Joining the Corps of Cadets is the one action that led me to where I am today. If I could go back, I would do it again. Ironically, the results of this action are far different than I expected them to be. Everyone can look back to how naive they once were. In high school, I thought I had it all figured out. I was ready to get out of my hometown and in College Station. Soon, I would graduate and take on the real world. A friend of mine said he was going to join the Corps of Cadets. After researching, I saw the benefits. I joined the Corps so I could become a better person, and give myself more opportunities to be successful. All for me. Now, I look back and laugh. Joining the Corps did make me a better person. To start, the work ethic pushed
Although I grew up in a military family, I never saw myself going into a military career. Up until I was about fourteen years old, I planned on being a marine biologist in Hawaii. Sounds nice, right? Well, at the end of my eighth grade year I decided that I might as well join NJROTC, because all of my friends were doing it and it seemed okay. I have to say, looking back, I was quite naive. Joining NJROTC was the smartest and most valuable decision I have made to this day.
I have learned how to accept supervision better. I am showing concern for others more than normal, and I have met great people who I can really consider as mentors for me later in life. These people have changed me and helped me see the brighter things in life. Coming to Job Corps is probably the best thing that I have ever done because I was not able to do anything back at home before I came here and now I am getting the education and training that I need to make my dreams come true. I would really like to stay here because I am learning a lot and I have nothing else or better to do to help myself back at
My initial reason to enter the Air Force was a great way to pay for college which turned into a call of duty and a service commitment which has actively allowed me to contribute to the Air Force mission. Thus far I have led a joint force search and rescue effort and a multinational exercise to preserve freedom. As an F-15E instructor WSO and combat mission ready WSO I actively contribute to ensure our freedoms are preserved and the attacks of September 11, 2001 will never happen again.
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I had to pass jump school to attend Special Forces school where I had a slot waiting for me. I wanted to be a Special Forces ambassador in uniform so I could represent my country abroad. Special Forces trains a host nations military by teaching it essential skills. I wanted as many overseas assignments as I could get. My respect for Special Forces and my desire to be part of this elite group gave me my motivation to continue and never give up. I wanted to be in one of America’s best units.
So completing the rank of Eagle Scout has been has been one of the greatest things I've accomplished because of its effect it has taught me many basic life skills that are important to be successful, it has given me the edge in the modern job market, it has also given me great people to look up to in the chance to be looked up to. This has been one of the greatest effects of a decision of
There was an event in my life that sort of changed me and that was ROTC because it’s about the military. I joined it because I want to be a marine and go fight for our rights and next to our county. This class has taught me discipline and respect, they have taught me the way of the marine. They taught me to bring credits to my family, county, and schools, to conduct myself of what I need to do to proceed. I have much more respectful and I’m not a kid anymore. I still have a couple habits that I need to change to go into the marines but I know they’ll change. When I’m in this class it makes me want to teach it because the world would be a better place. I really like that I was taught this because it’s going to help me suicide in life, it’s going
As far back as I can remember I have had the desire to one day become an officer in the military and to serve the United States. I was raised to appreciate the incredible freedom and liberty American’s enjoy, and to understand how fortunate I am to be born in America. America needs great leaders and I am convinced there is no better path to cultivating the next generation of leaders than through the Army ROTC program. My goal is to become an ROTC cadet.
Over the four years that I have spent at Good Counsel, I became part of many activities. Each helping me evolve as a person and become stronger yet. Simple lists could be made of every activity that I have ever been involved in but it could never express to a person what I have learned and how it helped me to grow. Every environmental club, science club, political science club, service work, and S.A.D.D. club I was part of had a very special message to deliver to me. Whether the message was one of responsibility, or a life lesson, I grew from it. The Political Science club opened me to many new experiences. It allowed me the chance to attend the Model U.N., where I was asked to address today's top world issues. This club was very beneficial to me because I was exposed to topics and ideas that I had not previously been able to discuss or learn about in a classroom situation. The science club allowed for me to experience extra educational situations as well. I took part in a hovercraft competition, which was very educational while also allowing me the chance to work with others for a common goal.
I chose this article because I can especially relate to it. After I am done college, I will be signing up for the military, but not sure what branch yet. When you go to the recruiter’s office, they are like businessmen saying anything that you want to hear, because their job is on the line if you don’t end up joining. They are everywhere, high schools, colleges, and even around town. They give out free t-shirts, pens, and video games all to lure you in to joining. Recruitment is even harder today than ever before. The military use to be the place you learned a trade, nowadays men and women are heading to college where they can get the education they need. The military is no longer stressed as a...
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
While in high school, I joined junior ROTC. The professional nature of the instructors, the discipline, the uniforms and the deep seated military traditions all appealed to me. I had decided almost immediately that I would be enlisting in the Army after high school. I told no one initially, as I was supposed to go to college. I was attending Renaissance High School, a public, yet select college preparatory school and without question the premier high school in the city. Renaissance students all graduated and nearly all attended college. Enlisting was an easy sell to my father, less so with my mother, who I assured I would eventually attend college and the Army would
Since the time I was young, my grandfather instilled in me a deep respect and love for my country. I learned that we had freedom because many people would put on a uniform and risk their lives for our country to defend it. My grandfather told me about several people in my family who died while in service to this country and from a young age I wanted to be like them. I knew it was important to fight for our freedom and for our wonderful country like the many people in my family before me. My grandfather, who was in the invasion force in Japan during world war two is a big part of why I want to be an Army officer.
The Air Force has been a life shaping institution for me as it has been for many others. The demands and opportunities inherent to military service have given me the chance to grow and develop as an individual and team member. From the age of five, I wanted to be a fighter pilot. But as I grew up, my dream remained the same while my motivations changed greatly. Once I entered the Air Force, the experiences that I had serving were profound and life changing and my current assignment affords me the opportunity to use that experience in a joint environment to shape the way that the Army and the Air Force integrate. While the steps along the way have been many and varied, upon reflection I can see that the common thread throughout has been the ideal of service before self.
I took an oath at age 17 to be a part of an enormous family by joining the Michigan Army National Guard. I decided to join for many different reasons, but the main reason was the path I saw myself taking wasn’t a good one. I have always been interested in a job that kept you on your toes and wasn’t the same nine to five that the majority of people despise working.