WEBVTT 00:01.240 --> 00:02.240 Yeah . 00:08.740 --> 00:09.740 Yeah 00:13.940 --> 00:17.770 and welcome 00:17.770 --> 00:19.840 to another episode of Nabucco is the 00:19.840 --> 00:22.007 navy office of community outreach ship 00:22.007 --> 00:24.370 to shore . It's my pleasure today to be 00:24.370 --> 00:26.592 with Commander Catherine when Aldam the 00:26.592 --> 00:29.140 ceo of U . S . S . O . Kill Commander , 00:29.140 --> 00:31.900 how are you ? I'm doing well . How are 00:31.900 --> 00:33.970 you ? Great . It looks like you're a 00:33.970 --> 00:36.192 little cold and outside there . Are you 00:36.192 --> 00:38.810 on the ship now ? No actually I'm one 00:38.820 --> 00:40.876 little creek space . I had a meeting 00:40.876 --> 00:43.790 off shift and it ran a little long so 00:43.800 --> 00:45.750 I'm using the environmental but 00:45.760 --> 00:48.290 thankfully I have gloves and I have 00:48.290 --> 00:51.330 some here . Must you ? Perfect , well 00:51.330 --> 00:53.330 thank you so much for being with us 00:53.330 --> 00:55.710 today . I wanted to get a little bit of 00:55.720 --> 00:58.100 an idea of what you're all about and I 00:58.100 --> 01:00.340 really appreciate your time . Uh First 01:00.340 --> 01:02.340 I wanted to ask you , where are you 01:02.340 --> 01:04.650 from , where did you grow up ? Mhm . 01:05.140 --> 01:08.150 Well , so I was born in Miami but I was 01:08.150 --> 01:10.094 raised primarily in Stone Mountain 01:10.094 --> 01:12.240 Georgia . My family , we moved there 01:12.240 --> 01:14.710 when I was in the fifth grade . I 01:14.710 --> 01:16.654 graduated from Stone Mountain High 01:16.654 --> 01:19.340 School , home of the pirates . Uh It 01:19.340 --> 01:21.570 was a good experience and I think what 01:21.570 --> 01:24.710 made my high school journey most 01:24.710 --> 01:28.200 memorable was my association with the 01:28.200 --> 01:31.920 NJ ROTC unit . Um remember when 01:31.930 --> 01:34.600 it was at the end of my freshman year 01:34.610 --> 01:36.666 and we had to pick electives for the 01:36.666 --> 01:40.090 next year and in a lone corner of the 01:40.090 --> 01:43.310 gym there was a small table because the 01:43.310 --> 01:45.366 next year is gonna be the first year 01:45.366 --> 01:47.699 they were going to have it in J . R . O . 01:47.699 --> 01:49.810 T . C . And it for some reason I felt 01:49.810 --> 01:51.977 like I was back into that table and it 01:51.977 --> 01:53.810 was totally life changing for me 01:53.810 --> 01:55.699 because before you know I was the 01:55.699 --> 01:57.866 traditional highly intellectual a case 01:57.866 --> 02:01.270 of what they nerd . I did participate 02:01.270 --> 02:03.550 in sports but it was that program in 02:03.550 --> 02:06.030 the mentorship from the N . S . I 02:06.030 --> 02:08.252 instructed commander moody that forever 02:08.252 --> 02:10.474 changed . I would say the trajectory of 02:10.474 --> 02:13.240 my life . So I had actually enlisted in 02:13.240 --> 02:15.900 the army reserves as a junior in high 02:15.900 --> 02:18.860 school . So the first part of my senior 02:18.860 --> 02:21.080 year I was in the army reserves and I 02:21.080 --> 02:24.100 remember I received it in ROTC 02:24.100 --> 02:27.170 scholarship very early and my army ceo 02:27.170 --> 02:29.226 said I'm not letting you out of your 02:29.226 --> 02:31.281 contract early because anybody could 02:31.281 --> 02:34.890 get uh an ROTC scholarship but I will 02:34.890 --> 02:37.112 let you out early , get accepted to the 02:37.112 --> 02:39.334 academy and what I didn't understand if 02:39.334 --> 02:42.790 he meant West Point not Annapolis and I 02:42.790 --> 02:45.120 ended up applying to Annapolis and 02:45.130 --> 02:48.230 getting in . He was not pleased . Uh 02:48.240 --> 02:52.050 but I'm glad I I'm glad I pushed over . 