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Why Did Bob Joined In The Air Force

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There are currently 261,193 people currently enlisted in the Air Force, 276,284 who serve in the Navy, 32,647 for the Coast Guard, 456,651 in the Army, and 182,147 in the Marines, adding up to a total of 1,208,922 active and roughly 800,000 in reserves. Now despite what you may think, these people are working to keep you, your family, and friends safe. Nonetheless, there are always some people that go above and beyond and one of those people is Bob. Bobby was enlisted in 2000, straight through his high school, but a question you usually aren’t told is why he chose to. So, he joined for two reasons. One, for the jobs they offer and two because he wanted to serve a “Bigger Purpose” or “Bigger than myself”. Now you're probably pondering …show more content…

As I mentioned who he is, what he does, and why, I almost forgot where, some places are interesting and with a story, others not so much. Some of these places are South Korea, Portugal, New Mexico, Mississippi, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. But since you're most likely interested in him going to the middle east and south korea, so I will go into more detail about that, just keep in mind that this isn’t a timeline. So about one or two years ago, my uncle left to go to Afghanistan, now as you might imagine it is not one of the best places to be, in a way like Arizona 100 years ago in regards to it climate and surroundings, not including the fact that it is a violent area. While, there his main job was supervising which I already told you, but even though you might think that wouldn’t be too hard, you’re wrong. It was stressful, somewhat vexing, definitely depressing and straight up hard to be away from family. Thankfully he wasn’t always sad, like when they played pranks. For example, if someone just got out of the shower sometimes they would get powder and smack them with it in their hand, getting it everywhere. Then they would sometimes have contests to see who could eat the most hot sauce without milk or water. Sadly, there were times when not even a prank could cheer you up out there, so my uncle is almost always found himself stuck with a bit more work than he should handle and if you were to ask someone in my family, they

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