Personal Narrative: Moving Up To The 18U Vs. Legion

It’s the day I have to move to the army's campsite. I grab my bag and swing them on my shoulder, it weighs a ton it feels like my shoulder’s gonna break. Sophie was peeking through my room door, as I was about to stand up she ran to the living room curled up into a ball making loud thud and sobbing noises. Outside of the house, I hug my mom as tight as I could, I don’t want to move any single inch of my bone. I want to stay like this forever. I felt a drop of water behind my shoulder and I know that it was her tears. I don’t want to leave them but I have to. It was time to let go but she didn’t want to, I grab her arm and slightly push them back.

The most challenging aspect I have found about being a leader and Soldier in the Army is finding balance between Army life and life outside of my career. As a father and a husband, I have to consciously make time for the other factors in my life. Since I have spent an average of my adult life more at work than at home, whether deployed or in garrison, I have formed lasting bonds with peers, superiors and subordinates alike. It is a delicate balance to ensure that I am creating similar bonds with my 10 and 16 year old boys, who live with their mother, while continuously strengthening my bond with my wife. Although this balance remains a challenge, I have found that by anticipating various reactions to my words and actions that I am choosing to say what I actually mean. That simple process has positive impacts on my continuing effort to build resiliency. I also make it a point to “hunt the good stuff” and focus on the positive aspects of my life rather than the things that cause me to stress. I find that positive communication and exercise are also good releases for me and helps me to feel less overwhelmed.

I had a lot of fun this summer and overall I could say this is one of my best summers. I did a lot of things over the summer, it was all baseball we would alway have games and it did not feel like we had a break. For a tournament we went to Jacksonville, Illinois for a baseball tournament and i had a blast! Even though we came in 3rd and did not win, we still did stuff after the games like swim, play PS4, and much more. Another thing I did was going to South bend Indiana and go to a South Bend Cubs game which is a minor league team for the Cubs. While we were up there we also stopped at Notre Dame and walked around and looked at the campus. We were going to look at the football stadium, but it was under construction. I thought that the campus

This summer, I did many things. I took a day trip up to Michigan a couple times with relatives, one to Saugatuck, one to St. Joseph. I also built a zombie survival crate. On the subject of zombies, I also bought Call of Duty: Black Ops and COD: Black Ops 2, which have a game mode called Zombies. Finally, I slept, a lot, except around the 4th of July, because I like fireworks. The best part of my summer is purchasing my airsoft AK-47 and understanding the sciences in airsoft.

What I did this summer. That`s a good question to be honest, I did a lot of things that were considered fun for me, like shopping, hanging out with my family, hanging out with my friends, going to the beach, the water park and much more. But I will only break it down to two or three of my favorite things I did this Summer, so stick around to see what my favorite things about this Summer were.

This summer was full of tons of fun activities and places! I went to Tennessee, Mackinac Island, the lake, and went camping. I also did other things like shopping, the fair, the movies, and cheer camp! Something very big that happened this summer is that I became a big sister! Even though becoming a big sister is very memorable, my favorite part of summer was going Mackinac Island and I have so many great memories there that I can’t wait to tell you about!

Then there were 12 more days until school. So that meant time for School shopping. I had a great summer. It was very fun I got to hang out with friends at the touch of the Dutch festival in Demonte. I got to rearrange my room like puts things in different places around my room. The other thing I did was sleep in and I went to Wisconsin with my mom’s family it was really fun in Wisconsin. I got a new dog and her name is Jipzy she is a Bullmastiff. So that was my summer I think It was pretty

During the summer vacation I mostly helped my mother clean the house. I spent the holiday with my aunts and uncles and it was a lot of fun. I love taking photos as well, when I was in the 6th grade I took a photography course at school and I took many beautiful pictures.

So that was what I did over the summer besides for watch TV, play basketball, and eat pizza. I had a pretty fun summer, but I would have liked it better if we went to more

On the early morning of April 19th, my husband left to gather with the militia. I being worried could not go back to sleep and awaited by the window from time to time. The children were still asleep and out of the corner of my eyes, I see at least a couple hundred of lobsterbacks. I was frightened and crouched making sure I wasn’t seen. Oh how my heart beated, and I am ashamed to remind myself that the militia fired. Perhaps out of fear, but they fired. Immediately there was movement until my eyes could see, running, shooting, bloodshed. As soon as I saw the Regulars marching, and the house being so near to all the commotion I ran to the children and hoped they wouldn’t burn the house down. I was prepared, nervous for the life of my husband

This summer was an alright summer besides my sister getting lost and two people drowning. On the bright side, I got to go on many rides and water parks and spend time with my cousins. In all of this, I learned to keep your loved ones near because one day they might disappear. Hopefully the next summers to come will be better than this

I went to Disney World we went with my aunt, grandma and grandpa. We went on lots of fun rides I really enjoyed it. Another summer we started PKSA karate I am still doing it today.

My army career was right on track. I had been in the army 3 years at this point, coming up on 4, and already had completed air assault school, been awarded my expert infantry badge, and had one 15 month deployment under my belt. I was assigned to the scout platoon sniper section and was waiting for a sniper school packet to get final approval from the company commander. I had been studying for the sergeant promotion board for months. I knew that study guide like the back of my hand, I knew whatever question I was asked by the command sergeant major I would have an answer for. I went to the promotion board that morning and blew it out of the water. My dress uniform was perfect. No one was able to find a single deficiency. The soldiers creed

Summer is my favorite time of the year, but this year It felt like summer was two minutes long. It was most likely because of all the fun I was having playing baseball and hanging out with friends and family. The highlight of my summer was my trip to Puerto Rico. It was beautiful, the smell of the trees, the weather, and the beaches.

That summer after sixth grade went pretty fast,it was mainly filled with on and off training with the high school varsity football team.We would do drills every weekday in July until August 9, that’s when I was on my own, it was football season. The first day of school was a little hard being in a new school and