On June 16, I left my San Francisco home of three years and moved to Southern Alabama to be with my fiancé, who at that point, was in the beginnings of flight school. Stepping off that plane in the Alabama summer heat, I’ve never felt so many emotions. I was ecstatic that, after four years apart, my fiancé and I would finally have our first home together. I was terrified that I had just quit my job at Google and didn’t have a clue what I’d do for work. But most of all, I was so nervous about meeting people and finding my first battle buddies. Would it be difficult to find friends?