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All right, KJ5, ILQ returning. Yeah, I had to look it up. It's been a while since I was really looking at the Texas State Guard, but I'm going to have to do some real quick fact-pulling for you. The Texas National Guard is a dual role. It can be, it's not a state controlled normally, but it can be federalized. However, the Texas State Guard is purely state. It cannot be federalized. The State Guard is mainly used for state emergencies, civil support, logistics, search and rescue, and augmenting the National Guard on in-state missions. It's not used for combat or overseas. The funding is primarily state funding through the State Military Department. Their training is periodic. They do drills, kind of like National Guard. The eligibility and standards, they must meet state eligibility, meaning they must be died in Texas. There's age limits, background checks, all the stuff like that that you would hope that they would have. Only the governor can activate it and only authorizes the state law that it's given. It's not a combat force and there's no federal law enforcement powers. It often, like I said, it often augments in support of Texas National Guard units inside of Texas. So, yeah, it says it's not a combat unit or anything, but I guarantee that if they needed to activate it, they could, to defend Texas. We do have quite a few guns down here. And it didn't tell me the size, and that's what I was doing. Give me one second, I'll tell you. All right. So the size is roughly around 1,800 to 2,200 active volunteers. They have around 3,000 more that they can pull up, it looks like. They do have six civil affairs regiments, one air division, one maritime division, and a medical brigade. So that's interesting. They basically field disaster response, logistics and communication, search and rescue, border surveillance support, and shelter management and humanitarian support. So there you go. I hope that helped us all understand the differences between the Texas State Guard and the Texas National Guard. Back over to you, KC2, PKG. This was KJ5IRQ.