father, my brother, my son, everybody, we're a military family. And I wanted to be, but unfortunately some of us are just not made that way. So, you know, they didn't use me. I would have made it career if I could have, but that was not in the line for me. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that story. Anyway, I have to leave, so this is my 73. This is KN4LBF. Daryl, back to you.