This particular tee-shirt is all about fitness, endurance, and determination. My time at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar was very filling and the mission was all consuming. One of the few ways to de-stress was through exercise. We were working 24 hour shifts when we pulled duty crew. We would go directly from a medical mission to duty crew. This entailed 24 hours of launching and recovering medical crews, picking up medical equipment, and configuring aircraft. At 98% humidity on the flightline we really got a workout. The duty crew was followed by 12 hours of crew rest. From there, we went to crew alert and, hopefully, we were alerted for another medical mission into Iraq. Once we completed our mission we went right back into duty crew. Needless to say, there were a lot of 12 hour crew rest cycles over the 4 month period that I was there. Several of us had a routine set up. During this time, we would spend our mornings at the gym, our afternoons studying professional development courses, and our evenings running and walking across the base. Originally, my goal was to achieve the 100 mile tee-shirt. Once I reached that goal, I needed another goal. Hence, the 200 mile tee-shirt followed. Towards the end of the tour I was determined to receive the 300 mile tee-shirt. During those last few weeks most of my free time was spent either on the treadmill or trekking across the base to earn miles towards the final tee-shirt. This tee-shirt represents a quest for fitness, the endurance to achieve additional goals in the face of adversity, and the determination to go the extra mile to achieve those goals.