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I'm the commandant for the National Security Agency's National Cryptologic School.

I grew up in Canada. My dad was a chemist and my mom was a nurse, but we ended up moving to the United States in eighth grade and

Ronald Reagan was the president and it was so different, the geopolitical atmosphere was so different it was it truly was a foreign

country even though it's you know only just one border just north of us it really was very different. I remember going into high school never having an American history class or a political science class or US government class and I thought this is pretty neat.

It really was a foreign concept to me and so knew that it was just really fascinating.

So with then I thought well you know doing something that kind of services the government and

understanding and promoting American values was just something I've always been interested in.

And I just have always kind of gravitated to doing things where I thought I could help and kind of raise the nation.

So I then after college, I wanted to go to do a joint program in some type of international law arena.

So I ended up going to go to law school at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., which was a phenomenal experience.

And so while I was there, because I'm one of seven kids,

you know, in funding education for myself,

I had went to the career office, and it was just a little office and they had a little,

literally like a half inch notebook.

So I was flipping through this book and I ended up applying to a law clerk position, ended up being a phenomenal position. I switched and worked

full time and went to law school at night. I graduated the top 10 of my class and I

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