With this following essay I will be telling you how JROTC has affected my life, my goals, and my attitude. The following subjects will be sensitive to me and will deal with some issues. I will talk about why I joined and why I stayed. I hope to convey how deeply JROTC has affected my life. Please, read with an open mind and enjoy. Why I joined was a fairly simple reason. I was a brat during middle school to those around me, including my family. I didn’t like that I was a brat with little discipline, so I decided to try and shape up. When the high school councilors came to Rose Hill Middle School with the ROTC cadets I saw how prim and proper they were and I wanted that. When I went home that day saying how I wanted to join ROTC, my mother was skeptical but supportive, but it was my grandfather who drove the nail in. I don’t remember what he said, but made me want to show him I could be in JROTC. …show more content…
My health wasn’t something you would call a solid constitution or healthy. By the time I entered high school my arthritis was setting in just as some major issues with my stomach was ending. I was certain that I was going to be useless in life at the time, just wanting to go the easy road in life. When I had my first PT in ROTC I was encourage to try harder. A classmate who had suffered stomach cancer and dealt with it was running laps around me. This instant right here is what made me stay in ROTC for more than that first
Since the conflict in Vietnam ended, the military has been an all-volunteer force. This means that generally people are in the military because they want to serve, albeit the motivation for service can vary across a wide spectrum of reasons.
The years in Jrotc was good. Because I manage to be a better person. My freshman year was hard because I really didn’t know what to expect from this program. I was so confusing because I didn’t know much what Jrotc was but I got introduced into good friends. But my First Year instructor was SGM Cooper he help me a lot within my first year because he told me how to wear the uniform. And he taught how to help myself to build characteristic that I thought I never thought I had. But my freshman year was over all good cause I got more sense what JROTC had to really offer for me and I thought I had a future in the military. My sophomore year was better because I had more sense and I was a upper class I was finally let 2 so I had to teach the let
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It gives cadets a hands-on experience of the real world. This program has taught me how to work with others. JROTC program has made me feel more confident in school and also for my college. I can identify a negative situation now and also try to take precautions for it or prevent it. Also, I can help my group work together and complete a task such as guiding the training session in JROTC. I have also tried to encourage my school mates to consider taking their education seriously, thus making their future better. I do believe, JROTC is a great experience if you really get yourself involved in it. It helps us mold our future, and our community's future
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Every day of my life I have woken up to the sound of Reveille, and gone to bed listening to Taps. I have moved nine different times, know the feeling of having my dad deploy more than four times, and eating Thanksgiving dinner in a DEFAC is second-nature to me. Being an army child is a huge part of my life, however it does not define who I am; it has shaped how I view the world. Because of my life as a military child, I have determined that I am compelled to positively influence how others view life.
There has been an uncanny situation that let my interest into the naval services. Knowing that I am not truly from here it disturbs the fact I am always looked down at, especially since I am a young women. However, my beliefs in this country have inspired me to believe that there’s more than just working all my life, that there’s those who protect and serve it. My interest sparked when I joined my JROTC program at my high school. My JROTC program inspired me to become the person I never thought I would be; a leader. Being able to lead and help others as something that I realized I was good at. Going from the lowest cadet rank to the battalion commander taught me that time, respect and patience brings a better citizen out one self. Adjacent
Keith Nolan discovered he had a real chance of joining the army when he enrolled in the ROTC program. He talks about how happy it made him to have a
Campbell’s essay gives an insight into a life of a misunderstood person. Ultimately, his essay proved his happiness and braveness about deciding to join the United States Army Reserve, even though he had his share of doubts. This writer told a personal story in which he used effective examples, had clear coherence throughout his essay, and had a great organizational skills, thus making this personal essay strong.
I joined JROTC because my parents thought that it would teach me discipline and learn leadership skills. I was born Oct. 28. 1998 in Newport News, VA. My father is in the Army has been in the military for about 18 years. He is currently a Captain and deployed to Korea and won't be back until February. My mother works in a nursing home and works third shift. She was born and raised in Columbia SC. I have three brothers and sisters, I am the oldest out of all of them my sister Kayla is 15, my brother Jordan is 12 and my youngest sister is 9. My role model has always been Harriet Tubman because she was a slave and a had a horrible accident that made her fall asleep at random times. She is influential because with one person she helped more that
I have been blessed to have led a highly fulfilling career over the past 22 years. The Air Force’s standards of conduct and performance have helped me mature into an adult while creating lasting memories along the way. I have had the opportunity to make significant contributions to my country that offer a sense of pride and personal achievement. My current duties allow me to directly contribute to the Air Force and Joint arena on an almost daily basis. Joining the Air Force helped me to realize I had undertaken a task bigger than myself.
When I was seventeen I nervously traveled about 350 miles from my sleepy little home town of Freedom, Wyoming to the relatively enormous city of Boise, Idaho to go to the Military Entrance Processing Station. This wasn 't the first time I had been this far from home by myself, but it was the first time I was making adult decisions without my parents involvement. When it came time for me to choose my job in the army the counselors presented me with a long list that I qualified for. I got tired of scrolling and reading so I chose the first job that I actually understood. I returned home and excitedly told my parents that I would be an infantry soldier. My dad 's response to this might be considered a little less than heart warming “You dumb ass. Why didn 't you choose
I know people who joined the military to make the United States a safer place to live. Many of my friends have parents who willingly joined the military. These people are very passionate on what they do and do it for a great cause. These parents want to make a country safe for their family so they work very hard to make the country safer. If a person was forced they would just want to go back home instead of making home a safe
Throughout my life there has been many events that have shaped the way I am. The one event that had the greatest impact and has been constant is my military career. Since I joined the military I have changed roles, conformed to new norms, and learned new values. Like most service members the parts that shape your military career is the beginning, so as a focus I will look at my basic training, technical school and first duty station which these three combined events in my life has shaped the last 14 years. Through these phases in my life I have learned a lot about the military society, society in the United States, the world and of course me.
The day I finally signed up to join the military I knew I was taking a risk in my life. I believe it is important to take risks in life to move into bigger and better things. My first huge decision I made in my life was to join the United States Air Force. My uncle was the main person who put the idea in my head but my dad and my friends thought otherwise. My parents were divorced when I was young and I didn’t have the privilege like my friends to sit down and talk their decisions through with their parents. My father was excluded from the draft after he got in a car accident and I didn’t think he was very fond me joining the service. The main reason I chose to go into the military was make the decision to serve the country. The major decision in my opinion to join the military is to have the privilege to serve your own country. I think it is great for young men and woman to have ambition to serve and it can change a person into very motivated individual. My uncle and my mother were both very supportive and thought that it would be a great decision in my life. My mother knew it would be hard to see me go but was excited of the idea of coming to visit me in Texas. I knew it was taking a big risk being on my own but I was ready for a change in my life.