President Obama was elected as president the day I got to basic training. I got to fort leonardwood at 3:30am on November 5, 2008 and the first thing they told us was Obama was our new commander in chief. Fast forward to the summer of 2009 and I was stationed in Kaiserslautern Germany, I was selected to be on Obama’s QRF team while he was visiting the country. It was an honor to serve under him. Also,as a LGBTQ service member I’ll always be grateful to him for getting rid of don’t ask don’t tell