{"id":12220,"date":"2018-01-01T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubesmart.com\/blog\/?p=12220"},"modified":"2023-11-07T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T14:24:23","slug":"inside-the-service-of-fernando-reyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.cubesmart.dev\/blog\/real-life\/inside-the-service-of-fernando-reyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Service of Fernando Reyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fernando<\/p>\n

This is one of a series of stories we are sharing to show what\u2019s inside CubeSmart. You not only get a peek inside our customer\u2019s storage unit, but also a peek inside what is important to them. Thank you to\u00a0Fernando, customer of our CubeSmart store in Washington D.C., \u00a0for sharing his story with us.<\/em><\/p>\n

An active-duty Navy helicopter pilot, Fernando Reyes has just moved to D.C. to live with his wife Catherine and work for the Pentagon. Today, he\u2019s signing up for a CubeSmart storage space at 1701 Florida Avenue in Washington D.C.<\/a> as he transfers his personal belongings from San Diego.<\/p>\n

Fernando is no stranger to self-storage or packing and unpacking. \u201cIn the military you learn how to downsize to whatever is necessary, whatever fits into a state room, so you end up learning how to live without creature comforts and you leave stuff with your family or friends or in storage units.\u201d<\/p>\n

After attending the Naval Academy, he enrolled in flight school and has been flying helicopters for 14 years. \u201cIt\u2019s something I always wanted to do,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s basically been my dream since childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since completing his training he\u2019s been deployed all over the world: South America, the Middle East, and most recently, the South China Sea and Sea of Japan outside the Korean operating area. \u201cEach deployment has its own challenges. My last one, outside of Korea, was the most challenging based on all the tension in that region right now. It added a different dynamic than what I was used to.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also served on the USS Pittsburgh and the USS Carlson, both on the North Iranian Gulf. He\u2019s happy to be in the United States now, most of all because he got married a year ago and is finally just now able to live with Catherine.<\/p>\n

They first met on base in San Diego; she\u2019s a nurse midwife working in military hospital settings. \u201cThat makes her life a little more quote-unquote normal but she got ordered to DC right after we met and we\u2019ve been apart for a while,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen you\u2019re married you get preferential treatment and they try to station you within 50 miles of one another. We knew that in DC there would be opportunities for both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The long distance and time apart was challenging, Fernando says. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to say in 12 months we\u2019ll do this or that but in real life, emotions get involved and 12 months feels a lot more daunting than you expect, even six months in. Right after we married I had to deploy\u2014we knew it was happening and tried to plan around it but on paper it all seems a lot simpler than it is in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now they\u2019re moving in together to the house that Catherine has set up, where they plan to stay for at least the next two years. \u201cWe\u2019re in our thirties so we\u2019ve both had our own lives and our own stuff we have to merge together. But also being in our thirties means we\u2019re looking ahead to having a family and growing older together, to changing our priorities to put each other\u2019s needs first. That\u2019s the good part.\u201d<\/p>\n

We’d love to hear how self storage has positively impacted your life. Share your #HumansofSelfStorage story in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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