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Pursuing My Military Career
Many times when I was young my, parents often took me on tours to military museums like the battleship Texas and the USS Lexington; maybe that’s where I got an interest in the military, or perhaps when my parents took me to the airshow to watch the supersonic jets fly by in a roaring screech. Nevertheless no matter what got me into the military, it always had and always will have a lasting impact on my personality and decisions. For example one of my main reason is to serve my country in whatever way I can.
As I worked hard to prepare myself for service, I had to learn what I wanted to do. From visiting the airshows, naval ships along with talking to veterans and active duty, I have learned that I wanted to be a pilot in the military. So do
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True, many of my leadership positions are just merely put you impute in on what is best of the program; on the other hand my leadership opportunities through sea cadets has been character building. The most Humbling part of my sea cadet career was when I was placed as the bravo yeoman for a recruit boot camp. As the training not only test our leadership, but also the mental fortitude of the cadets. One of the recruits was suicidal and over halfway though the training. I was honestly scared that I wouldn’t be able to handle it, that I would fail and he would go home and commit suicide. I couldn’t let that happen, so I did what any other leader would do, tell my superiors and try to calm him down. And it worked he finished the training with his head held high. No other leadership weather I’m the vice president of FFA or the president of theater club, no other organization can give experience like that and the funny thin is in an environment like that I thrived even if I was scared I adapted, over came and

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