Dan and Jaymi first met at a course in July 2020 - the U.S. Air Force Weapons School (or, WIC). For those unfamiliar, WIC is about 6 months of long days, academics, studying, preparing lessons, learning weapons systems, mission planning, and drinking away your sorrows from, oftentimes multiple, failed attempts to pass an event. Social functioning is at an all-time low. Inside jokes consist of what you did on 2 hours of sleep and highlights of conversation include "good" dry erase markers, how an instructor wronged you, and why some critical aircraft in your gameplan wasn't where it was supposed to be for your mission. There is a lot of good that comes from it as well - to include your classmates who become some of your closest friends. Not to mention, it was COVID primetime so they were all each other had. It wasn't until after Dan and Jaymi graduated that their relationship grew beyond friendship. Dan went to Louisiana and Jaymi to Japan. They kept in-touch in the months following Weapons School graduation. During the spring of 2021 on one of Jaymi's trips to the States, she needed to catch a plane out of Seattle to get back to Japan. Knowing that Seattle is Dan's hometown, she asked if he was interested in meeting her there to hang out for a couple of days before she caught the rotator back to Japan. It just so happened that his parents were also in the area and moving his sister across town into a new place, so he did! Ironically enough this is also when Jaymi met Dan's family for the first time. Jaymi and Dan went hiking, explored the city, and had a great time; however, the timing wasn't right for a long-distance relationship. Nevertheless, they continued to talk (even with a 14 hour time difference), and when Jaymi returned to the States she always ended up visiting Dan. In October of 2021, they finally agreed that their hearts were drawn to each other and the long distance would be worth it.