liz perez joins us now in austin.thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me. >> and in d.c., we have the former boss at shell oil, john hofmeister. we would love for the two of you to join hands along with so many of our oil and energy executives who understand this business and our veterans who have incredible motivation around this issue and in general. so we can seize the energy independence that america has been demanding and not been able to achieve for far too long. that's the force for 30 million jobs. and that's a force for not only freedom, but safety. john, i want to start with you. what's the barrier to enrolling returning veterans to work with executives like yourself from the hydrocarbon business and executives in the green energy space to seize the efficiency and the transition that we're prepared to make in this country to seize our independence. what's the barrier? >> the barrier is just getting connected. how do we get inç touch with eh other? because there have been and will continue to be lot

joining us now is liz perez, a navy veteran herself and a founder of gc green which is an organizationdicated to finding clean energy jobs for troops returning home. officer perez, give us a sense of how well received your program is inside the military. standing outside of it looking at it seems very rational but i'm interested to know how it's being received. >> well, you know, first off, dylan, thank you so much for having me on your show and it's actually a petty officer perez. i want to get that clear because there are some navy folks out there that -- >> thank you. my mistake. they'll yell at both of us. >> yes, yes. exactly. i started gc green about two years ago and we're a renewable energy and energy efficiency general contracting and consulting firm. we came in at a bit of a different angle and what that angle was is we focused on clean energy job training for veterans and people thought, well, you're a general contractor. why are you training veterans in clean energy? i thought, well definitely. exactly. it's needed. and i have been in the green build engineering field for a

we met liz perez, who was an officer in the navy, who is running a business in san diego to this effectwhat are your thoughts on the scalability of a defense energy project where we take american energy executives and american energy investors and partner them with veterans like yourself and so many others. we have millions returning over the next couple years to seize this next mission. >> not only are veterans returning, but the armed forces are going to scale down in the next few years. we'll have men and women power pool out there to draw from. these are disciplined, capable people. as the department of defense expands their use of renewable energy, they want to use 25% from renewable sources. this is not government dollars involved. if we can match up the business interest, what the government needs to do for security, and this enormously capable workforce, we'll be the country that leads the world into the next century. >> which clearly, should be our goal. >> absolutely. we were the country that ele electrified the world in the last half of the century. we computerized it. why sh

tomorrow liz perez makes the trip from san diego to be with us here tomorrow in texas with john hof myselfer