mcec from the early days -- a lot of us were there when we founded this thing called mcec.eing there, it was very exciting to see. in the few years since we were there, it is an amazing thing. it shows you the power of what one person can do to move this forward. i think what is important here is the mustard seed aspect of taking this to each of our communities today and empower them to facilitate this aspect that education is important to military child support, and we have to give them opportunities. it is an amazing thing. will beill do that adapt,nt, and how we that's the thing we have to keep focusing on too. >> i don't think we can put the importance of what mcec does in words. what they have done over the years, and the impact they have had. i think of myself as independent, my kids as independent, -- my kids as dependents, my grandkids as dependents. hard.a military child is going to school with a military child is hard. that those make sure children are taken care of and have a better than average chance in society, that is going to be one of the pegs you would rem

continued collaboration through school boards or through mcec or other organizations to make sure we have continued support with our local communities. it is hard to grow up as military child as you go from school to school. my kids, 20-year-old, 22-year-old, my daughter, nine different schools, three different high schools. that's challenging but that is not unique. >> so i, there are two things that i think, there is a lot of things but i think two main ones that i think impact our kids, one, is transition from school to school, coming into new environment. not knowing anybody in the integration. that is where student to student, that msac does. connect rooms many, enables kids integrated quickly and focus on academics. the other side, when you transfer credit from one state to another what can you use, what do you have to redo? interstate compacts and efforts from organizations and get all 50 states, finally on board with that. military student identifier. right now only 17 of our states have the military identifier on enrollment forms, to push that need. when you do that you can