Army Emergency Relief

I yeah, I'll stick with you on the conversational piece, but I will just lead off with saying, you know, I'm in the financial industry and there's there's a ton of good people who work in the financial industry, all aspects from lending on the mortgage side to, you know, lending for cars, lending for things that people need.

There are also, you know, benevolent organizations out there that are associated with the services that do, you know, interest free loans like You know, I'm an Army guy, so I'm familiar with the Army side, but like AER, for example, Army Emergency Relief, they do a lot of great work in taking care of people and making sure they're, you know, for those like what you mentioned, when somebody needs help with a plane ticket to get back home for an emergency or something like that.

So by no means are we going to attack the entire industry today, but we are going to talk about a few things.

that have really risen to prominence over the last few years, really since COVID and some of the dynamics that have pushed that.

So she has her own club.

She just retired from Army Emergency Relief.

And so she was supporting soldiers and their families with scholarships to attend colleges through Army Emergency Relief and had worked for about 15 years in that capacity.

And so in that way, she and I sort of dovetailed in our military work and supporting services.

So you slash your mother have a very interesting lens when it comes to supporting the young student in America and setting them up for success or not.