Military Training Experience Essay

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Newberg.session1.journal. Two of the experiences in my life that influenced me in more ways than I realized were during my time in Basic Military Training (BMT) and my technical school for the Air Force. What I thought was just going to be testing me physically turned out to be the complete opposite. My time in BMT was mostly academic with a little bit of physical challenge. I attended classes every day and studied the material for the end-of-course exam (EOC). After the 8 weeks of basic training, I took the EOC. I was so nervous to take the test and I did the one thing we were warned not to do: I went back and changed my answers. I ended up failing the EOC by one question. When I was told I failed, I was called into the Military Training Instructor’s (MTI) office with one other Airman. My MTI looked at me and said, “I’m not surprised you failed,” and then looked at the other Airman and told him, “I’m shocked …show more content…

After BMT, I had a three month break-in-training before my technical school. During those three months, I was hard on myself for not doing well on the EOC. When I got to technical school, I told myself I was not going to fail and feel the way I did during BMT. I took five exams during this school. One by one the exams came upon me and not only did I pass, but I was scoring well. I achieved scores in the high 90’s and I even scored 100% on one test. On graduation day, the military training leader handed out badges and berets which set our field apart from the rest of the Air Force. Next, awards were handed out. I and four other out of ninety-five received the award of distinguished honor graduate; only the top five percent of the class received this award. These events will be a reminder during my time at CCU that I do not have to believe what people say about me or how I feel about myself at times, and that I have what it takes to persevere and take on challenges I never thought I

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