Three years ago I started a position where I became the local leading member of a projects team. Upper management was at corporate two hours away and I was left in charge of local operations regarding quality projects in two factories. At first, I acted primarily as a supervisor for the group. I would watch and help other team members, but after about a year I moved into a quasi-manger role. Since then, I receive the tasks that need to be completed from upper management and delegate the tasks accordingly based on each member’s strengths and weaknesses. In this role I have been able to mature my abilities as a leader by gaining the invaluable skills of project planning, task delegation, conflict resolution, time management, and public speaking. I would be able to carry this directly into my role as an officer, after all the most important trait in an officer is leadership. Throughout this period I have been very sure to live an increasingly healthy lifestyle. In high school cross-country I won all-region and all-county honors at the varsity level as well a Junior Olympic event championship at the state level in 2010. In college, I played multiple intramural sports and was team captain for Ultimate Frisbee …show more content…
If I become an officer in the Navy I will continue to hold this view as I believe that an officer should always push himself and lead by example. An officer must know when to lead, when to follow, and when to stand aside. I learned this during a volunteer service trip rebuilding tornado stricken homes in Alabama. I realized that a leader only becomes a good leader when he, too, is following. A good leader follows his morals and what he believes is right, and retains his honor above all else. I believe that I would serve the military well, but I also believe the military would serve me well. My grandfather and uncle were in the Navy and cultivated a grand image of the service in me from a young age, an image that I want to pass down to the generations after me. I want to have that same strong sense of pride that they had and I envy their loyalty. I want to work for change on a global scale and to be pushed and challenged, mentally and physically, on a daily basis. I do not want a life of complacency with the same futile redundancy every day, I want a life of meaning and adventure. I want to be constantly pushed outside of and growing my comfort zone and I want to serve alongside a group of like-minded, motivated men and women. I