Curious to know, what made you join the military?

I suppose you could say that I too joined the military because of my father. I spent as much time away from our home as possible to stay away from him. As a result, I developed a taste for adventuring. I explored the woods and fields around my home. As a Sea Scout, I sailed the Chesapeake Bay. During summer vacations I virtually lived at the Baltimore Yacht Club where we kept our boats and crewed for yacht club members. When I graduated from college and law school the Vietnam War was really heating up and it looked like a grand adventure to me, so I enlisted and wasn't disappointed.

I always wanted to go into the military. I heard stories from other family of when they went in and the wars and I was awkwardly anyway. I was the only red head in my small town school so I was fighting every day anyways. Lived and worked on a ranch my whole life so I was weirdly strong for a woman. And I wanted to escape my family since I’m a product of the Jones and Smith’, I’ll leave it ag that with that reason. I want able to join at first because I was a solid kid and was 10 pounds heavier then the weight allowed when I turned 18. So after a few tries I finally gave up and then 9/11 happened and I was able to get in with a Somoan weight waiver lol.... turns out I’m a solid bone and muscle mass. They also needed a lot of people in the Intel field and my ASVAB score was rediculous I had me take it 3 times once on paper because they said I cheated. Eye roll. Not sure how that possible when there staring at you the whole time. And each sequence test was out of order. But I eventually passed everything and off I went. Best and worst eight years of my life, and I wouldn’t change a thing.

Thank you for your service SSG (Join to see) and posting an engaging post.

Well wishes

Family trend, and I needed someone to jerk a knot in my tail badly.