Army Reserve Officer Research Paper
Jesus Martinez
Why do you want to become an Army Reserve officer?
During my time in high school, both inside and outside of school, I often had the reoccurring thoughts of a necessity to go somewhere with my life. During my senior year of high school I began to realize as any young man that comes to that part of life that I was about to begin to make choices on their own for the first time. I was the first in my family to be getting an education past high school and the pressure was on me to further my studies and like the son of immigrant workers I was expected to go above and beyond the point where my parents arrived. I was all for going to school and getting a degree but then reality struck and I had to begin to think of ways of paying …show more content…
for college. I had a teacher who was retired Air Force who was always criticizing Millenials for wanting free college and he said "Back when I was around your age if you wanted free school you had to sign up for the military". A few days later my mother came home with a recruiter card for the Army and asked me to give them a call and to think the decision over. Then suddenly everything in my head clicked I knew this one the path that I needed to take. I enlisted as a 91J which is a quartermaster and chemical equipment repairer and up to this point have completed a year in service. During that year and during my time in training I noticed a great respect for officers and how they always seemed calm and collected.
I never had a problem with being a mechanic but I feel I have a greater potential to "do things", to actually have decision making skills to change what I felt needed to be changed. As an E1 and even up to this point as an E3 I have seen many of my peers fooling around and have seen those higher above me stagnant in their positions and I don't want that to be me. I want to not only be able to grow as an individual and consistently try to improve myself and my career, I want to be able to bring those around me up with me as best as I can. Hopefully if one day I manage to become a commander of a unit I'll be able to make the changes that I feel need to me made because the soldiers and the Army that I have seen from the bottom looking up and from the inside out is but a shell of its former glory. I'm not saying I'd be able to change the Army overnight. I know I would have to work a long time and on a small scale to slowly improve this force as a whole, but I feel given the opportunity I would be able to make a great leader and demonstrate by example to the soldiers following after me. In short I would like to be an officer in order to grow as a person, to display what it means to be a leader, and to help those around me who also
make up a part of the great force we know to be the United States Army.
Why do you want to become an Army Reserve officer?
During my time in high school, both inside and outside of school, I often had the reoccurring thoughts of a necessity to go somewhere with my life. During my senior year of high school I began to realize as any young man that comes to that part of life that I was about to begin to make choices on their own for the first time. I was the first in my family to be getting an education past high school and the pressure was on me to further my studies and like the son of immigrant workers I was expected to go above and beyond the point where my parents arrived. I was all for going to school and getting a degree but then reality struck and I had to begin to think of ways of paying …show more content…
for college. I had a teacher who was retired Air Force who was always criticizing Millenials for wanting free college and he said "Back when I was around your age if you wanted free school you had to sign up for the military". A few days later my mother came home with a recruiter card for the Army and asked me to give them a call and to think the decision over. Then suddenly everything in my head clicked I knew this one the path that I needed to take. I enlisted as a 91J which is a quartermaster and chemical equipment repairer and up to this point have completed a year in service. During that year and during my time in training I noticed a great respect for officers and how they always seemed calm and collected.
I never had a problem with being a mechanic but I feel I have a greater potential to "do things", to actually have decision making skills to change what I felt needed to be changed. As an E1 and even up to this point as an E3 I have seen many of my peers fooling around and have seen those higher above me stagnant in their positions and I don't want that to be me. I want to not only be able to grow as an individual and consistently try to improve myself and my career, I want to be able to bring those around me up with me as best as I can. Hopefully if one day I manage to become a commander of a unit I'll be able to make the changes that I feel need to me made because the soldiers and the Army that I have seen from the bottom looking up and from the inside out is but a shell of its former glory. I'm not saying I'd be able to change the Army overnight. I know I would have to work a long time and on a small scale to slowly improve this force as a whole, but I feel given the opportunity I would be able to make a great leader and demonstrate by example to the soldiers following after me. In short I would like to be an officer in order to grow as a person, to display what it means to be a leader, and to help those around me who also
make up a part of the great force we know to be the United States Army.