02:52.060 --> 02:54.520 It's funny so , but you don't have any 02:54.520 --> 02:56.742 allegiance as the army , your your navy 02:56.742 --> 03:00.360 all the way now . Right , navy . I tell 03:00.360 --> 03:02.527 people I have blue and gold running in 03:02.527 --> 03:05.370 a day a day . In the life of a Ceo . 03:05.370 --> 03:07.580 I'd say it's different based off of 03:07.590 --> 03:09.730 what the ship's schedule is and I had 03:09.730 --> 03:11.897 the privilege . What I've seen command 03:11.897 --> 03:14.100 to be operational , what that means is 03:14.100 --> 03:16.350 the ship was able to go out to sea . 03:16.740 --> 03:19.260 And I try to emphasize to my team that 03:20.260 --> 03:23.680 we are objective base . I don't like to 03:23.680 --> 03:26.600 set working outwards because if you 03:26.600 --> 03:29.130 have the initiative and you are 03:29.130 --> 03:32.050 tenacious in your pursuit of obtaining 03:32.060 --> 03:35.380 those daily priorities , then liberty , 03:35.390 --> 03:38.120 which my XO would say is a mission 03:38.130 --> 03:41.050 becomes an early reality . If you're 03:41.050 --> 03:43.700 able to turn to , I would say it right 03:43.700 --> 03:45.922 now as our ship has transitioned to the 03:45.922 --> 03:48.320 maintenance , the press doesn't let up 03:48.330 --> 03:50.770 because ultimately the goal is to make 03:50.770 --> 03:54.370 sure that we can go back out to sea . I 03:54.380 --> 03:56.547 think what I enjoy most about being at 03:56.547 --> 03:59.110 sea is you really have an opportunity 03:59.110 --> 04:01.460 to put into practice everything you've 04:01.460 --> 04:04.560 learned to support if you're enlisted 04:04.560 --> 04:06.750 your waiter training . If it's an 04:06.750 --> 04:09.190 officer , it's the position that your 04:09.190 --> 04:12.050 spine to while also improving and 04:12.050 --> 04:14.800 perfecting your mirror skill set and 04:14.810 --> 04:18.340 for me , uh , that's priceless . I love 04:18.340 --> 04:21.340 the opportunity . The one thing I love 04:21.340 --> 04:24.770 about the baby is that if you are 04:24.770 --> 04:28.560 willing to do the work opportunities 04:28.560 --> 04:31.350 will be presented for you to 04:31.360 --> 04:34.570 continue to grow , develop not only 04:34.570 --> 04:37.850 professionally , but first and see by 04:37.850 --> 04:40.890 continuing in the process and not 04:40.890 --> 04:44.010 quitting . The Navy has proven not only 04:44.010 --> 04:46.470 with me , but others , there's no limit 04:46.470 --> 04:48.910 so long as you are willing to do the 04:48.920 --> 04:52.340 work and I would just encourage 04:52.350 --> 04:55.330 anyone who wants to privilege an 04:55.330 --> 04:57.950 opportunity to understand what they're 04:57.950 --> 05:01.100 really made of , to understand whatever 05:01.100 --> 05:04.560 latent gifts and talents they have . 05:05.140 --> 05:07.700 But they want to experience them to 05:07.700 --> 05:10.770 consider joining the Navy , consider 05:10.770 --> 05:14.160 nuclear power . There is no limit .