candace wheeler. how are you? >> i'm fine, thank you. >> good. candace is -- joined the national military family association government relations staff as the deputy director in june of 2007. prior to that, she served the organization in various capacities including chairman and ceo during which time she served as the association's spokesman before congress, the department of defense and the military and civilian community. as her government relations director, she addresses issues relevant to quality of life for families of the uniformed services, including responsibility for absentee voting rights and a whole host of other responsibilities. she represents this association as a member of the alliance for military and overseas voting rights. and serves on the advisory panel for the military heroes initiative. she's also the cochair of the personnel committee for military coalition which is compromised of 34 military veteran and uniformed service organizations representing 5.5 million members. she was an air force spouse for 22 years. and knows fir