>> So my name is Roger Huddle.
I'm a college-graduate, class of 2012, and currently,
I'm a defense fellow at The Department of Defense.
So what that program, it's kind of unique program in that it's a year-and-a-half long,
political appointee, and you do six-month rotations in various offices,
and we get to choose the offices.
So we have the control, so I just got done doing my first rotation where I was working
in acquisitions with Army, and now I'm working
with just general Department of Defense Legislative Affairs.
So I just started that a few weeks ago.
So still kind of getting into it, but generally,
what we're focus on is the relationship between The Hill.
Obviously, this the budget season, so, you know, highlighting key programs and priorities.
You know, discussing The President's budget requests, things like that, in the normal order
of things and just general, also, the reporting that goes on to Congress and kind of assisting
with their oversight and everything else like that.
So generally, it's doing a lot of the prep work, so getting the right information to people
within the Department of Defense before they go out into Congress
and making sure everyone has the right materials, everyone's on the same page.
Going back and forth between The Pentagon and one of the various Senate or House buildings,
scheduling the different meetings, making sure we can get everybody in the right place,
because a lot of times, everybody has busy schedules and meeting with that,
and then just generally doing some of the behind-the-scenes research,
make sure we're following the news of the day and what things might become.
You know issues that need to be addressed or questions that need
to be answered and various things like that.
So a lot of kind of short turn around things and longer-term planning mixed together, I think,
would be the busy day, and the things that pop up kind of related to those things.