Hello. I'm ██████████████, national headquarters executive director at dav disabled american veterans. Welcome to our live conference call. In just a moment, you'll hear how ███████████ war veteran and former army combat medic ███████ and █████ and his fiance ██████████ us have had their lives forever changed through dav's wide range of resources. Please stay on the line as we connect you automatically to the live conference. Again. Welcome to our teleconference, which is now in progress. Battlefield onto, you know, some of the drills that we had to do when we were in boot camp. This resulted in many of my service connections with medical condition that ended up with the help of DAV getting ██% rating on musculoskeletal. So a lot of it we were in terror on my body. But again, overall, still the best decision I ever made as a young ███████████ male. Wow. Go from what could have been a great soccer career to making this impact. And all these sacrifices and injuries that you endured. Can you share a little bit more about those injuries you sustained during your service that actually still affected you today? So, yeah, primarily a lot of wear and tear. Ankles, of course, jumping out vehicles, a helicopter. So a lot of knee pain, ankle pain from a lot of the ruck sack wear and heavy ruck sack on my backpack. Part of my rehab. I spent almost three times a week at the VA Hospital in ████████████████ where I literally, before going to class, long classes, I was at the PA at like 7am in the morning, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, just getting physical therapy, hot pack, cold pack or multiple joints. So I know some of the members here on the call could definitely understand what I'm saying. But yeah, I had to do that because a lot of the classes that I was taking the advanced my career after I left the military required a lot of lab, a lot of sitting down in class. So even up to today, now that I've currently just got accepted in my PhD program, that's still something that I'm keeping aware of and have to still do physical therapy. Even after I left the service. So I'm still dealing with some of the wear and tear art. Right. A lot of ankle pain. That is a lot to handle for sure. We are talking here this evening with █████ on █████ and his fiance ██████████. It is our DAV stakeholder called Disabled American Veterans of Dan Classic. We have ██████████ with us. Our chief communications and outreach officer to answer your questions. Those of you join in late. Remember, if you want to get in on the call, if you got questions for █████ or █████, we want to ask us about DAV or any of our programs, press zero right now. We'll get you on the call. The call is a lot better when you participate. We're going to continue along with this great story here of service and sacrifice and █████, a heavy burden you carry. I mean physically, emotionally. Can you tell us at what point did you first learn. About dav. Man. I think the first time I learned about DAV was doing my out processing that last six months of your service time. Unfortunately for me, I got a medical discharge, so pretty much three kernels. Decided that I couldn't do my job as a medic anymore, which was quite disappointing. of course offered for me to do