 i'm trained i'm qualified i need to be there and so i was able to long story short volunteer and get into 101st airborne and join uh them on their deployment to iraq and i was so activated for a year went to iraq from 2005 to 2006 right before the surge when a lot of the sectarian violence started and then i did i worked for an outside advocacy vets group um when did you get into congress jason what year uh i was elected in 2008.