Hello and welcome back to Ackrak. I'm Jed Walpaw, and we have a great show for you today.

This is a little different than anything we've done before, but I think it's really important And I'm really excited to both learn a lot and for all of you to learn a lot about military careers in medicine and in anesthesia.

And, you know, as a program director, every year I've got some folks coming in through the match who have an affiliation with the military.

Maybe they've already served. Maybe they're currently serving. Maybe as as we will hear from one of my current residents, in the midst

of their training, they decide to get involved with the military. And I never really understood

all the ins and outs, what was possible, and really, to be honest, how best to support these folks.

And so this is going to be an opportunity for us to hear from four people who are in these different

roles, who are going to tell us about their role and what they do and kind of what we

in the people being the people around them, and especially anybody in leadership who can do

to help support them and make these careers both possible and to make them ones that are

well supported as well as to give you all, if you're out there

as a medical student or a resident, and you're thinking, oh, I might be interested in this,

you'll get to learn a little bit about how you might go about doing that. So I'm really excited

to welcome Commander Dr. Mark Cannon, Commander Dr. Nick Poulos, Lieutenant Dr. Joey Seeger,

and Lieutenant Commander Erica Spencer, all of whom are going to take a turn talking to us a little bit. So all of you, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Fabulous to have you. All right. Let's start with you, Dr. Cannon. You are a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves.

And tell us a little bit about first that. What does that

mean? What do you do? What does your career look like? Well, Jed, thanks again for having me.

You know, my career path is a little convoluted. I'll be the first to say. So I started off in

the reserves. I am on active duty now. I am currently the deputy

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