HMX is to me, it's a series of once in a lifetime opportunities. Every day is something different. You never know where you're going next month, next year. You're always traveling and you're always meeting great people. My absolute favorite thing about working HMX is the caliber of people that we bring and working with those men and women. Just working with great people makes you better. I think it's really good to experience marine aviation the way you thought it was going to be when you're in flight school. You show up as a captain or a major and once you become qualified in the helicopters you have the potential to take those helicopters on the road by yourself as the OIC for a trip to anywhere here in the United States. That's really really neat. To take care of a presidential asset, this helicopter, and lead a group of 20-25 Marines on the road is really really a lot of fun. It's really rewarding because you get an opportunity to have that small unit leadership, make decisions that you may not have the ability to make or be put in the position to make as a younger officer in the fleet marine force. Now what we do, we have a professional organization on aviation side but our maintenance as well. I work in the maintenance department and I've seen the level and abilities of the maintenance here are some of the best in the fleet. So I really think all around the experience that you can get here is very unique to only this command. The first time I landed on the South Lawn it was a trip from Andrew's Air Force base to the South Lawn. I remember thinking that I was going to be perfectly cool. Everything was going to be nice and calm and I was going to be smooth as silk. Until the moment when the president stepped off of Air Force 1 out onto the little stairs he steps out there and I just remember specifically my heart rate started really pounding in my chest. All of a sudden I became nervous and everything else about that first one almost seems like a dream. The mission is much different than the fleet's mission. Here we're not really in a hostile environment but it's a no-fail mission. So the level of importance is still there. We don't ever want to leave the president stranded somewhere. We need to make sure that the people that go with him and all his contingency are able to get where they need to go every time. Your daily mission could change. Even within that day you could find out in the morning that you think you're going to go to Minneapolis and then a couple hours later find out that you're going to go to Kansas City instead. It changes very very quickly. You're going to work hard but you're also going to travel and experience once in a lifetime opportunities that you never thought that you would ever experience. You come to HMX and you see the history and you see the people that you're going to be working with and you're going to push yourself to work even harder. Because you want to live up to the standard that HMX has established. You're going to work hard. I've never studied harder in my life through college, through flight school. HMX is a wonderful unit. I can't stress enough once in a lifetime opportunities.