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Personal Narrative: My Service In The Military
My service in the military these past five years has provided of me a great number of skills. One skill in which I excel in is general business and maximizing work practices. At any given time, I would have at least 8 subordinates who I trained and had to divide out tasks to each of them. Another skill which I acquired while being in the military is being able to lead and creating accountability. This skill I used daily, making sure all 8 of my subordinates were at work in a timely matter, even if I had to go the extra mile by picking them. A job title that I held in the military was Information Assurance Security Officer. With this job title, I was responsible for making sure all 200 users on the network were compliant with all necessary

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