The Army has taught me how to be resourceful.

Col. Douglas Wheelock walks you through how he had to use the problem-solving skills he gained in the Army during a recent spacewalk.

I'll be launching next May, May 30th of 2010 and I'll be the commander of Expedition 25 aboard the International Space Station. And I'll have a team of six and so probably the two most important things that the Army has taught me is small unit leadership. How to be a leader in a small unit setting and then coupled with that the other thing that the Army has taught me is how to be resourceful when it comes to problem solving.

But all of that, I learned all that problem solving and going out and tackling the task, which seemed impossible just hours prior to that, was much like the situations I'd seen in the small units in the Army and I was thankful for the greatest gift that the Army had given me, a problem-solving mind, and how to take limited resources and just my small team and come up with a very elegant, eloquent solution.