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Joining the Military and the Positive Impact it made on my Life I can remember one of the first times I saw someone in military uniform. I was in high school and it was a university fair on campus. University and College representatives from all over came to our high school and told us about how great their university was and why we should apply to their school. At some of the other booths I saw men and women standing tall and proud with their flawless uniforms and their colorful and radiant ribbons and medals. They looked intimidating, but proud. I saw the way that the students looked at them in awe and the way it made me feel when I saw them. They were idolizing. That was something I knew I wanted. Shortly after graduating high school I went and talked to an …show more content…

He was very pushy. Eventually I chickened out from the pressure and intimidation. I got scared and didn’t think I was good enough and that I wouldn’t make it out of boot camp. Fast forward fifteen years later. In the back of my mind I still thought about joining the military as an option. I was working at a youth correctional facility and I was stuck in my current positon and could not promote without a college degree. I applied for Federal Aid to go back to school, but my application was rejected, saying I made to much money to accept the funds. I knew that I did not want any student loan debt because of all the horror stories and how much my friends were having to pay back. It’s like having another mortgage payment! I knew that if I didn’t do something that I would either just have to stay at my dead end job or go back to school and figure out the student loan dilemma. I also knew that I did not want to work in a youth correctional facility for the rest of my life either. I did not want to make that a career. I wanted to do something better, something bigger. I did some research online with the Air Force and found out that I

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