Amy McGrath

I'm going to tell you a quick sea story from my time in the military.

If you don't think there's going to be problems with a massive change to voting in America with regards to people who have changed their names, you've never been to the DMV.

Right.

Or the Social Security office.

OK, you've never tried to change your name while working in a huge federal government agency like we have.

So when I was a Marine, I was in probably, I don't know, 12 or 13 years when I got married.

The Marine Corps is a small service.

Much smaller than the Air Force.

There are pros and cons with changing your name.

And so I tried to weigh the pros and cons because I wasn't really sure, Nicole, whether I wanted to change my last name.

I had built a reputation in the fighter community, which in the Marine Corps is a small fighter community.

And your name means everything.

Yes.

And on the same side, though, I was very dedicated to my husband.

I grew up Catholic, you know, pretty conservative families.

I wanted to take his name.

You know, that was sort of I was struggling here.

But what made me decide not ultimately not to change my name, my last name in the Marine Corps was when I went to.

in to the admin.

It was like a consolidated admin building.