We decided to do it together. They have a buddy program where you go through basic training together.

We truly deliver our basic training program largely through facilitated, small group instruction. We've been so successful with it, and it is so unique, that we have academies across the United States that come to us and try to see what we want. To see what we're doing now.

We joined up under the buddy system, but we were only together for a few weeks,

Most of the officers have put in two years and have done a miraculous job of organizing the booster program and helping the band program raise money for various projects. I will forever be indebted to them for the support they have given me.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

How do you have a training program in stem cell biology if you don't have the mentors?