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Brian, big country Conwell.

I love that big country.

How's it going today, buddy? It's going good. It's going really good. Thanks for having me on. This is really awesome. A great honor. Doing really good. Got our first signs of a little bit of winter weather here in North Carolina. So, you know, turn the heat on, finally turn the fireplace on for the first time,

getting ready for holidays. Everything's starting to sink in for the last little bit of the year.

So it's going to be really great. Yep. I'm about six hours north of you, and we're probably a tad bit

colder here, but we generally get similar weather. If it snows here. You guys get rain, you know, right?

But we don't get much of that anymore.

So I'm just excited to be talking to you today because not only are you a decorated Army veteran and thank you so much for your service, but you're a very accomplished para-athlete that is just doing amazing things.

And can we just start with your military career and what happened?

And then we'll just kind of go through your story and take it from there.

So, you know, I joined the Army in July of 2006.

A little bit later than what I wanted to.

Of course, you know, life happens.

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