Personal Narrative: A Career In The Marine Corps

Everyone knows that a soldier is someone that has made the ultimate sacrifice. By that I mean someone that has gave up being with family and friends to go and help the world. However, being a civilian may be difficult at times, it does not even compare. The responsibilities of a solders can be challenging, rewarding and yet demanding. As a United States Soldier, fighting for our country, both home and abroad, we are considered as a band of brothers, well some may even call it a family whom incorporate the antic of military first, family second and accountability fits into the category as top priority. Within the United States, the importance of keeping our patrons safe and free of any potential threats that can be a risk to safety is also near

I went pre-med before getting deployed and as an intern I've seen a lot of horrible things. But when it's your friend... Someone you serve with... It stays with you forever.

I was in the Marine Corps serving under Third battalion Eleventh marines Mike Battery in Twenty-Nine Palms California from 2009-2013. What our unit did was put rounds down range, oorah. We were an artillery battery, think modern day cannons. As far as twenty-nine palms all you have to imagine is sand in a five hundred square foot mile area. My job as Ammo chief was to insure the safe handling and transportation of hundred pound high explosive bombs. On one partially long training exercise I was instructed to take my marines and four ‘7-ton’ trucks and go to the rear to load up with more ammo. No problem, I’ve done this before but on this occasion when I was going to return the battery would have moved positions. So they gave me the grid number

With every organization comes a degree of change. The Marine Corps is no different. With a rapidly changing world, we must strive to sustain the transformation and remain true to our ethos. Across the Marine Corps the culture of each unit is different, with sustaining the transformation as our tool we can make each unit better for new generations of Marines. Marine Raider Training Center sustains the transformation by holding quarterly promotion panels to ensure deserving promotions; however it fails to sustain the transformation by not welcoming new Marines to the unit appropriately, I will build a Welcome Aboard package to sustain the transformation for my Marines.

It was the year of 2023 I just got out of San diego Marine corps Infantry training. I work with the L.A.V squad team. I shot the light machine gun on the top of are vehicle Some what known as a rifleman. We are the first to go into a war zone to check it out before we all go into fight.

In five years I see myself as either a Sargent or Corporal in the United States Marine Corps. Being 22 years old I will be in the first year of my second enlistment providing that I do not get NJP’d (non-judicial punishment) or something else dumb that I might get myself into. I look forward to joining the Marine Corps because of my long family military history and my extent of being a child of a military father. I plan on either being in the MOS (military occupational service) 1142 or 1345. I see myself having a degree by the end of those five years from online schooling while overseas on deployment or at my current duty station. Providing that I am a Sargent I will send in a request form in to become a DI (drill instructor) and then hopefully

I never know the best way to start these things so I’ll start by saying I am a 23 year veteran of the U.S. Military. It started in 1992 when I enlisted in the Marine Corps immediately following high school. I served on active duty for 5 years and transferred to the Marine Corps Reserves while I attended College. I earned an Associate’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from NH Technical Institute in 1997 and worked as an Electronics Technician for MARKEM Corporation from 1997 – 2007. During this time I enlisted in the NH Army National Guard and subsequently attended Officer Candidate School and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 2001. I transferred to the MA National Guard in 2001 and attended flight school in 2003. I earned my Bachelor’s

I’ll never forget the day, stepping off that bus, and lining up on those yellow footprints. I had arrived to Marine Corps boot camp in January 2007 at the age of 17. Feelings of nervousness, excitement and even a little fear, were all setting in simultaneously. The round hatted Drill Instructors informed me and the new enlistees that we no longer had names, and were now called “Recruit”. At the time, I was still wet behind the ears and did not know much about life, yet I thought I did. Joining the United States Marine Corps was the beginning of my transformation from a boy to a man.

I joined the Marine Corps looking for a challenge. I wanted to open doors for a new career and longed to have a positive impact on the world around me. Looking back five years later, I realize I found all that I originally sought, but I’ve also found something profoundly satisfying and meaningful that I never knew I was missing.

I’m a United States Navy Sailor. I’ve been blessed to partake in countless experiences that I otherwise would not have enjoyed had I not joined the Navy. I also enjoy reading and researching random subjects that I take an interest in. Needless to say, I’ve acquired a great deal of knowledge of the years, some from observation (skydiving), some from participation (Spanish cuisine), and then a little bit of both (pneumonia).

Stumbling with the strap of my sandy brown backpack as sweat accumulates on my forehead, my neck, and any open pore on my body. The siege green shirt clinging to my petite form creating a small claustrophobic hell within myself. To whoever is out there and hears me, well you’re screwed. We are going to die. Let me give you a last minute advice: run. Run as fast as your lanky white legs can go. Run not with fear, because it will only paralyze and slow you down. Instead, run with the same passion and excitement you had when you first learned to walk. How you made yourself walk with wobbly steps to reach the happy clapping of your mother’s hands. Run with the same desperation you felt to reach her and be enveloped by her warmth; that every cell

Being a military child, you seem to always find someone to look up to. Someone that is a hero in our minds, it could be a parent, a teacher, or a friend. It does not matter who the person is because in a child’s eyes anyone can be a hero. My hero would have to be my dad. He served twenty years in the navy. My dad was absent a lot in my life because he was out serving his country. He would miss birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays. Although he missed watching my brother and I growing up, he always found a way to make up for it.

I’m born in country which to be have fallowed the religion, culture we never can step up from those things. Important from this we have social life not an Individual life at the most part of our life we have to follow our adult our family members. At the beginning 2002 one of my brother went to army, I was waist sometimes when he was in training, I try so many to go inside the training area but I was not allowed to go inside. Finally one day I went inside of the Kabul military training center, when I saw the role and discipline that was to interesting for me then. I decided to join the military in 2003.

Being a military kid always made me different to the other kids in my school. Even I were to talk to another military child, our experiences would be different. Different states, different time periods without our parents, all of us have a different story to tell. I always felt like I couldn’t talk about my life because no one would understand. And most didn’t. It was hard to move across country. It was hard to move to different schools, sometimes in between the year. It was also hard on my family, with my dad being gone for long periods of time.

In 10 years I see myself as a Marine.The work i’ll be doing is going on the battlefield and shooting like my brother.My career will be Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) Defense Specialist.The goal is important to me because I want to be like my brother.It will provide happiness and I get to help and defend my country.The thing school is helping me reach my goal is gym because it helps me work out and be more active and to never give up.