Rachel and I met on June 27, 2019: USNA Induction Day. We were both wearing whiteworks and I was aggressively bald. We got off to a rocky start, I was a bad plebe who talked all the time when I shouldn't have, and she would shush me (the beginnings of any true love story). However, we spent freshman and sophomore year at USNA in the same company, lived down the hall from each other, and became friends. The smooth operator that I am, it only took me two years to work up the courage to ask her on a date. We started dating April 2021 and the rest is history! Rachel currently lives in Iwakuni, Japan and Ryan is headed to Kingsville, TX to start advanced flight training. Once he wings, he's hoping to get stationed in Japan and join Rachel.