dempsey and friend and before i took my final assignment and we were in the process of transition and we were talking about this very topic i'm looking at the sign here. you all can't see the role in the military democracy. and he said he said, you know, joe, we have a statutory responsibility to provide military advice to our political leaders in the law to scripture in our job description. he said, i'm finishing up my four years in this assignment and looked and looked and looked and where can i find a statutory responsibility for any political leader to to us and and the only reason they will is trust us. they trust that the advice is nonpartisan. they we have no agenda other than them achieve the political objective that articulated and that we're competent. and those are things that we have an obligation to bring into that unequaled debate or any equal dialog between leaders and those of us in uniform, which is 100%. again, the touchstone of all that is the words of george washington that we started this section with with. here's a question from patrick sparrow's, the librarian o