anthony alfidi. >> good morning. supervisor campos: welcome to the rules committee. thank you for being here. >> good morning. i would like to thank the rules committee for allowing me the opportunity to speak. my name is tony alfidi. i have been a resident of san francisco since 2004 and i'm applying for a soon-to-be vacant seat on the county veterans affairs commission. my experience in this regard is i'm a veteran myself. i'm currently serving as a major in the u.s. army reserve. i have a total time in service of about a years. eight have been active duty. the remainder in reserve. i'm currently assigned as the intelligence officer for fifth brigade, 75th division. at camp parks, california. short park ride away. i spent last year in combat. i was deployed to iraq to join base balad from march to december of 2009. i did not experience direct combat because i had a staff position there. but we did experience a significant number of mortar and rocket attacks on two occasions i felt the blast wave and saw the explosion, about 300 to 500 meters away of several attacks